Sentence examples for rather than renovating from inspiring English sources

"Our kids started to love it, so how could we leave?" Over the years, Mr. Donahue has made what has become a typical Avalon move: replacing, rather than renovating, a house.

What the Mayor should be doing is demanding more funding for genuinely affordable homes rather than accepting less, campaigning against the further sale of council homes, using his powers to prevent boroughs destroying rather than renovating existing homes for social rent, and seeking more powers to ensure that empty London properties are lived in.

Ms. Hauser has suggested she favors rebuilding rather than renovating Avery Fisher Hall, which is also the home of the Great Performers series.

Although most of Banbury's older buildings have been razed rather than renovated, the ruins of a 12th-century castle and 17th-century half-timbered houses remain.

Atul and Tamara Mehta would have preferred to sell their five-bedroom, three-bathroom home in the London suburb of Chiswick and move rather than renovate.

Town officials decided to build a new school rather than renovate because there was no room for expansion, and the septic system does not meet Department of Environmental Protection standards.

Carsten Henningsen, who founded Progressive Investment in 1982, said he decided to move to the Natural Capital Center rather than renovate its existing home, a Victorian-era mansion.

It's a sign of how low perception of the Hotmail brand has fallen that Microsoft feels the need to replace it entirely rather than renovate its existing service.

But Mr. Freeman, who had recently moved to New York from Paris, liked the genuine distress of the place so much that he gave it a good scrub instead of scrapping it, choosing to respect rather than renovate its rough grace.

The fact that Dejan built Arhiljevica rather than renovated it is evidence of his economic strength.

He said the trend has been to keep them rather than sell, renovating between pastors.