Sentence examples for rather than restore from inspiring English sources

In Britain the VAT incentive to replace rather than restore buildings – the result of builder lobbying – is flagrantly anti-green.

Rather than restore it at a cost of $650,000, the railroad that owned it shut it down.

Having established exactly what the burial site contains, they hope to create a plan to conserve, rather than restore or retouch it.

AUTOMOBILES An article last Sunday about the movement to preserve classic cars, rather than restore them, misstated the number of Shelby Daytona Coupes that were made.

Rather than restore some benefits to workers, the company would like to apply its bonus criteria for salaried employees to factory workers as well.

That provided the environment of laxity, confusion and doubt in which these abuses occurred, leading bishops to cover up rather than restore discipline -- and so get dubbed "fundamentalist".

Rather than restoring companies to solvency, receivers often drive them deeper into debt.

An adopted Yorkshireman himself, he revived the 1970s policy of flattening ancient mill and mining towns rather than restoring them.

Rather than restoring their king, the Romans replaced the kingship with two annually elected magistrates called consuls.

The United States should be working to comply with the 2005 deadline, rather than restoring some of the few quotas it has already lifted.

The current approach to improving governance is based on a belief that, generally, everything is sound and needs a polish rather than restoring.