Sentence examples for empty rather than from inspiring English sources

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In South Africa there is often a nagging sense that the glass might be half empty rather than half full.

"We rather leave rooms and apartment empty rather than renting because of rent control," the host wrote to the Guardian.

"If every single home was an overseas investment left empty rather than a home for someone to live in, that wouldn't be tackling the housing crisis".

Hoping to attract and keep middle-income whites by limiting the number of black tenants, it left apartments empty rather than lower the rents and admit more blacks.

Capital was funneled to build mini-mansions in Sun Belt suburbs, many of which now sit empty, rather than toward industrial machines or other business investment that might generate economic output and jobs for years to come.

He said that the fees some cargo operators were asking for Haiti flights might reflect the fact that planes were returning empty, rather than with return loads that could help defray costs.

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Oh, and there's another reason this glass is half-empty rather than half-full.

Short of it, teams see a glass that is half-empty rather than half-full, looking for demons where none exist.

Why do some people see their glass as half-empty rather than half-full or even imagine that the glass will be filled in the future?

In SSc patients this finding appears to be related to the delayed gastric emptying rather than to a neuro-muscular dysfunction.

When the string is empty, split returns an array containing one empty string, rather than an empty array.

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