Sentence examples for rather than crush from inspiring English sources

But rather than crush their will, rejection spurred them forwards.

In February he sacked an unpopular prime minister and, rather than crush street protests, magnanimously relaxed laws restricting public gatherings.

The Americans, who have demanded more concessions, are now being urged to cosset rather than crush Mr Milosevic.But his troubles are far from over.

Rather than crush or marginalise statutory bodies, he had the intellect to work with them in finding solutions to big challenges.

Another American official said he gave the general top marks for infiltrating Jemaah Islamiyah but wondered whether he wanted to "manipulate" rather than "crush" the group.

But unlike the regimes of others, his authoritarian rule was softened by the money from offshore oil fields, and his style was to co-opt or buy off opponents rather than crush them outright.

Rather than crushing the party to his right, Orbán has helped it grow.

Rather than crushing the mountaineers, though, the raids gave birth to a Muslim holy war that lasted some 40 years.

In this group the upper and lower batteries came together and acted as serrated shearing blades rather than crushing or grinding surfaces.

They also suggest how deeply divided the top leaders were and how close the country came to embracing political change rather than crushing it.

Aikines-Ayreetey, whose father, William, was an international sprinter for Ghana before the family moved to Britain, has been inspired rather than crushed by comparing himself to the best in the business.