Sentence examples for decisions rather than a from inspiring English sources

It was nerve-racking, particularly for the batsmen, but it was the product of his desire to think through decisions rather than a self-conscious idiosyncrasy.

At the House hearing, Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Florida Republican who leads the committee, scoffed at the calls for additional spending, saying that poor decisions rather than a lack of money were the problem in Benghazi.

Here, we have a British and an Iraqi soldier who, having started out as mirror-images, are gradually driven by demonic influence into mutual slaughter; but current conflicts are the consequence of specific political decisions rather than a Mephistophelian curse.

He describes it as an "exciting and liberating" tool for actors, because it enables them to play any creature and allows them to make the character decisions rather than a committee of animators.

At a second hearing on Thursday afternoon, Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida, the chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, scoffed at the calls for additional spending, saying that poor decisions rather than a lack of money were the problem in Benghazi.

However this alignment with the Liberal government's approach to state policies reflected highly instrumental and strategic decisions rather than a wholesale endorsement, since we know from other interview analyses that advocates privately prioritize and are motivated in their advocacy work by the conviction that childcare is a women's equity and justice issue (Langford and Richardson 2013).

"Life has continued unchanged largely, except that we make the decisions, rather than an absentee landlord".

By and large, this has been seen as a wise decision, rather than a disaster.

"It really is moving into a mainstream decision rather than a coffee".

Adams also suggested that a Sinn Fein Executive Council decision, rather than a full party conference, might be sufficient to endorse policing.

She keeps changing the mood, but that feels like an external decision rather than a result of the piece's inner complexity.