Sentence examples for rather than counted from inspiring English sources

Even the recently revised numbers are inferred from two surveys rather than counted directly.

The company is facing a legal challenge from its drivers, who say they should be recognised officially as Uber workers, rather than counted as self-employed.

John Winthrop, the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, estimated rather than counted the population, explaining in a letter that "David's example stickes somewhat with us".

But in return they want a special committee of Dell's independent directors to change the rules of the vote, now scheduled for August 2nd, so that any abstentions would be ignored rather than counted as votes against the buy-out.

For that reason, coins were often weighed rather than counted.

Instead, they told me, they would continue with their diets while looking forward to estimating, rather than counting, their calories.

Since the display was fleeting, they had to use their number sense rather than count the dots.

Inflation is rampant at supermarkets in Harare, where cashiers weigh fat bundles of Zimbabwean dollars rather than count them because the currency's value has fallen so low.

So I hope that even when people disagree with specific policies they can share in the belief of trying to lift people up rather than count people out.

In 1634 Governor John Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Colony estimated the local population rather than counting it exactly, telling a correspondent: "David's example stickes somewhat with us".

The other part is that as a young woman, Ms. Alexeyeva sat through so many K.G.B. interrogations that she rolls her eyes rather than count them.