Sentence examples for rather than devoting from inspiring English sources

Bradburne attributes the low number to Italian museums being tasked with taking care of the works, rather than devoting energy to attracting art lovers.

Online business meetings are becoming common, as is the acceptance that participants will be instant messaging with each other rather than devoting their full attention to the proceedings.

The authors add: "Rather than devoting themselves to academics, students were spending increasing amounts of time networking, attending recruiting events, planning club activities and pursuing the best possible job".

That comes with having too many kids that you can't take care of, devoting your energies to scamming the system rather than devoting those energies to figuring out how to make a positive life for yourself.

A broader range of artists will benefit because the labels will be more inclined to promote albums that may only sell 200,000 copies, rather than devoting limited shelf space to sure hits.

Some environmentalists and Democratic legislators said it appeared that the administration, rather than devoting more resources to cleaning up pollution, was trying to fix the problems by lowering the standards.

Rather than devote immeasurable resources to sending humans into space, Park said science should instead build stronger telescopes to better study distant stars and planets.

As big pharmaceutical companies have become even larger, they have concentrated on drugs with blockbuster potential rather than devote time to drugs with smaller markets.

A third said: "It can be better to borrow rather than devote energies to years of coffee mornings, and hence miss grants and other targets.

It had unquestionably contributed to the ruin of our marriage that my former husband and I had been friends rather than devoted spouses, but in this case, there but for the grace of God went we.

It's more capital-efficient to do representative trials early — even if that means killing off a lead — rather than devote resources to a minor effect that appeared because the trial environment wasn't rigorous.