Sentence examples for rather than bears from inspiring English sources

In 1865 Charles Dickens referenced a similar tale in Our Mutual Friend, but there the house belongs to hobgoblins rather than bears.

Human-bear conflicts are increasing worldwide for many ursids [27] [29], and considering that wildlife agencies prefer to target management at humans rather than bears [16], the gap in knowledge about the effectiveness of education and enforcement is especially glaring for management of human-bear conflicts.

Jonathan B. Behrins, a lawyer for the shop owners, said that though he thought Island Smokes' case was winnable, "a business decision" was made to close, rather than bear the cost of litigation.

I.B.M., for example, rather than bear the cost of research and development on memory chips by itself, entered into a venture with Infineon, and the partnership was instrumental in helping make Infineon a world leader in memory technology.

Rather than bear the social stigma of raising a malformed child, my parents eventually gave me to the British government as one of the "child migrants" who were expatriated from postwar Britain to rural Australia.

(Microsoft did not help by making Windows Mobile or newer Windows Phone systems incompatible with Flash).So, rather than bear the development costs for several platforms and hundreds of different mobile devices, Adobe threw in the towel after just 15 months.

Rather than bore you with words, I chose to do a video review for the Smartparts digital frame mashup.

Rather than bore you with more text, I decided I'd put my money where my mouth is and created a sample DJ mix for your CrunchGear readers.

It wisely handed off its Web retail operations to Amazon.com, opting to pay Amazon a fee rather than bear the cost of a full-fledged e-commerce unit.

Rather than bore you with a handful of other random gadgets and doodads that run Linux, I've decided to focus on one really big thing that's phenomenal.

Thus, a fact sheet from the National Abortion Foundation reports: "Of teenage women who become pregnant, about 35% choose to have an abortion rather than bear a child".