Sentence examples for rather than sacked from inspiring English sources

After an hour-long meeting with Mr Benn on Monday, Mr Corbyn has reportedly backed down from removing him as Shadow Foreign Secretary, while Shadow Defence Secretary Maria Eagle - another top figure under threat - is expected to be moved rather than sacked.

While Paolo Di Canio was merely sold by Sheffield Wednesday, rather than sacked, after shoving the referee Paul Alcock to the floor in 1998, Independiente took a rather dimmer view of a similar incident in 2013.

In a recession they suffer first: rather than sacking workers, big companies are cutting purchases from suppliers.

That is why they merely separated the roles of chairman and chief executive, rather than sacking Mr Eisner as so many of the shareholders were clearly demanding.

Newcastle United's management seemed in a forgiving mood, too, fining Bowyer £200,000 (six weeks' wages) rather than sacking hm for attacking Dyer mid-game.

A third is that during the financial crisis employers, habitually short of skilled workers, hung on to their staff, reducing their hours rather than sacking them; the result was reduced output per worker.

Asked if the ECB should have simply not selected Pietersen rather than sacking him, Swann replied: "Maybe, it might have been a cleaner way of doing things and certainly a lot less bloodletting".

She would rather run on her record as leader of a big-tent government that presided over an economic boom and then battled the subsequent slump.It may help that unemployment looks likely to rise by less than once feared, thanks partly to the coalition's policy of subsidising companies to employ workers part time rather than sacking them.

Rather than sacking the former Toronto manager and Newcastle, Leeds, Sheffield United and Plymouth No2 on the spot, Newcastle's board had been persuaded that he is precisely the right sort of character to remain at the helm until the end of the season.

In a bad year, they can cut back on bonuses rather than sack a load of trained staff.

Rather than sack him at that point, Dumbarton's board decided to give him a new contract.