Sentence examples for rather than laboring from inspiring English sources

It also hoped cities would coordinate anti-foreclosure efforts into a regional strategy rather than laboring at cross-purposes.

Best of all, rather than laboring under heavy government scrutiny as all banks are now doing in the aftermath of TARP, financial institutions of all stripes could have credibly told regulators to keep their distance.

Our staff, rather than laboring under the weight of annual budget cuts, will be able to devote their time to those applications that are more complex and take full advantage of their expertise.

Rather than laboring to maintain and increase American dominance, Obama, says D'Souza, is busy leveling the playing field so that no nation will have control of the world's resources and be in a position to call the tune.

The horse became on the one hand a sweet emissary of nature, who ought to have been frolicking in pastures rather than laboring, and on the other hand a raw beast, whose manure attracted flies and rats, and the strain of whose muscles was unsightly.

Provide sufficient unemployment benefits and people will opt to chill rather than labor.

"A World of Watchers" is a book you fall through rather than labor at.

They must address dividend policy — which currently skews returns toward capital rather than labor (i.e. consumers).

And he may be more inclined to stroke a key constituency -- the high-tech industry -- rather than labor.

Betty Crocker's cookbook for children evoked a world of patio entertaining, cookouts, parties cooking as leisure rather than labor.

As The Economist pointed out earlier this summer, much of the investment that's gone into China has funded capital-intensive projects, rather than labor-intensive ones.