Sentence examples for rather than overseeing from inspiring English sources

Rather than overseeing a workshop, he almost certainly worked alone, possibly with one assistant.

Fewer than one in 10 of the UK's biggest companies have a female executive director – involved in managing the company directly, rather than overseeing its management – according to the research published today.

But with a government now under Prince Albert, who acceded to the throne in 2005, keen to present itself as financially responsible rather than overseeing, in Somerset Maugham's unbeatable phrase, "a sunny place for shady people", state funds were not made available in the quantities required for modern top-flight football.

Their effort would be most effectively targeted at setting up and monitoring the mechanisms at facility level that support staff performance, rather than overseeing individual health workers.

Participants also indicated that the Ministries of Health and Tourism and the domestic private health sector, while supportive of medical tourism, have participated in a more limited consultative role rather than overseeing policy development or coordinating private investment in health facilities.

Havel opposed the split and stepped down from his position as president in 1992, rather than oversee the process.

The Snowden affair has raised new questions - including about whether the committee was too quick to defend spies rather than oversee them.

States, rather than federal officials overseeing vast bureaucracies, are often the first recipients of public complaints and are therefore first to investigate misdeeds.

LU has said concessions had already been made, including a promise that a supervisor would work out of every station, rather than one worker overseeing up to five stations.

Backed by Hitler's strong support (the dictator stated, "Speer, I'll sign anything that comes from you"), he divided the armament field according to weapon system, with experts rather than civil servants overseeing each department.

Why simply punish CIA lackeys, rather than those who oversaw them?