Sentence examples for rather than opposed from inspiring English sources

Javid also claimed that the UK had led calls in Europe for higher tariffs against Chinese steel, rather than opposed them.

We don't have to think about what we like, but thinking can be part of our pleasure, rather than opposed to it.

The Labor senator Stephen Conroy says he is "absolutely gobsmacked" to hear Tony Abbott now wishes he had supported the former Gillard government's people-swap deal with Malaysia, rather than opposed it.

In the course of his career, he has been denounced by feminists, who saw his nudes as throwbacks to earlier eras in which women were objectified by male painters, and by postmodernists, who considered his large canvases luxury objects that exemplified rather than opposed the excesses of the 1980s art market.

The great man or woman, Cavell holds, is required for rather than opposed to democracy: "essential to the criticism of democracy from within" (CHU, 3).

Although A and C are more dissimilar in respect of hue, overall they resemble each other more than either resembles B because they are both pale, quite close to white, not dark, quite close to black, and also because they do not differ maximally with respect to hue (yellow and orange are contiguous rather than opposed hues on the color wheel).

The junior Republican savored the rare experience of creating, rather than opposing, legislation.

He said that rather than oppose S.U.V.'s outright, he believed they should be more efficient.

"Simply by talking about keeping the pound rather than opposing the euro, we added 15 points".

But, politically, it became a problem for the Administration to deal with and to manage, rather than oppose.

Their positions on foreign policy "reflect rather than oppose what the Egyptian center is thinking," he said.