Sentence examples for present rather than from inspiring English sources

He thinks in the present rather than the future.

In the Illinois Senate, there can be strategic reasons for voting "present" rather than simply no.

With all the current problems on Earth, we should focus more on the present rather than on the future.

In taking Martin, the consensus national player of the year, the Nets picked for the present rather than the future.

I'm trying to make the productions wholly American.' At 68, he lives in the present rather than the past.

It puts the accent on the grit of the present rather than on the gold dust of the past.

The musicians encourage people to live in the present, rather than the past, where many have often taken refuge.

He is the only serious contender to have emerged from Indonesia's democratic present rather than its authoritarian past.

X-trisomy, sex chromosome disorder of human females, in which three X chromosomes are present, rather than the normal pair.

This spat is a classically Catholic argument about the present rather than a rich attempt to make sense of the past.

He said he would consider making payments to the lowest-paid on a fortnightly basis, as happens at present, rather than monthly as planned.