Sentence examples for rather than connections from inspiring English sources
It was skill, rather than connections, that got him here in the first place.
On the ground, he began basing promotions and transfers in the company's ranks on merit rather than connections and friendships.
The Penang reforms helped level the playing field for small Malay businesses, Mr. Lim said, enabling them to win contracts based on merit rather than connections.
From my point of view, internships in the UK parliament would benefit from this kind of system – it would mean that opportunities were allocated on talent rather than connections, proximity to London and levels of personal funding.
An aristocracy that gambled its money away on "wine, women and song" has been replaced by a business-school-educated elite whose members marry one another and spend their money wisely on Mandarin lessons and Economist subscriptions for their children.It is, of course, good that money flows to talent rather than connections, and that people invest in their children's education.
Unlike networking events, fraught with professional pressure and thick with the thwap of business cards passing hands, Grubwithus meals are just about meeting people who might want friends, rather than connections.
The constraints are encapsulated within a mapping operation, so that rather than connection requests necessarily being address-based, they can also be metadata-based.
The penetration of mobile phones in large parts of the developing world notwithstanding, mobile access is more expensive than fixed line access since one is paying for "coverage" rather than connection to a specific location [ 4, 58].
It is shown that the adoption of bipolar connection rather than monopolar connection alleviates the problems of a maldistribution of potential caused by limitations in electrode conductivity for a majority of cells in large cell banks.
What Backplane had developed was a truly social form of social media in that website LittleMonsters.com was built to connect people around shared interests rather than shared connections.
State-run newspapers have highlighted the Japanese rather than American connections of the products.
