Sentence examples for rather than accumulating from inspiring English sources

Yes, you can take your own bags to the shops rather than accumulating yet more plastic with your purchase.

The company is able to pass on savings from lower components pricing quickly to customers because it builds computers to order rather than accumulating inventory that is then sold to retailers, Dell executives said.

Rather than accumulating cash, it contains bonds issued by the federal government to the retirement system, a promise to pay back to Social Security the surplus funds when they are needed.

The material basis for the aliens' advanced civilisation is a long-standing recognition that the location value resulting from economic activity should be collected for the benefit of the community which created it, rather than accumulating in private hands, as is currently the case in all earth-bound societies.

Unfortunately, it's necessary to get these top marks from most countries in most rounds – as the 2012 winner, Loreen from Sweden, achieved on Saturday night – rather than accumulating the dozen votes from 41 countries across the whole evening, as happened to the UK's Englebert Humperdinck in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku.

I am saddened that the possessions and memories of 100 years can be reduced to this small space - bed, television set, Zimmer frame, a few photographs, a plastic model of the helicopter in which he made his maiden flight, a pinboard covered in medals and ribbons commemorating old bowls victories - but perhaps life is about shedding rather than accumulating.

The ballet's force, however, ebbed away rather than accumulated.

They also tend to view money as something to preserve rather than accumulate.

Economists said historically low interest rates are encouraging households to reduce their mortgages rather than accumulate the money in deposit accounts paying miserably low rates of income.

Others, though, are calling the temporary changes "shareholder unfriendly," especially for those investors looking to stay more liquid themselves, rather than accumulate additional shares that might be declining in value.

SmartDisk is betting that rather than accumulate expensive, fragile memory cards, digital camera owners who take most of their pictures while away from their computers will want to transfer them to a memory bank that displays them more clearly than the tiny screens on the cameras.