Sentence examples for rather than lift from inspiring English sources

"I call it the Meteor," he said, relying on compression and propulsion rather than lift.

At first, I was awkward and ignorant of technique: Push the heavy snow aside rather than lift it.

An earlier version of the main photo caption referred to Bowie on Top of the Pops, rather than 'Lift Off'.

They always seem too intelligent, or grand, for the situation they find themselves in, as though the world will always drag them down, rather than lift them up.

And rather than lift the government's revenue the informal cash made it tougher to track income and profits, and thus harder to calculate and collect taxes.

(Relatively minor adjustments of vocabulary may, however, be made: an Englishman speaking to an American may employ the word "elevator" rather than "lift" and so on).

Try to push snow out of the way rather than lifting heavy loads.

Mansfield reassessed his view of politics, concluding that "faith-based conservatives are either purposefully, or inadvertently, looking punitively at other people" rather than "lifting each other up".

And as with the gas-powered RAV4, the rear cargo door swings awkwardly to the side to open rather than lifting upward.

As Mansfield told me, he concluded that "faith-based conservatives are either purposefully or inadvertently looking punitively at other people" rather than "lifting each other up".

Partly in response to the turbulence in credit markets, the European Central Bank decided last week to leave interest rates unchanged rather than lifting them as previously planned.