Sentence examples for rather than contemplating from inspiring English sources

So, according to Grant, Britain should be upping its input rather than contemplating disengagement.

So, while this is supposed to be about Living Our values rather than Contemplating Our Navels, now might be as good a time as any.

Gorsuch said that Scalia had reminded legal scholars that, rather than contemplating the future, "judges should instead strive (if humanly and so imperfectly) to apply the law as it is, focusing backward, not forward".

"I guess I belong to the European tradition of the writer who has to be involved with reality, rather than contemplating his navel and just being a confessional writer over and over and over again," he said in an interview with Newsday in 1980.

The visitors here come to engage with nature rather than contemplate its mysteries.

But rather than contemplate social conditions in the Italian countryside, the film fixes its attention on matters at once metaphysical and material, taking as its subject nothing less than life itself.

Today, I'm dismayed that so many liberals, disillusioned by Iraq, seem willing to let an average of 165 Syrians be killed daily rather than contemplate missile strikes that just might, at the margins, make a modest difference.

One conspiracy theory holds that his arrival was arranged by Mr Préval as a coded threat to outsiders that rather than contemplate the defeat of his chosen successor he might arrange the return of a more popular exiled former president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a leftist whose corrupt misrule prompted his controversial ousting in 2004.

In his fascinating interview with Hanif Kureishi, Khan speaks with disbelief of the bombing outrages of 7 July 2005 and urges disaffected young British Muslims everywhere to embrace self-improvement and change through sport and education, rather than contemplate the possibility of violence.

Rather than contemplate the meaning of life, we prefer to endlessly scroll through Instagram and see other people present their best public versions of it.

July 4th was Independence Day, and I'm sure many young folks celebrated the right to chug a beer, rather than contemplate how their political party represents them.