Sentence examples for rather than returns from inspiring English sources

So not everything goes back, and some things that do are presented as gifts, rather than returns, to avoid setting a dangerous precedent.

Alternatively, lending could be based on relationships, rather than returns, with the companies that extend credit using the same wretched loan criteria as China's banks traditionally have—but with even less pressure to reveal their problems.If so, the amount of poor-quality lending will one day become so large that the problems can no longer be hidden.

Most of these revisits by inexperienced bees were immediate returns to the flower just visited (68·51% of all revisits, n=3474), rather than returns to different flower locations and were therefore uninformative with respect to the core structure of routes.

Keep unity after victory rather than return to infighting (Ukraine).

He resigned from the service rather than return to submarines.

The government would begin focusing on its priorities rather than returning the banks to profitability.

Would they really resign out of spite rather than return to pre-Bush-era tax rates?

Before departing for England the French squad remained at Clairefontaine rather than return to their families.

Rather than return to faded glory, Drogba listened to whatever else was out there.

Rather than return to England, bankrupt, they set up house in Vermont.

Manningham seems likely to hit the open market rather than return.