Sentence examples for rather than accelerating from inspiring English sources

Producers of oil are certainly feeling the pinch but global growth is slowing rather than accelerating.

Few new blockbuster drugs came on the market, so overall drug prices remained relatively constant, rather than accelerating as predicted.

This would increase the biomass of the forest by adding more trees rather than accelerating the growth of older ones.

The festivals themselves have to take their share of responsibility too, relying on guaranteed ticket-shifters rather than accelerating the line-up trajectory of acts they believe in.

Underpin their economies by securing and enhancing natural capital (in terms of water supply, sanitation, local food production, biodiversity, sustainable forestry, clean energy, and so on) rather than accelerating its destruction.

Increasing the basic rate of income tax limit to rise in line with inflation, rather than accelerating it so the higher rate threshold reaches £50,000, saving £1.3bn by 2020.

The aggressive lending at Conseco Finance should have been reined in, rather than accelerated".

But the Institute for Government said the government should "fix the flaws rather than accelerate this agenda".

Paradoxically, the transfer of the plans by Klaus Fuchs, a German, and Theodore Alvin Hall, a young American, delayed rather than accelerated the Soviet weapons program.

As Apple stretches into almost every part of our lives, some sign of slowing momentum could actually encourage them to focus rather than accelerate.

That may seem unlikely – one would think that a bad economic outlook would incline governments to postpone, rather than accelerate, austerity measures.