• Working in his favor: Clicker is not seen as a threat the way a Google TV is but rather as an ally for the networks because it navigates rather than hosts the content.

    FORBES: Names You Need To Know In 2011: Jim Lanzone's Clicker

  • Swift found that it wasn't the drone campaign that had swelled the ranks of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula but rather because the group was able to offer jobs to desperately poor young men.

    CNN: John Brennan, Obama's drone warrior

  • That it's just smarter politics to focus on the whole rather than the specific because you can get more things done.

    NPR: 12 min 17 sec

  • The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations by Lee Smith, is a unique and vital addition to the current debate on the Middle East because rather than interpret the Arabs through the ideological lenses of the West, Smith describes them, their cultural and political motivations as the Arabs in all their ethnic, religious, ideological, national and tribal variations themselves perceive these things.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Israel the strong horse

  • The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations by Lee Smith, is a unique and vital addition to the current debate on the Middle East because rather than interpret the Arabs through the ideological lenses of the West, Smith describes them, their cultural and political motivations as the Arabs -- in all their ethnic, religious, ideological, national and tribal variations -- themselves perceive these things.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Israel the strong horse

  • For another, the artificial fireballs seem to be glowing because of the excitation of the atoms within the vaporised material rather than because of oxidation.

    ECONOMIST: Ball lightning

  • He is special, the musicians explain, not merely because of his clarity of vision, authoritative analysis or the mysterious energy of his gestures, but rather because of the way he listens.

    ECONOMIST: Conjurors

  • This is not because the rich are gullible shoppers but rather, say the authors, because they tend to buy goods of better quality (such as organic milk), the prices of which are higher and tend to rise more quickly.

    ECONOMIST: Economics focus

  • Not for the nonsense they say about Israel but rather because of the sources they draw from and its significance in the context of the current political situation in Latin America.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Gaza Crisis and the Intellectual Left in Latin America

  • Lilly (nyse: LLY - news - people ) needs Xigris, and the revenue it could bring in, rather desperately because the company is struggling with the loss of its famed and lucrative antidepressant Prozac.

    FORBES: FDA Gives Conditional Approval To Lilly's Xigris

  • Is it possible that parent companies have stabilised and even increased local lending because of the ring fencing put in place by regulators during the crisis, rather than because of deliberate management choices?

    FORBES: Too Big To Fail Or Too Small To Maintain Stability?

  • Shareholders might want to see some of this money themselves, but Mr Zondervan dislikes the idea of a share buy-back because of its tax implications in the Netherlands, but also because he would rather spend the money.

    ECONOMIST: BolsWessanen

  • The Simpson-Bowles commission exists, or existed rather, because the President of the United States created it.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • If this little excursion was a show of force, it was not because Iran had launched a satellite but, rather, because the regime was no longer even trying to mask its coercive nature.

    NEWYORKER: Election, Monitored

  • Based on the reaction, it seems traders moved forward their expectations that the Fed would do something sooner rather than later because of the concern for contagion from Europe.

    FORBES: Bank of America's 3 Ways to Play 2012

  • Benen rightly argues that this is not because the Solyandra scandal is particularly unique or terrible, but rather because Republicans are really, really skillful at driving the news cycle.

    FORBES: Is the Media Fair and Balanced?

  • It fades after four goes not, I think, from any lack of enthusiasm for the candidate, more because the song itself is rather lame.

    BBC: Romney must work hard to win Ohio

  • Yet the report is relatively rare because, rather than dealing in the usual vague global generalisations, it concentrates on what might happen in a fairly small area.

    ECONOMIST: What happens if the Great Lakes get hotter

  • But she suspects this is in spite of raucousness in the Commons chamber rather than because of it.

    BBC: Do we really hate MPs getting rowdy?

  • This is not because government spending was falling, but rather because the private sector was growing even faster than the public sector.

    FORBES: Don't Blame Ireland's Mess on Low Corporate Tax Rates

  • States that have imposed community rating in the individual market have discovered that the total number of uninsured people rises rather than falls, because the number of older people who gain coverage due to premium reductions is more than offset by the number of younger people who drop their coverage due premiums hikes.

    FORBES: Should Your Kids Subsidize My Grandmother's Health Care?

  • But they argue that this is probably because they inadvertently consume fewer calories, rather than because of the mechanism suggested by Dr Atkins whereby the body switches from a carbohydrate-burning metabolism to a mainly fat-burning metabolism.

    ECONOMIST: Dieting

  • She said the study suggested that in people with degenerative brain diseases, memories were not erased from the brain, but rather could not be accessed because of the disease.

    BBC: NEWS | Health | Scientists 'reverse' memory loss

  • By this reasoning, it is for the US, not for Teheran, to show its sincerity, because the US, rather than Teheran, is to blame for the dismal state of relations prevailing between the two countries.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Honest Obama & Iran

  • "Whilst Waste Watch believes encouraging people to recycle is a good thing, there is also evidence that suggests self-rewarding people for good behaviours may encourage people only to act in the future if rewarded, rather than acting because they care or value society and the environment, " he said.

    BBC: Bracknell Forest residents rewarded for recycling

  • "The deal is happening now rather than at launch because Spotify is going through the process of re-learning its business, " he said.

    BBC: Deal done for Spotify downloads

  • That many of the new jobs are formal (ie, legally registered) is despite, rather than because of, the labour laws.

    ECONOMIST: Brazil's labour laws

  • I'm using the past tense because Topshop or rather Philip Green, the owner of parent company Arcadia pulled off a masterstroke when it was announced 18 months ago that British Vogue fashion director Kate Phelan would become the store's creative director.

    WSJ: Tina Gaudoin on Style: How to Wear Topshop Past 25

  • The President made a decision that the United States would withdraw some forces from Korea not because he had concluded that the United States would not use military force to defend those interests but rather because he concluded that those commitments could be met without the continued stationing of American ground forces in Korea.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Case Against the Halperin Nomination -- First Edition

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