Sentence examples for instead of lower from inspiring English sources

The consumer, unfortunately, loses — by paying high, brand-name drug prices instead of lower prices for a generic.

Other gomphotheres, such as Gnathabelodon, had similar ecological specializations, but, instead of lower tusks, the margin of the lower jaw was elongated, forming a scoop.

"If we don't stop this bill tonight," he said, "the only debate we'll be having is about higher premiums, not savings for the American people, higher taxes instead of lower costs, and cuts to Medicare rather than improving seniors' care".

To help pay for various other tax breaks in the bill, the "carried interest" of investment managers would be taxed at ordinary income rates instead of lower capital-gains rates.America's UI payments are usually stingier and more short-lived than their equivalents in Europe and Canada.

Also, selective use of upper limb tourniquets, instead of lower limb tourniquets, to monitor seizure activity will help minimize the occurrence of fatal thrombo-embolic phenomenon during ECT.

Another counterintuitive finding was that participants who engaged in regular active-recreational activities had higher, instead of lower, adiposity levels than those who did not.

So at the bottom of the sentencing menu, there is a concerted attempt to reinvent the fine, with the use of compensation orders, reparations to victims and seizing cars and other assets instead of lower-end community penalties.

In the first year, Willington recruited nearly 200 growers from all over Mount Elgon, driving for hours to persuade them of the benefits of producing washed arabica (partly processed gourmet beans) instead of lower-grade unwashed coffee.

The most notable is the requirement that complaints be handled by senior officers — colonels or Navy captains — instead of lower-ranking officers who are often ill equipped or reluctant to pursue assault cases.

Prosecutors said Mr. Gonzales pressured Norcal Waste Systems Inc. into using Teamsters, instead of lower-paid union workers, at a recycling plant, and then secretly agreed to help the company, a trash contractor, recoup the extra labor expenses at a taxpayer cost of $11.25 million.

It grows up instead of lowering".