Sentence examples for rather than devising from inspiring English sources

Rather than devising a way to cope with the plural society, they tried to dismantle it.

This helps them dream up ideas that work across all types of media, rather than devising separate campaigns for each one.

The goal is to identify the sources within the vehicle that cause unpleasant acoustics, sloppy control or poor driving dynamics — and reduce or eliminate them, rather than devising expensive fixes aimed at masking them.

Rather than devising new versions of existing objects, they question what sort of things we need at a time when digital technology has wrought dramatic changes in the way we live and work, and then develop them.

Alas it is not, but I have seen too many on-the-job trainees become obsessed with controlling classrooms and delivering lectures rather than devising the activities which generate real learning.

Rather than devising a payment matrix on his own, Stewart says he relied on a statistical analysis company in New York to decide on levels of compensation, based on earlier jury awards.

Philip E. Coyle III, a former national security official in the Obama White House and a former director of weapons testing at the Pentagon, said the panel's report exposed a system that should be rebuilt from top to bottom, adding that the antimissile complex was geared toward "producing and fielding hardware" rather than actually devising ways to deflect enemy attacks.

But it is quite clear that life expectancy in the industrialised world had almost doubled by the time the first antibiotics were discovered [ 1], and this must therefore have been achieved by prevention of the major infectious diseases rather than by devising better forms of treatment.

Beneath its eloquent skin, The Possessed is palpably a fix-up, rather than something devised from the start as a whole book-shaped book.

CSCI also recommends a national formula is devised to underpin personal budgets so there is a consistent approach, rather than each council devising its own system.

Clever consultants, whose immediate incentive is to please managers rather than shareholders, have devised ingenious compensation schemes allowing bosses to reap handsome rewards even if they foul things up.