Sentence examples for brainchild rather than from inspiring English sources

It doesn't take a great leap of imagination to see how different the present would look if Berners-Lee had clung onto his brainchild rather than giving it away - and if, instead of freely exploring the web's trillion-plus sites, everything we now did online meant logging into the private fiefdom of a single trillion-dollar corporation.

Typically for Japan, its advertisements were the brainchild of its own staff rather than those of its (plentiful) ad agencies.

By calling evolution "Darwinism," creationists are hoping to plant the idea that evolution is the outmoded and dismissible brainchild of a Victorian amateur, rather than the robust product of a century and a half of dogged scientific inquiry.

I made the case for how high stakes standardized testing was the brainchild of politicians and businessmen rather than educators, and how no one wanted to back down from the commitment to this approach to educating our children.

Military intervention was very much the brainchild of David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy, rather than a dreaded EU initiative.

Cohen will spend £22m on The Voice over the next two years and has faced criticism that it is a bought-in format – the brainchild of Big Brother creator John de Mol – rather than an in-house show.

Rather than being the brainchild of experienced engineers in a hi-tech lab, the firefighter robot was designed by Armenian schoolboys Rafael and Sahak Sahakyan – brothers aged 18 and 14.

Rather than being the brainchild of an HR staffer in subbasement D, Hilton's leaders took the time to understand the unique values and needs of their employee base in order to craft enhanced benefits that actually mean something to them.

Most entrepreneurs cash in at the earliest moment, rather than raising their brainchildren to adulthood.

It may be accident rather than strategy that WLFS, the brainchild of the journalist Toby Young and the most famous free school in the land, is one of the last to open.

As Olivia Judson (2008) recently commented, terms like "Darwinism" "suggest a false narrowness to the field of modern evolutionary biology, as though it was the brainchild of a single person 150 years ago, rather than a vast, complex and evolving subject to which many other great figures have contributed".