Sentence examples for behind better from inspiring English sources

Many Americans began to expect wars to be short and painless, sweeping away bad regimes and leaving behind better ones.

Ms. Harvey was a mighty frontwoman, mostly leaving her guitar behind, better to allow her inner Robert Plant to blossom.

"The spending is very significant, they don't pollute, and almost everything they touch they leave behind better than they found it.

As he boarded the elevator, the resident said to a secretary, who was remaining behind, "Better give me the dentist's address again".

This has been made possible by increases in processing power which have made computationally intensive speech-recognition quicker and cheaper.The real impetus behind better voice applications, however, is the recent agreement on an industry-wide standard.

They are wrong: letting in a little daylight on how institutional investors vote on shareholders' behalf might help to put the power of the market, and not just that of regulators, behind better corporate governance.

Life expectancy in the poorest fifth of the UK continues to lag behind better-off areas, especially among women.

These children don't just fail to thrive physically; they also fall behind better-fed ones in developing cognitive skills.

It took Woods 36 blows, one-over par, to reach the turn, but of his overnight challengers only Mickelson, who had been five behind, bettered that total, and then only by one.

M.B.A. Programs, a Web site that provides information on schools, puts Tokyo's Hitotsubashi University in eighth position in Asia, well behind better-known rivals in the region, including the China Europe International Business School in Shanghai and the Indian Institute of Management in Gujarat.

These diseases are called "neglected" for a reason -- despite their impact, they have always been considered secondary health priorities, behind better-known diseases like tuberculosis and malaria.