Sentence examples for liked rather than from inspiring English sources

In conversations, my priority was to be liked, rather than to speak the truth.

"Often the chief doesn't have the leadership abilities to tell his officers what's right, and still wants to be one of the boys and liked rather than respected".

He was devastated when he failed to make the Yale orchestra twice -- a result, he said, of studying the modern pieces he liked rather than the standard audition material.

It first enraged them back in 2005 when its music division included particularly aggressive software on compact discs (remember those?) designed to frustrate folk trying to "burn" copies of them.Then in 2011 Sony sued some young hackers who had cracked the code on its PlayStation 3 gaming console so they could run any software they liked, rather than just Sony's own offerings.

In a Sheffield pub in 1963, guitarist Derek Bailey, drummer Tony Oxley and bassist Gavin Bryars (collectively known as Joseph Holbrooke) discovered free jazz influenced by Coleman and John Coltrane, and all over Europe the belief spread that musicians could adapt any materials they liked, rather than being bound by the rules of hardened styles.

But the point is that users could build it up however they liked, rather than being stuck with whatever they got when they signed up.

It's always harder satirize what you like rather than what you dislike.

So that "audience score" you see on every film is really telling you what men like, rather than women.

They know they only make progress when people are under a Conservative government they don't like, rather than a Labour government that they do like".

Could the cosmic fabric be made up of discrete chunks, atoms of space if you like, rather than being continuous, as is assumed by relativity?

A generation foolish enough to have graduated into a recession — "liking" rather than loving, stealing Wi-Fi, twerking molly (or whatever it is you do with molly).