Sentence examples for rather than practicing from inspiring English sources

This meant getting away from the course, so he and his wife, Angie, and his caddie, Ted Scott, went to a water park rather than practicing Tuesday.

In making these sweet beers, some brewers are said to use prepared yeasts rather than practicing spontaneous fermentation — the benchmark of a lambic beer.

Vice President Dick Cheney would do well to turn his attention to the larger issue of resolving the mess he has helped create, rather than practicing active amnesia.

Rather than practicing the winner-take-all aggression endemic to professional sports, he believes business leaders should follow the path of cooperation and compromise.

Strickland would perhaps be starting at shooting guard for Dallas, one of the league's most surprising, entertaining and successful teams, rather than practicing hard and playing little for the Knicks.

But his California Western degree didn't get him far in New York, until a headhunter for a law firm called, looking for a "managing attorney," a job that turned out to be administering the work of the firm rather than practicing law.

But rather than practice specifically for their next opponent, the Miami Dolphins on Oct. 5, the Giants spent two days running a virtual training camp.

In a 2006 book called "Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon," he argued that religion ought to be studied rather than practiced.

About one-third of new doctors say they would prefer to be employed by hospitals, rather than practice on their own.

"She has the requisite toughness," Mr. Lapine said, "but also has an ability to make sense of everything in a song, to make it sound personal rather than practiced.

Constraint (U_{v1}^{P}left (w_{1}right) geq U_{v2}^{P}left (w_{2}requires requires that the efficient doctor will not be worse off accepting a partnership by practice 1 rather than practice 2. Using expressions (7), the condition simplifies to w_{1}geq w_{2}-2(b_{1}-b_{2}) (8).