Sentence examples for rather than dismal from inspiring English sources
Tim Decker, director of the Missouri Division of Youth Services, said judges preferred to send youths to state facilities — Missouri Hills or the Hogan Street Regional Youth Center, with dorms that have wooden beds, male health and wellness classes, group counseling and game rooms — rather than dismal county lockups or to backlogged community programs.
I wanted to encapsulate it into this beautiful and majestic creature, rather than something dismal and fearful".
"Britain has a long tradition of anti-modernism," said the show's curator, Christopher Wilk, who wants to encourage visitors to see modernism in terms of its social idealism, rather than the dismal housing projects and other blights that it sometimes produced.
But the success rate will likely be considerably higher, up to 10%, rather than the dismal 2% that may be the case for the Challenge awards.
The theme of last week's column was that sooner or later the market must sell on the perception of normalized earnings rather than the dismal numbers we're seeing posted, both macrounemployment and retail sales–and micro: General Motors, Ford Motor, Disney, Qualcomm and Cisco.The last three named rallied after reporting shaded numbers, even while management pronouncements turned pessimistic.
Be safe, rather than sorry!
On Tuesday, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg chose to focus on that steady gain rather than on the dismal college-readiness data.
Its grand construct to integrate parts rather than buy was a dismal failure.
His dismal ambition – rather than, as predecessors have sought to do, finishing David Ben-Gurion's project by settling the country's borders – appears simply to be outlasting Mr Ben-Gurion as the country's longest-serving prime minister.
For Ramsay MacDonald, the British prime minister who by then headed a cross-party government, the event brought chagrin rather than glory.Set against that dismal precedent, the Group of 20 (G20) summit on April 2nd could hardly fail to do better.
