Sentence examples for rather than congregate from inspiring English sources

"You find people who think, It's more worth my while to associate with this man who doles out some money to me from time to time rather than congregate with like-minded, like-situationed people who are not that well-to-do".

However, rather than congregate around a living orator, we sit facing the amputated horn of a gramophone -- that artificial larynx that heralded the modern age of communication when human speech could not only be transmitted over long distances, but no longer required a living body to broadcast it.

Several Canadian studies report that individuals who are homeless and/or have a mental illness prefer to be housed in independent housing rather than congregate settings [ 55, 66, 67].

Putting to one side that the Mayor's office decided to issue a press release for this news — some might think that's a bit of overkill for one little startup — it is a bit of a coup to show that the fastest-growing companies (and Pinterest is certainly one, judging by other news today) are looking to set up shop in the city rather than continuing to congregate further south.

This will encourage guests to start from either end rather than all congregating at one end.

The study by researchers from Leeds and Sheffield universities also collected genetic evidence that suggested males that shared roosts in the mid-altitude locations fathered the colonies' young, and were most likely motivated by the opportunity to mate earlier with females rather than waiting until bats congregated during the swarming season.

Twenty years ago, epochal pop historical moments used to congregate around albums rather than songs, and within five years of its release Paul's Boutique was acclaimed the Pet Sounds of hip-hop.

Discrimination will no doubt cost the state financially, but it may well cost even more socially, as generations of Virginia's children are raised in sub-optimal conditions of congregate care rather than within a loving and safe home.

From a very early age, I felt that music created a peaceful world in your mind; that it was about compassion, and congregating with people, rather than being solitary.

It's also where people like the makeup artists Pat McGrath or Tom Pecheux, and their counterparts in hair, are the celebrities, rather than Anna Wintour or the Hollywood starlets who congregate at the front of the house.

Other questions have been raised in the past, and are beginning to be asked again, about the wisdom of caring for infants in congregate centers like Hale House, rather than in individual foster homes.