Sentence examples for rather than incurring from inspiring English sources

Where young people with business ambitions could simply get on with learning on the job and making money rather than incurring yet more educational debts to prove their worth.

They fear that the budget deficit is too much of a burden for the nation, and 6 in 10 favor postponing the Bush tax cut rather than incurring a deficit.

Mr. Hevesi praised Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg for proposing to transfer $1 billion from this year's surplus toward the cost of retiree health benefits in response to new accounting rules; another $200 million will be set aside to pay for capital projects now rather than incurring the costs of debt in the future.

But as well as wielding a stick, the Environment Agency is using a carrot: it is presenting firms with case studies it has compiled, showing that effluents are often wasted raw materials, and that by cutting this waste they actually save money rather than incurring costs.

Bloomberg's reporters note that localities are using revenues to pay down existing borrowing, rather than incurring new debt even though the new borrowing could be used for projects that would improve their economies over time.

Powerex said it agreed to the settlement rather than incur an estimated $7.5 million in additional legal costs.

HARP representatives expect that lenders who hold the distressed mortgages will write off much of the remaining 30percentt, rather than incur a foreclosure.

That arrangement, which is legal, could allow profits to be taken tax-free rather than incur the 20% corporation tax which is levied on the mainland, accountants said.

Rather than incur the expense of disposing of it, my husband took it to the middle of the lake and cast it adrift.

Rather than incur such expenses, companies increasingly prefer to pay their executives exorbitant bonuses, or issue special dividends to shareholders, or engage in purely financial speculation.

When he felt his losses had become too great, he sold the team, though not until he had dismantled the 1997 World Series champions rather than incur greater losses while he still owned them.