Sentence examples for rather than achieve from inspiring English sources

A few sessions to relieve pain, rather than achieve a cure, cost about $1,500.

Again suggesting that the president is an unpatriotic fop, the radio ranter averred: "He wants to manage this rather than achieve victory".

Once seen as a progressive, demanding and successful manager at club level, Capello is now viewed as a money for old rope merchant, someone looking to line his pockets rather than achieve any further glory on the football pitch.

However, some people tend to lengthen their turns or deliberately interrupt other people when it is their turn in order to establish their presence rather than achieve more fruitful discussions.

On this view, extending marriage to same-sex marriage will undermine, rather than achieve, gay and lesbian liberation.

The desire to play music, rather than achieve fame and fortune, has kept the band going, he says.

The emphasis is on recreating the quality of Baroque performance rather than achieving musical perfection at every moment.

Evans warned that LGBTI activists "are also focused on who gets credit" for marriage equality rather than achieving the reform.

It feels to me more as though the economy is gradually strengthening, rather than achieving some sudden take-off.

Rather than achieving the grand synthesis of tragedy and humble domestic drama that O'Neill envisioned, the play sometimes comes across as melodrama overblown to mythic proportions.

He said the American-backed fighting in that densely populated district was causing only civilian casualties rather than achieving any positive result.