Sentence examples for manual rather than from inspiring English sources

If a program works oddly, he said, the companies "just write in the manual" rather than fix the product.

(The SX's standard gearbox is a 6-speed manual rather than the 5-speed units on other versions).

He said this read "as if it comes from an East German ministry of information manual rather than guidance for public servants in 21st century Britain".

✒ Further examples of "Real W1A" were not hard to find last week, as if toilers in New Broadcasting House are using the sitcom as a kind of manual rather than a wake-up call.

Like some others, he has also questioned whether a private association, whose members stand to gain from treating more patients, should be writing the manual, rather than an independent group or a federal agency.

Breslin Sibley and some 40 other young drivers were here last month to participate in the Hagerty Driving Experience, an event designed to introduce young drivers both to enjoyment of driving classic cars and to learning how to drive any car, new or old, with a manual rather than automatic transmission.

(It was popular enough to cause a clergyman to complain that young ladies of the court were keeping dance manuals rather than Bibles on their bedside tables).

It is very unlikely that we'll figure out that the real cause is that Japanese microwaves ship with thin single-language instruction manuals, rather than the thick multi-language leaflets that come with European and North American purchases.

But the problem is that far bigger thickets have grown up at the same time: the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and the Dodd-Frank financial reforms, both passed in 2010, are hundreds of bewildering pages long, partly because Congress regards laws as comprehensive instruction manuals rather than broad guidelines.

The lessons of the past are seen as instruction manuals rather than cautionary tales.

Such information, which might be found in manuals rather than in peer-reviewed publications, would not be retrievable from the sources searched for this study.