Sentence examples for rather than mobilizing from inspiring English sources

There were times, during the height of revolutionary protests when the state ceded control of the square to the protesters, erecting walls to protect government buildings rather than mobilizing the force it would take to drive them out.

Rather than mobilizing the people and then cutting a deal from a position of strength, the White House tended to seek a deal first and then use OFA to mobilize people to fight for the pre-compromised position.

By failing to identify the outcome of these shared resources as a collective good, citizens are reduced to taking their designated share as a handout from the elites that control the resources rather than mobilizing to shape their utilization.

By repeatedly trumpeting the need for individuals to adopt more sustainable lifestyles, we may be alienating, rather than mobilizing, individuals.

Es22 is located at the ER, implicating that it rather counteracts RE formation at the ER than mobilizing cytosolic RE depots [20].

Rather than exercising leadership and mobilizing the nation's resources to rescue a city that was literally underwater, he was passive, leaving the job to an underfunded and badly managed federal agency.

The scientific advance which improved defining debris flow risk was the recognition that nearly all post-fire debris flows are initiated through runoff-dominated erosion by surface overland flow rather than infiltration-triggered failure mobilizing discrete landslide masses (Cannon [2001]; Cannon et al. [2003]; Cannon and Gartner [2005]; Parise and Cannon [2012]).

We're angry that our administration, under now-admittedly false pretenses, has caused more than 30,000 deaths; has made our nation less safe rather than more; and has mobilized much of the world community, not just the the Islamic extremists he invokes to frighten us, against us.

When do emotions mobilize, rather than paralyze or confuse us?

The White House seems to view popular backlash against financial abuses as a dangerous force to be bottled up, rather than one to be mobilized to offset the concentrated power of elites.

The object appears to have been to exploit the mineral wealth directly rather than through intermediaries and to mobilize the manpower of much of Spain into an army that could match that of Rome.