Sentence examples for rather than encouraged from inspiring English sources

But it seems delighted that America, its former foe, thwarted the plot rather than encouraged it.

Yet for Mr Hollande, as for many of his predecessors, competition is often "disloyal" and market forces dangerous things to be tamed rather than encouraged.

The movement was tolerated rather than encouraged by the various groups of Irish nationalists, and it was not fully supported by the Roman Catholic clergy until the 1880s.

A small lounge is positioned at the end of the bar, so people will be drawn through the area rather than encouraged to linger in it.

My son seems constantly to be told off by one coach, to be singled out for chastisement, rather than encouraged to learn from his mistakes and improve.

"Across the region, good students are recruited to faculty at their own universities, rather than encouraged to leave and broaden their horizons," says Jamil Salmi, a higher-education specialist at the World Bank.

Rather than encouraging competition between operators using the same network, the US encouraged competition between different infrastructure owners - big companies that could afford to build their own networks.

Yet rather than encourage, could this not backfire?

That would ultimately stifle, rather than encourage, creativity.

But rather than encouraging the growth of Friendly Societies, austerity inhibited it.

In practice, they are confiscating responsibility from locals rather than encouraging them to take it themselves.