Rather in sentence

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Rather, I build body parts, bionic legs that augment human walking and running.

Therefore, when you see a circling vulture, the bird is usually traveling from point A to B, rather than circling above something dead.

Rather than looking for the vulture, look for the feathers and pristine bones.

Our children and teachers are encouraged to follow routine algorithms rather than to excite that power of imagination and curiosity.

In the year 2000, a rather interesting thing happened.

And here, if we look at a detail of the way that the building opens up and breathes into those atria, the way in which now, with a computer, we can model the forces, we can see the high pressure, the low pressure, the way in which the building behaves rather like an aircraft wing.

The level is dropping, rather like the Aral Sea.

Picking your family is about consciously choosing who and what you want rather than just making it work or killing time with whoever happens to be choosing you.

Those of us who work in the domestic and sexual violence field know that victim-blaming is pervasive in this realm, which is to say, blaming the person to whom something was done rather than the person who did it.

My mother said that she thought I'd really rather have a blue balloon.

And I was rather taken aback.

And my last example of how constraints can boost creativity comes from the green, because this is a weird color, a crazy color, and you need to replace the green screens eventually and you must figure that out sooner rather than later.

So I want to tell you that, if you have some crazy ideas in your mind, and that people tell you that it's impossible to make, well, that's an even better reason to want to do it, because people have a tendency to see the problems rather than the final result, whereas if you start to deal with problems as being your allies rather than your opponents, life will start to dance with you in the most amazing way.

That is, abandoning our collective power to imagine our potential, falling victims to our fears, our stereotypes, our dogmas, taking our citizens out of the process rather than building the process around our citizens.

Where our common identity is democracy, where our education is through participation, and where participation builds trust and solidarity rather than exclusion and xenophobia.

Everyone who participates in this global exchange of ideas, whether it's here in this room or just outside this room or online or locally, where everybody lives, everyone who stands up to injustice and inequality, everybody who stands up to those who preach racism rather than empathy, dogma rather than critical thinking, technocracy rather than democracy, everyone who stands up to the unchecked power, whether it's authoritarian leaders, plutocrats hiding their assets in tax havens, or powerful lobbies protecting the powerful few.

George Papandreou: Well, obviously there were constraints which didn't allow me or others to make the types of decisions we would have wanted, and obviously I had hoped that we would have the time to make the reforms which would have dealt with the deficit rather than trying to cut the deficit which was the symptom of the problem.

Greg Gage: The octopus is a rather strange-looking animal that exhibits amazingly complex behaviors.

And in Libby, Montana, there's a rather unusual woman named Gayla Benefield.

So now, when insulin says to a cell, I want you to burn more energy than the cell considers safe, the cell, in effect, says, "No thanks, I'd actually rather store this energy."

So what if we're fighting the wrong war, fighting obesity rather than insulin resistance?

And finally, once we identify what safe and practical changes people can make to their diet, how can we move their behavior in that direction so that it becomes more the default rather than the exception?

The New Yorker is rather a sensitive environment, very easy for people to get their nose out of joint.

So the Party self-corrects in rather dramatic fashions.

You see, shell companies, they're central to the secret deals which may benefit wealthy elites rather than ordinary citizens.

He decided he’d rather not find out.

We're making AI more powerful, but how can we steer towards a future where AI helps humanity flourish rather than flounder?

It's much better to be proactive rather than reactive; plan ahead and get things right the first time because that might be the only time we'll get.

But Lord Acton warned us that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely, so you might worry that maybe we humans just aren't smart enough, or wise enough rather, to handle this much power.

So in summary, our situation with technology is complicated, but the big picture is rather simple.

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