Sentence examples for rather than knocking from inspiring English sources

"He's reinforcing the behaviour rather than knocking it," he said.

But I would love to see all three of us work more closely together, rather than knocking each other's programmes.

Ultimately, it is more about preserving the essentials of the current system, and making them more palatable rather than knocking them down.

Movistar were overly concerned with eliminating Porte from the running rather than knocking Froome off his perch – and the Briton could breathe again.

It has crept up on famous names from the side entrances to their lives rather than knocking on the front door.

Early on we decided that if we met strangers on neutral territory rather than knocking on doors we would feel less like cold callers.

She builds us up, rather than knocks us down.

Rather than knock you over, it slowly fills a room, and lingers.

Taylor-Gooby began the battle to put the pavilion right rather than knock it down and the restoration it deserved took place two years ago.

"Rather than knock on the door as BBDO," he added, "it's a way to reach advertisers who have agency relationships so they don't have to disrupt those relationships".

His real breakthrough was, in a way, an entrepreneurial one: rather than knock one's head against the hard rock of penny-a-line journalism forever, he came up with a project large enough to get attention and attract subscribers.