Sentence examples for maker rather than from inspiring English sources

And whomever he names to Secretary of State, Obama will remain the maker, rather than the carrier, of a decisive foreign policy.

At first, Dr. Shah reached out to Medtronic, the nation's biggest heart device maker, rather than Biotronik, for help in defibrillator training.

As a deal maker rather than an engineer, he must win the trust of one of Germany's proudest, most engineering-driven companies.

True, his strange, often wonderful wines express the seasonal eccentricities of both the vineyard and the maker rather than a striving for uniform taste and high Wine Spectator ratings.

Mr Rigby explains that the Detroit car maker, "rather than forcing suppliers to share the pain...developed closer relations with them...If suppliers suggested ways to cut costs by 10%, they got half the savings".

As a teenager, Day-Lewis studied woodworking and, true to the divide in his nature, he wanted to become a craftsman — a maker, rather than a designer, of furniture.

He is considered a deal-maker rather than a tycoon.

"I'd probably call myself a film-maker rather than just a special effects man.

Lewis, too, was a synthesiser and map-maker, rather than an innovator, in the methodology or paradigms of American studies.

And Mr Lott is instinctively a deal-maker rather than an agenda-setter.Mr Lott learned his political skills as a whip in both houses.

At the Directors Guild of America Awards, where she also won the top honour, Bigelow said: "I suppose I like to think of myself as a film-maker", rather than as a female film-maker.