Sentence examples for rather than defining from inspiring English sources

For the first time this country had a qualification which gave credit to students' achievements rather than defining most students as failures.

Rather than defining too specifically community-led schemes, it explains clearly what decision makers are looking for based on a hierarchy with full community ownership at the top.

But this model, rather than defining leadership by a job title, makes it a set of activities that are accessible to everyone, even to "followers".

But the truth is that the new consoles will be merely catching up with the current state of the art, rather than defining it.

Rather than defining someone based on mistakes he made as a teenager, why not tell the story of a man who has completely transformed his life and is now making positive contributions to society?

But rather than defining Mr McCain the Democrats are letting Mr McCain define himself.This might not matter so much if the senator from Arizona were a mere Bush clone.

Rather than defining him by his ethnicity, the Johnsons focus the story on the exciting, yet occasionally misguided choices that this 10-year-old science genius makes.Although conceived as a picture book, the story soon outgrew its original brief.

Photograph: Globo/Getty Images 4.53pm GMT Employment Here is a chart showing how our economy breaks down: 4.45pm GMT Britishness The Office of National Statistics' insistence on collecting data about foreign-born and UK-born residents rather than defining people by their citizenship or nationality leads to an extreme view of how "British" the residents of this country are, writes Alan Travis.

He was a smallish, rounded man with a beard that blurred rather than defined his features.

Space is limitless, because the artificial light obscures rather than defines its boundaries".

This aspect is more like sports, where the basic rules are defined but the narrative is created through the interplay of participants rather than defined in advance.