Sentence examples for killer rather than from inspiring English sources

The Senate Republican leader, Dean Skelos, argues that the measure "could be a job killer rather than a job promoter".

Most authors are dependent on the richness of trial transcripts and on interviews with those around the killer, rather than interviews with the sociopath himself.

By publishing his account of the attacks, we become propagandists for the killer rather than investigators unmasking his secrets, just as we do if we share Isis videos.

They really made me feel like I might be a serial killer rather than someone with a common and treatable illness.

Critics like Roger Ebert and Janet Maslin have derided slasher films for featuring first-person camera work that allows viewers to identify with the killer rather than his prey.

The Sun wrote a feature entitled "The Crazy World of Martin Creed", as though Creed were Prince, or a serial killer, rather than a tall, open-faced, friendly Scotsman who "spends his time thinking about things and doing things".

That raised the possibility that, as in the case of the Americanized Tsarnaev brothers, the attack was the work of disaffected homegrown killers rather than foreign terrorist plotters.

But having "two very different ways of death and no crossover of firearms evidence" forced him to conclude there were two killers rather than one.

The International Association of Game and Fish Commissioners protested the "slaughtering of elk by hired killers" rather than by sportsmen, and schoolchildren from across the country were inspired to write letters of condemnation.

In the later half of the 20th century long-lasting diseases (cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes) became the number one killers, rather than infectious disease.

In chronic conditions such as arthritis analgesics may be prescribed to be taken 'as needed' especially where the severity of pain fluctuates, so we have chosen to investigate the pattern of patients' use of pain killers rather than their actual adherence to prescribed regimens.