Sentence examples for rather than commissioning from inspiring English sources

The highway safety agency, rather than commissioning a study with 10,000 drivers, handled one involving 100 cars.

Rather than commissioning a score from a composer of movie music, Scorsese rummages through twentieth-century classics by Ligeti, Penderecki, Scelsi, Cage, Feldman, Schnittke, and others.

Rather than commissioning dusty biographies to mark anniversaries, Mr Gilmore reckons that firms should trawl the archives for emblematic stories of this kind.Younger companies can use history, too.

To get by, Grace is talking of screening drama repeats in 2002, rather than commissioning afresh, and making cut-price experimental factual kids' programmes, such as video diaries.

In 2006, then-interim general manager Dan Tangherlini was rebuffed when he urged cost-reducing measures such as replacing some short escalators with stairs, selling Metro's headquarters building, and buying rail cars made from an older design rather than commissioning expensive new engineering work.

Rather than commissioning groups making "piecemeal decisions", Hopson said there should be a national debate about the future of the UK's healthcare system involving not only politicians, NHS leaders and clinicians – but the public as well, given that tax revenues funded it.

* This article was amended on 15 November 2015 to clarify that Susan Casey pitched rather than commissioned the story that ultimately became the book Into Thin Air.

Unusually, the PCT (by the admission of the PCT chief executive as well as other respondents) encouraged and supported, rather than commissioned this project.

Oracle's sales force now focuses on consulting, rather than commissions.

Sales agents work for salaries, rather than commissions, to help win the trust of customers.

It's often an invisible mistake a sin of omission rather than commission.