Sentence examples for rather than penalizing from inspiring English sources

The government chose to bail out the banking industry rather than penalizing its bondholders.

The perversity of a payment system that actually rewards incompetence rather than penalizing it seems self-evident.

"Essentially what they're doing is giving people an added bonus rather than penalizing the public," she said, comparing The Bee's two levels of news access to the difference between first class and coach seats on airplanes.

In using public money to rescue private institutions, these critics say, policy makers effectively rewarded banks that traded with companies that were in trouble, rather than penalizing them, and that encouraged risky behavior.

Mr. Brown has questioned why the New York Fed, despite knowing that some banks were reporting false rates, pushed for broad reforms of the rate-setting process rather than penalizing the illegal behavior.

Comcast has set out to restrict usage to the very top percentile of users, rather than penalizing all users of a particular protocol.

I prefer the suggestion of a friend that the tour organizers should pay me extra, rather than penalize me, for taking such a wild gamble.

The goal is to combat those entities who regularly engage in deceptive advertising, rather than penalize sites where a rogue ad may have sneaked in, such as through an ad network.

It's time for comprehensive immigration reform that will benefit rather than penalize people on both sides of the border.

"We urge the administration to take measured, commercially meaningful actions consistent with international obligations that benefit U.S. exporters, importers, and investors, rather than penalize the American consumer and jeopardize recent gains in American competitiveness," they said.

Germany has created a financial system that rewards, rather than penalizes, those companies that think about the long run, rather than just short run stock price valuation.