Sentence examples for rather than director from inspiring English sources

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George Osborne was, in theory, the election co-ordinator, but "regarded himself as a chairman, rather than director of the group".

Here the clinician is constructed as a facilitator, rather than director of healthcare.

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Creators is a carefully-chosen term, too, rather than "directors".

But the rare opportunity to see federal judges as supporting actors rather than directors of a courtroom drama nevertheless drew a crowd of lawyers, law clerks and others, who filled the rows of seats.

This would devolve more power to stockholders; they, rather than directors, should decide how to spend their company's profits, much as other tax reduction lets taxpayers, rather than bureaucrats, decide.

Since his production was staged at Covent Garden in the 1950s, opera companies have occasionally followed in his footsteps and turned to choreographers rather than directors to stage Gluck's masterpiece.

With Colin Firth, Alan Rickman and Cameron Diaz in the leads and the Coen brothers heavily credited as writers (rather than directors), you could be forgiven for imagining that Gambit (2012, Momentum, 12) would be a classy affair that stylishly updates the riffs of its 1966 predecessor.

Although he respected certain contemporary directors, including Steven Spielberg, Wilder didn't envy them and came to believe that modern audiences flock to theaters because of stars rather than directors.

Smithee and the studio influences that formed him will live on in the increasingly extravagant blockbusters we've been seeing over the past decade, as the huge crews remain loyal to the studios rather than directors.

It's a peculiarity of the Academy Awards that the Oscars in two different categories — Best Picture and Best Director — have coincided sixty-four oft of ninety times, honoring a movie and its director rather than the director of another film.

With her appointment, Williamstown went back to a "producer as artistic director" model, à la Ritchie, rather than a "director as artistic director" model, à la Rees and Martin.

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