Sentence examples for losing but rather from inspiring English sources

OXFORD, ENGLAND — Parents with young children will be familiar with the phenomenon — a game is going badly, little Daniel is losing, but rather than redouble his efforts he changes the rules of the game.

As Bill Walton, who played under Wooden from 1971-74, put it: "Coach Wooden never talked about winning and losing, but rather about the effort to win.

"We have always chosen to focus not on how our loved ones were lost, but rather on how they lived and how their legacy lives on today".

This fact shows, he argued, that it is not memory that is lost but, rather, the bodily mechanism that is needed to express it.

Perhaps the greatest disappointment will hinge not on who wins or loses, but rather in the revelation of the bitter political division within the United States and Florida Supreme Courts.

And to the extent that people who haven't flown in the last five days will fly in the future, the revenue from their trips hasn't been lost, but rather postponed.

The Jets players seemed to mimic the caution of the play calling, and Groh had to remind them at halftime, when they were ahead by 7-0, they they should not be playing not to lose, but rather to win.

Her calculation wasn't about what she could potentially lose, but rather what she stood to gain.

This accords with the Principle of Conservation of Mass-Energy, according to which matter and energy are never lost but rather transmute into each other.

The problem is not getting lost, but rather, our relationship with it.

So I find myself reassuring voters that their ballot, though cast early, will not be lost, but rather counted and secured.