Sentence examples for rather than imposed on from inspiring English sources

As this account would be "generated by the school, rather than imposed on it, it would be much more likely to gain the support of the whole school community", Park said.

It was largely self-generated by Home Office researchers rather than imposed on them.

First, he was acclaimed unanimously by the Greek Assembly, rather than imposed on the people by foreign powers.

55 57 Improvement interventions are much more likely to succeed when they are developed with, rather than imposed on, healthcare professions.

To his great credit, Mr. Haggis tries to coax an answer out of his story rather than imposing one on it from the start, as he did in "Crash".

Under IBM's ownership, the Indian workforce of Daksh, which runs call centres and does other basic "business process outsourcing", has grown from 6,000 in April 2004 to over 20,000.Cheap and cheerfulAccording to Pavan Vaish, its boss, IBM has largely allowed Daksh to carry on as it was, rather than imposing on it the IBM way, as might have happened in the past.

Rather than impose on our reading of Plato a uniform expectation of what he must be doing (because he has done such a thing elsewhere), we should bring to each dialogue a receptivity to what is unique in each of them.

It was the most special version of something she might wear rather than something imposed on her by the occasion".

And he wrenched some important concessions from the union, like gaining for his principals the ability to hire the teachers they wanted, rather than those imposed on them by the union's seniority system.

The Iran nuclear talks have set a good precedent for Iran being able to fulfil obligations that it has signed up to, rather than those imposed on it," she said.

The results could vary widely — from the fluid, sunny images of "Le Pont du Nord" (1981) to the dark, heavy, almost Germanic manner of "The Duchess of Langeais" (2007) — but they seemed always to grow organically from the material, rather than being imposed on it.