(a.) Coming before others, or before the usual time; early.
(adv.) Early; soon; betimes.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was written during the second world war and inspired by the murder in Paris of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Jewish teenager Herschel Grynszpan .
(2) Our investigations have following results: In the Rath-von Verschuer family, which is so extraordinary that the authenticity sometimes had been doubted, we found that crossing overs which were present in 50% of the cases were shown by the combination of protan defect and haemophilia B.
(3) This is exactly what happened when the Guardian and Ben Goldacre were sued for libel by vitamin manufacturer Matthias Rath , who had published adverts in South Africa denouncing Aids drugs as ineffective, while promoting his own supplements.
(4) By electrokaryotyping we found that all seven genes are located on different chromosomes: MEL1 on chromosome II as shown previously by Voll-rath et al.
(5) In a previous paper (Rath, H. M., Doyle, G. A. R., and Silbert, D. F. (1989) J. Biol.
(6) "So what we're going to do is get a volunteer up on stage to guess whether the next card detailing an item of Conservative or Labour council waste is higher or lower than the one before," said Rathe.
(7) The MF alpha 2-encoded Asn-5,Arg-7 alpha-factor-like peptide has been shown shown to have similar activity to Gln-5,Lys-7 alpha-factor in morphogenesis and growth arrest studies (S. Raths, P. Shenbagamurthi, F. Naider, and J. M. Becker, J. Bacteriol.
(8) No matter, because Rathe had some heartwarming soundbites from members giving their reason for joining the party.
(9) #BritishThreatLevels May 24, 2017 Ben Rathe (@benrathe) "Can you move down please?"
(10) There have been other cases, including Keith Schellenberg, a multi-millionaire who bought a Scottish island, but didn't get on with the islanders; with Matthias Rath, who peddled vitamins as a treatment for HIV; and with Elton John, who had a sense of humour failure at a harmless piece of parody – a case involving fair comment.
(11) "I'm Austin Rathe, head of membership and supporters," said a young man who looked as if he might have had to produce ID to get into the club.
Rather
Definition:
(a.) Prior; earlier; former.
(a.) Earlier; sooner; before.
(a.) More readily or willingly; preferably.
(a.) On the other hand; to the contrary of what was said or suggested; instead.
(a.) Of two alternatives conceived of, this by preference to, or as more likely than, the other; somewhat.
(a.) More properly; more correctly speaking.
(a.) In some degree; somewhat; as, the day is rather warm; the house is rather damp.
Example Sentences:
(1) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
(2) They’re no crack force either; many are rather portly!
(3) It has recently been suggested that procaine penicillin existed in solution in vitro and in vivo as a "procaine - penicillin" complex rather than as dissociated ions.
(4) Recent data collected by the Games Outcomes Project and shared on the website Gamasutra backs up the view that crunch compounds these problems rather than solving them.
(5) The Cole-Moore effect, which was found here only under a specific set of conditions, thus may be a special case rather than the general property of the membrane.
(6) The pancreatic changes are unlikely to be an artefact, but rather a direct toxic effect of the alcohol as confirmed by the biochemical changes.
(7) Reactive metabolites which suppress splenic humoral immune responses are thought to be generated within the spleen rather than in distant tissues.
(8) These results indicate that HBV markers in cord blood are either false-positive or due to contamination by maternal blood rather than an indication of in utero infection.
(9) As a group, the three mammalian proteins resemble bovine serum conglutinin and behave as lectins with rather broad sugar specificities directed at certain non-reducing terminal N-acetylglucosamine, mannose, glucose and fucose residues, but with subtle differences in fine specificities.
(10) Several interpretations of the results are examined including the possibility that the effects of Valium use were short-lived rather than long-term and that Valium may have been taken in anticipation of anxiety rather than after its occurrence.
(11) Women seldom occupy higher positions in a [criminal] organisation, and are rather used for menial, but often dangerous tasks ,” it notes.
(12) It is time to start over with an approach to promoting wellbeing in foreign countries that is empirical rather than ideological.
(13) In one of the cirrhotic patients, postmortem correlation of sonographic, angiographic, and pathological findings showed that the dilated vessels seen on sonography were cystic veins draining normally into the portal vein rather than portosystemic anastomoses.
(14) Communicating sustainability is a subtle attempt at doing good Read more And yet, in environmental terms it is infinitely preferable to prevent waste altogether, rather than recycle it.
(15) Current recommendations regarding contraception in patients with diabetes are not appropriate for the adolescent population and therefore tend to support this phenomenon rather than relieve it.
(16) Hence the major role of the 14-A arm of carboxybiotin is not to permit a large carboxyl migration but, rather to permit carboxybiotin to traverse the gap which occurs at the interface of three subunits and to insinuate itself between the CoA and keto acid sites.
(17) These later results suggest that dopamine agonists increase sensorimotor reactivity measured with acoustic startle by acting on sensory rather than motor parts of the reflex arc.
(18) This was due to the fact that stale bread was fed ad lib, rather than concentrates.
(19) Rather, academics need to involve themselves in managerial roles.
(20) Decreased synthesis rather than increased utilization accounted for the nucleoside effect.