Sentence examples for rather than instructing from inspiring English sources

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.

First, the court in effect compels the actors to learn continuously and incrementally from each other rather than instructing them to implement a comprehensive remedial plan devised by the court alone or even in consultation with the parties.

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.

In an earlier research project midwives were asked to perform women-centered care focusing on the assumption that the physiological process in the second stage of labour could be trusted and that the midwives role should be encouraging and supportive rather than instructing.

(Marais Dep. Tr. 87 2-89 23). Thus, Dr. Marais appropriately provides the jury with guidance concerning the technically important factors for evaluating Dr. Hakala's event study, rather than instructing the jury on what its opinion should be, as Defendants implicitly suggest he should have done.

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.

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

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.

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.