Sentence examples for rather than risen from inspiring English sources

Yields in the US have, of course, plunged rather than risen.

Temperatures have plummeted, rather than risen: a new ice age is on the way, and the only salvation lies in journeying to Africa.

By a 3-to-1 margin, according to a Washington Post poll, the public now believes that the level of ethics and honesty in the government has declined rather than risen under Mr. Bush.

"State tax revenues fell by 3.5percentt -- $5 billion -- in the third quarter, the first time these revenues have fallen rather than risen in the 10 years that we have collected data," said Donald Boyd, deputy director of the Center for the Study of the States in Albany.

For the first time in a long time, obesity rates had leveled off rather than risen almost everywhere in the country.

But inflation fell rather than rising.

Rather than rising 1.3%, group sales were actually down 0.4%.

And overwhelmingly, the reason was falling real share prices rather than rising real dividends.

First, Japan is one of those countries where drug prices fall rather than rise.

So Irish interest rates, rather than rising, will fall to Germany's 3.3% by year-end.

The actual value of transactions in Bitcoins has fallen rather than rising.