Sentence examples for rather than honored from inspiring English sources

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Their flying of the American flag at the Refuge which they had taken hostage desecrated rather than honored it.

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Rather than honor Valentine's Day, they commemorate Black History Month.

Our government hides the dead from view, rather than honoring them.

That makes this the only state that honors the indigenous people of this land, rather than honor the beginning of their attempted genocide.

"Rather than honoring their sacrifice and recognizing their pain, Mr Trump disparaged the religion of the family of an American hero," Collins wrote.

In a 1955 letter to The Orlando Sentinel, Hurston questioned the Supreme Court's demand for forced integration, calling its decision in Brown v. Board of Education "insulting rather than honoring my race".

Rather than honor the blue-slip tradition, McConnell said that he would ignore it and deprive Senate Democrats of the veto power that Republicans enjoyed during the Obama years.

Rather than honoring a strict hierarchy of stars, the main artists remained onstage throughout the night, sitting in a semicircle on chairs, taking turns performing songs round-robin style.

The end of the strike, which meant that nominees like George Clooney would attend the show rather than honor a picket line, was deemed noteworthy enough that one Oscar sponsor was considering producing a special commercial to celebrate the settlement.

These days, at least in liberal enclaves, a girl who likes baseball or wants her hair cut short is more likely to be called "gender-nonconformist" or "gender-expansive," with any suggestion that she'll grow out of such behaviors suspect as evidence of condemning rather than honoring them.

John Edwards, seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, joined firefighters and police unions in attacking Mr. Giuliani's comments yesterday, saying, "It seems that Giuliani is determined to take every opportunity to exploit the memory of 9/11 for political gain, rather than honor the incredible sacrifices of our first responders".

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