Sentence examples for rather than fulfilling from inspiring English sources

"It seems as if Harvey may have advanced his own agenda rather than fulfilling Judith's," said Caroline Mortimer, a longtime friend of Ms. Rothschild's.

A result is that the technology is being used more to provide a taste of the full experience rather than the real thing; it alludes to what might be possible rather than fulfilling it.

Rather than fulfilling Congress's bipartisan mandate to establish the ombudsman at the respected National Archives, the Bush budget attempts a shell-game switch of the new watchdog to the Department of Justice.

Mr. Fox points out that there is also the risk that lawyers will steer clients to their own business concerns, rather than fulfilling their obligation to lay out a range of options objectively.

Lancaster is keen to give his side of the story to the review panel but is also understood to be saddened by Burgess's decision to return to rugby league with South Sydney rather than fulfilling his three-year contract with Bath.

The hearings on the bill, however, have put the agencies' status in play, and have aired concerns that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have grown too big and too concerned with profits, rather than fulfilling a public mandate to keep home mortgage money plentiful and affordable.

Ms. Bayardelle's songs, too, often tease rather than fulfill.

His paintings memorialize, rather than fulfill, his effort in making them.

Jim McCann likes to describe the company as a place people go when they want to communicate feelings rather than fulfill obligations.

But rather than fulfill your obligation to your readers and your public trust, you seemed more concerned with federal shield laws and protecting one of your own reporters.

Hansen goes on to argue that rather than fulfill its mission statement to "make the world more open and connected", such editorial decisions "will simply promote stupidity and fail to bring human beings closer to each other".