Sentence examples for rather than dipping from inspiring English sources

The unemployment rate, rather than dipping below five per cent, which would have set off alarm bells at the Fed about a possible wage-price spiral, has held steady since the summer.

It seems people have been glued to their TV screens rather than dipping a toe in the fringe, with the Stage reporting reduced ticket sales and even the PBH free fringe experiencing lower audience numbers.

If Dr. Steiner, a mild-mannered classics professor who will be returning to his post as dean of the education school at Hunter College this summer, was the intellectual driver of the plan, Dr. King was the details person, preferring to sit in a room eating takeout and crunching numbers rather than dipping into Albany politics, which he found frustrating and divisive.

After studying their fellow Canadians over a period of 25 years, they concluded that, rather than dipping in middle age, as has long been believed, happiness climbs steadily from your teens onwards, as if life were one long amble towards the sunlit uplands.

Rather than dipping into the dividends, Seidenberg is counting on Verizon's lucrative long-distance business getting off the ground quickly.

The company has accomplished all this largely by focusing on the domestic market, rather than dipping into the more tempting go-go international construction scene.

Rather than dip into his savings, he took a loan from the Norwich and Peterborough building society.

But rather than dip too much further into it, the firms are turning to people with almost no business experience.

Professor Heinz at Northwestern said that in the meantime, some law schools have quietly chosen to shrink their classes rather than "dip down farther in the applicant pool".

You need to follow the series, rather than dip into it now and then, to appreciate why Gibbs sometimes hits his agents but is also a dab hand with crying babies.

The earlier features were nice enhancements to all of its core functionality, making Google+ a cooler place to say, rather than dip your toes in once in a while, which is how I happen to use it, and why I like it a great deal.