Sentence examples for rather than dropping them from inspiring English sources

If targets were proving so effective, the government would surely be setting more exacting ones rather than dropping them.

Campaigners who had urged Mr Cameron not to move too quickly said last night they approved of suspending sanctions rather than dropping them entirely, as some EU members want.

One oddness: they give you actual glasses, which is nice – but it means when you've finished your drink you have to fight your way to the bar to put them down, rather than dropping them on the ground.

In New York, a judge ruled in 2000 that the city must arrange continuing treatment for mentally ill inmates before they are released from the Rikers Island jails, rather than dropping them on a Queens street in the middle of the night with $3 in subway tokens, the usual practice.

Although numbers of majors in traditional humanities departments like English, history, and philosophy seem unlikely to re-reach their highs of the 1960s, the rise of interdisciplinary majors and "area studies" degrees means that today's students have more options from which to choose, and are therefore fanning out across the humanities rather than dropping them altogether.

Number 26: Disappointing third album from previously much-touted act, so bad editorial embarrassment means its been crowbarred in here as a Pravda-style exercise in shrinking them slowly rather than dropping them like a hot brick as would be most appropriate.

You may find that the most productive option is to educate customers rather than drop them.

The proposed method differs from the standard technique as we drop each of the relays in turns rather than drop them based on the channel condition at each stage.

I loved the scene in which Bannerjee walked away from Caz through the estate of doom, for example, but it would have had more punch had we been given more time with the pair rather than dropping in with them for five minutes each week.

Rather than dropping these individuals, we treat them as belonging to one and the same occupational category.

Rather than dropping bombs on the Arabs, we should bombard them with cultural emissaries who could help them understand that we hold our freedoms dearer than McDonald's, Disney and Coca-Cola.