Sentence examples for rather than shrinking from inspiring English sources

And its economy is still growing briskly, rather than shrinking, as ours is.

But, unlike most other economies, the national debt has been rising steadily for the past six years rather than shrinking.

But Dobbs is narrowing the gap, and his news program is one of the handful on cable whose audiences are growing, rather than shrinking.

John Cridland, the head of the CBI, an employers' group, said the "overwhelming view" of businesses is that the economy is flat, rather than shrinking.

The latest census figures show the gap between the wealthiest Americans and everybody else widening — rather than shrinking, as some economists expected — during the crash of 2008.

Role Laying out his vision of the future of the International Monetary Fund, Horst Kohler, the new managing director, said that rather than shrinking as some critics have suggested, the fund should expand its role.

Not surprisingly, it expands rather than shrinks the deficit.

But the mountain of debt grew rather than shrank.

Most businesses would rather see an entity grow profitably rather than shrink profitability".

Thailand is forecast to grow by 2.2% rather than shrink by 0.4%.

This gap has tended to widen, rather than shrink, in recent years.