Sentence examples for rather than equipping from inspiring English sources

Therefore, rather than equipping Razer with a powered mechanism for righting itself when inverted, two wings were attached to the arm.

And rather than equipping labs and classrooms and hiring faculty, these institutions are being forced to use increased revenues primarily to meet inflation and to offset the losses in state appropriations.

The military's annual budget exceeds £4bn, but rather than equip and train frontline troops, there are complaints that much of the funds end up in senior officers' pockets.

Rather than equip all lanes with the devices, exclusive E-ZPass lanes were mixed with cash lanes.

On the one hand, they regard higher education as a sort of intellectual sieve, designed merely to identify the brightest future employees, rather than to equip them with productive skills.

Even in 1944, the House Select Committee on Indian Affairs said, "The goal of Indian education should be to make the Indian child a better American rather than to equip him simply to be a better Indian," recommending that these children return to boarding schools.

But this should be done with stricter conditions and an emphasis on reforming the armed forces rather than on equipping them to fight a protracted civil war in which civilians are the main casualties.

What we may look for is provision that people can afford rather than provision that equips them best.

Officers were reportedly instructed to wear jeans and trainers rather than uniforms, and were equipped with bulletproof vests and backpacks containing emergency food and water supplies.

But, Mr. Ashton and Mr. Whyte observe, this thought implied a paradox: that "American Adam wants to be back in the garden, but clothed rather than naked, innocent yet equipped with the knowledge of good and evil".

Some skeptics of the review process said it failed to challenge in fundamental ways how the military is organized, trained and equipped, rather than simply choosing what gets smaller and what is protected in the budget.