Sentence examples for rather than scored from inspiring English sources

You'd have thought they had won the lottery rather than scored against Burnley but that is a sign of how far we have come.

Protecting his assets, rather than scoring big, was also the reason he took to hedging.

Barnes was immediately impressed with Thomas's on-court mentality: a focus on rebounding rather than scoring.

We need more research on how to understand and remedy this rather than score political points to undermine NHS staff.

Congratulated for his out-of-character selflessness in providing rather than scoring goals, Anelka responded that it was not his preference, not his role.

Additionally, folk and rock music communicated the anger and confusion of the time, rather than scoring points with cheeky internal rhymes and charming pathos.

Clint Mathis of the MetroStars, who last week became the first player in Major League Soccer to score five goals in a game, attributed his achievement to luck and teamwork rather than scoring ability.

"Still, Frank's comments today are a positive as they suggest Democrats want to get a bill enacted rather than score political points by goading Republicans into killing a more radical proposal".

It is only when things spin out of control that the inherent brutality of the situation becomes clear, but here again the movie poses intractable conundrums rather than scoring easy points.

Brian Burke of Advanced NFL Stats assessed the Jaguars' strategy of instructing Maurice Jones-Drew to take a knee at the Jets' 1-yard line rather than scoring late in Jacksonville's victory Sunday: "It improved the Jaguars' chances of winning by 17 percentage points.

One eyewitness account in Dougan's book said that a Ukrainian player, Alexei Klimenko, dribbled through the Germans near the end, then kicked the ball upfield rather than scoring in a final act of humiliating the occupiers.