• This means not checking performance day-by-day, month-by-month, quarter-by-quarter, but rather with a long-term focus.

    FORBES: Retirees Looking For Investment Income Should Try AT&T And Chevron, Among Others

  • The man was no glad-hander but rather a hard-working, hard-drinking loner who worked himself into an early grave.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • The pieces of art are his monuments to how the immigrants are not throw-away workers -- but rather integral contributors to the well-being of homes and families in America's elite communities.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • We're not putting forward an across-the-board freeze, but rather an overall cap on non-security discretionary funding in which key investments are expanded but we cut back on programs that are ineffective, duplicative, or just wasteful.

    WHITEHOUSE: Share This Post

  • English Heritage is not anti-development, but rather anti-bad development.

    ECONOMIST: London's skyline: Shame about the view | The

  • So the question may well be not so much whether we prioritise our science spending to suit our economic and social priorities - but rather - to what degree do we do this.

    BBC: How to divide up the 'science cake'?

  • The Qatari support does not appear to be going to the most hard-line militant or ultraconservative fighters, such as al-Qaida-linked Jabhat al-Nusra, but rather toward organizations with a conservative religious ideology, away from brigades with a secular or nationalist bent.

    NPR: Qatar Faces Backlash Among Rebel Groups In Syria

  • The model we tested isn't a production-line unit, but rather a hand-built exemplar for reviewers.

    ENGADGET: Gigabyte X11 review: slim and powerful but not without flaws

  • The clean suit itself is not made from particle-emitting textiles, but rather from GORE-TEX, which resembles fabric but which disperses very few particles.

    FORBES: What's It Like in a Semiconductor Fab?

  • No, these caps were not for wireless data, which is already moving away from all-you-can-eat data plans, but rather for its DSL and UVerse customers.

    FORBES: AT&T Data Cap Puts Squeeze On Netflix, AppleTV

  • Hydroponics and aeroponics - a type of hydroponics, but rather than growing in nutrient-rich water, grows in the air and the plants get sprayed with nutrients - technology is increasingly being utilised by businesses themselves.

    BBC: The technology that's transforming gardening

  • It may surprise--or even infuriate--critics, but a new study finds Wal-Mart benefits rather than harms the American economy.

    FORBES: Wal-Mart Is Good For You

  • But short-term political need, rather than long-term prosperity, is dictating Argentine policy.

    ECONOMIST: Rootling around for cash

  • Now ok, the water won't come from Welsh reservoirs - rather from boreholes beneath Birmingham - but, so the argument goes, without the Welsh water, they wouldn't have 30 million litres a day to spare for Anglian.

    BBC: Highly politicised liquid assets

  • Mr. Prime Minister, we discussed how the United States could help Iraq train and equip its forces -- not by stationing American troops there or with U.S. bases in Iraq -- those days are over -- but rather, the kind of training and assistance we offer to other countries.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama��s Press Conference with Prime Minister Maliki | The White House

  • Their new 12-day trek is not a cushy luxury jaunt, but rather a high-altitude hiking adventure where guests spend their nights camping in tents or staying in the homes of local villagers.

    FORBES: Trekking In Bhutan

  • Their new 12-day trek is not a cushy luxury trip, but rather a high-altitude hiking adventure and a cultural adventure, since guests spend their nights camping in tents or staying in the homes of local villagers, including the semi-nomadic Merak people, who hold deep animist beliefs and make their living herding sheep.

    FORBES: Trekking in Bhutan

  • Coursera intends to become a financially viable, profit-making university project - but raising income from internet traffic and add-on services, rather than directly charging users.

    BBC: Online university giant gets bigger

  • My POV: Cloud projects will not be judged on their technical merits or on hitting their go-live dates, but rather by how deeply they impact essential business-transformation initiatives, and by how much business value and opportunity they unlocked.

    FORBES: Oracle Cloud Tops 10,000 Customers and 25 Million Users

  • The series is not a sales pitch to buy the new 5-series, but rather an effort to position BMW as a forward-thinking entity in preparation for the launch of the electric car, the BMW i3, also called the Megacity Vehicle, and is located on the micro-site BMWActivatethefuture.com.

    FORBES: BMW Documentary Series: Activate the Future

  • Mr Cameron reiterated his belief that the riots that erupted in several English cities last month were straightforward criminality - rather than any form of protest - but he said it was not just a criminal underclass who were responsible for them.

    BBC: Rioters need tough love, says David Cameron

  • What Lanier describes as "mashup" culture -- where nothing is quite a whole work but rather snippets of things remixed together -- leads to aggregation of aggregators such as FriendFeed, where it's hard to tell the source of a work, idea, or quote, and where there is barely any context, if any at all.

    ENGADGET: Book Review: You Are Not a Gadget Alt

  • It says the flash of light comes not from any type of combustion -- as we typically think of explosions -- but rather by the glowing molten rock at the impact site.

    CNN: Bright explosion on moon visible from Earth, NASA says

  • Based around Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system the TouchSmart PC doesn't dispense with a mouse and keyboard totally -- these are readily available when required -- but rather it takes the emphasis off them as tools of necessity for all tasks.

    CNN: In touch with the digital age

  • McChrystal and his staff, the self-dubbed "Team America" was far from the battlefields of Afghanistan, but rather in relaxed settings - a Paris hotel suite and an Irish pub nearby named Kitty O'Shea's.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: McChrystal remarks sad but not surprising

  • The only real highlight here is perhaps the 2, 000mAh battery, which is non-removable but still rather impressive considering it's in a 6.55mm-thin body.

    ENGADGET: BBK's Vivo X1 is a phone for audiophiles, packs high-end DAC and Beyerdynamic earphones

  • Most people using Bitcoins do not create cash in this manner, but rather use currency exchanges - such as Bitfloor - to purchase them.

    BBC: Bitcoin

  • These projects did not act as "lures" for the elites, cognitive and otherwise--as so many of our current efforts do--but rather served a broader purpose for the public.

    FORBES: New Geographer

  • What alarms Labour politicians is that voters appear to have stopped thinking of benefits as social security - something they pay into for use in hard times - but rather as a charity handout to the poor, and that this will fatally undermine the welfare state.

    BBC: Political reporter, BBC News, in Manchester

  • These countries' politics can be rather rough-edged, but their democratic transition helped them develop a high-prosperity, high-tech economy of just the sort that Vietnam wants.

    ECONOMIST: How long can the party last?

$firstVoiceSent
- 来自原声例句
小调查
请问您想要如何调整此模块?

感谢您的反馈,我们会尽快进行适当修改!
进来说说原因吧 确定
小调查
请问您想要如何调整此模块?

感谢您的反馈,我们会尽快进行适当修改!
进来说说原因吧 确定