Sentence examples for rather than erecting from inspiring English sources

That means opening it up to scrutiny and giving investors votes, rather than erecting barricades as if to hide some guilty secret.

Music festivals on the South by Southwest model, which sell all-access badges and make use of existing clubs and theaters rather than erecting a temporary stage in a field and charging admission, are nothing new in New York.

Rather than erecting a tombstone over an empty grave, the family carried a cross from the church to their home and hung it over an altar erected in Mr. López's honor.

She said there has to be more and smarter outreach that removes barriers to care rather than erecting them, no matter how sick the person might be or how long it takes to earn their trust and deliver the needed help.

We expand Ungaliophiinae to include these two genera, rather than erect a new subfamily for these taxa.

However, rather than erect a compact and low classical villa, as Harrison had designed, Blore's plan was radically different, with strong English Tudor Renaissance features on the northern side, and an eclectic medley of western and Islamic features on the southern.

For example, the PROG1 gene was found to be deleted in several rice species, leading to prostrate rather than erect growth [ 24] that differentiates rice species.

Pennell [ 23] united Agalinis tenuifolia, A. divaricata and A. filicaulis in this section based on lack of pubescence on the posterior corolla and upper corolla lobes being arched forward rather than erect or reflexed back as is seen in the rest of the genus.

Rather than simply erecting thicker walls to fend off intruders, which becomes increasingly impractical in highly distributed cloud-based architectures, we need to encrypt the data that attackers want.

In elementary-school classrooms, an assistant teacher often roams the room, tapping the shoulders of students who are slumped forward on an elbow rather than sitting erect with their hands folded.

Later, discussing men who undergo surgery to enlarge their penises, Luciano informs us that "most patients suffer from a phenomenon doctors call 'locker-room syndrome,' meaning they want larger flaccid penises, rather than larger erect ones, to give themselves greater self-confidence among men".