Sentence examples for rather than contending from inspiring English sources

Rather than contending with the horse-drawn traffic of midtown, funeral processions might travel by special train to Woodlawn, where the deceased could be laid to rest amid the tranquillity of the countryside.

The losing streak is the team's longest since the 1990-91 seandn and, the Devils (6-7-3) now find themselves with a losing record and are trying to avoid falling into last place in their division rather than contending for the lead.

But rather than contending with Hemingway's pared-down, sculptural, quintessentially modernist prose, he fought with the essentially postmodern assumption behind it: that what was written first had to be lived — and picked up on the essentially modernist, existential core of the experience that Hemingway lived and wrote, which is the presence of death.

In the present study, the underlying diseases differed from those in the Ünal report and while, rather than contending with significant variations in VT and MV, we maintained constant VT and MV during the measurements.

Rather than contend for a conference or national championship, Coach Joe Paterno's Penn State team may scramble to finish at.500.

Rather than contend with the science, Dubner and Levitt took to their blog to call their critics names and write them off as "activists".

More than half of Uganda's urban residents turn first to private clinics when they get sick, according to government statistics, rather than contend with drug and staff shortages at free, government-run facilities.

Even with few signs of protest evident, many Prague residents without schoolchildren simply packed up and left town for the week rather than contend with traffic tangled by the security measures.

However, rather than contend with complicated nonlinear mappings, we suggest that a promising alternative may be to use the plenoptic function[24] as a centralized representation of the scene.

While the New York State Theater went under the knife for a $100 million renovation, becoming in the process the David H. Koch Theater, Mortier encouraged City Opera's board to shut down the 2008–09 season almost entirely, rather than contend with the construction.

One hallmark of particularly weak minds is the tendency to dismiss an actually germane argument about a topic, rather than contend with it.