Sentence examples for rather than instructed from inspiring English sources

What a particular joy for a teenage reader, to be challenged rather than instructed.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there were no plans to review cases she prosecuted for them, as decisions on disclosure lay with CPS lawyers rather than instructed barristers.

Alice, the grand theorist of the group, later engages in batty moon-worship; Daffy prefers, in the final analysis, to be bedded rather than instructed; the clever (though slippery) Layla accidentally-on-purpose fails to disclose to her co-directors that the company's principal backer is in fact a man.

The question addressed in this investigation is whether the same or a similar neurophysiological process is involved when the contextual variable prompting memory formation involves contingency-shaped, rather than instructed responses.

Jesus isn't a hedonist or an epicurean, but he clearly isn't an ascetic, either: he feeds the multitudes rather than instructing them how to go without.

Instinctively, when he had something important to tell an actor, he would huddle with him privately, rather than instruct in front of the others.

When teachers become glorified therapists rather than educators – by trying to treat young people rather than instruct them, by massaging young minds rather than filling them up with the knowledge – they can unwittingly contribute to the problem.

Agreeing to read out the players' grievance - rather than instructing one of them to summon the ball to do it himself - was the crowning indignity of his ignominious reign.

Rather than instructing the kettledrums to play through the passage with continuous rolling thunder, as other conductors do (including Furtwängler and Herbert von Karajan), he had the timpani peak at each of the three crescendos in the passage — releasing, all three times, an almost frightening charge of energy, as if the atom were being split again and again.

The goal of teachers at the school it to guide students rather than instruct them, a concept that the co-founders borrowed from the Montessori tradition of education.

A simple note from Simple to Mondo's founders alerting them to the EU trademark and suggesting they do not use the phrase going forward would surely have sufficed, rather than instructing lawyers on its behalf.