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How to use but rather in a sentence

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This is not a simple party concern but rather a matter of urgent national interest.
It lacks the darkness of a true blues song but rather has the tender sort of heartbreak of a folk song.
I don't mean so much when we have completed a degree, but rather when we are still studying.
It recognizes we cannot afford to avoid all risk, but rather must manage the critical risks.
So the first phase of emergence is rarely a wholehearted embrace of freedom but rather a resurrection of the enemy just defeated.
A spare but rather comely man, he possessed no small sprightliness of talents, and a great readiness of speech.
Sam smiled a bit as the rest offered their own strained smiles and laughs to his amusing but rather frighteningly honest statement.
He insisted that the Soviet bureaucracy was not, as Trotsky had analyzed, a reactionary privileged caste, but rather a new ruling class.
They aren't talking about the real-world events that occurred in those places 20 years ago, but rather about how those events made them feel.
The coolest webcam of the season doesn't feature birds at all, but rather wild boars.
Life today is guided not by logic and reason but rather by emotion, fear and sentimentality.
The working class aren't coming in for a kicking as they are traditionally understood, but rather the poor.
In the Gulf War, air power was not used as an end unto itself, but rather to bring specific effects to the enemy.
He argues that the NRA cannot assist recovery but rather will only cartelize industry.
The garden was perfect for strolling, but rather too formal for reclining, sprawling or lounging in the bright spring sunshine.
Relationships are not given in kinship but rather need to be made and continually remade.
Warriors did not fight with their bare hands, but rather with weapons almost all the time.
It should not form a precedent, but rather should be done as an emergency measure just this once.
Job offers came in but rather than running off to the US or London, Dorren kept his feet on the ground.
There was no physical act on the part of D which caused the injury but rather an omission, i.e. his failure to apply the handbrake.
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