Sentence examples for rather than sponsored from inspiring English sources

ACCURACY -- The narrator says Mr. Lazio is behind the legislation, but Mrs. Clinton's staff disputed some of his claims, and his press office released a statement indicating that he had supported rather than sponsored some of the bills, like the Breast Cancer Treatment Act.

Bill Burton, a spokesman for the Obama campaign said, "Both campaigns have indicated that any additional appearances will be open to all networks for broadcast on TV or Internet like the presidential commission debates rather than sponsored by a single network or news organization".

Rather than sponsored ads, they appear as a photo from a friend, with multiple people tagged in.

Rather than sponsor a successful team, they help a team climb from the lower leagues into the Champions League and become part of the story.

Simon Jack, the Today's business reporter, is sceptical - suggesting firms should focus on not mis-selling dodgy product and not abusing markets, rather than sponsoring the local football team ( ala Northern Rock) or fretting about picking up litter.

This grand dither also occurred in the period in which the National Lottery came into being, which should surely have had few more important tasks – rather than sponsor centres of bogus ecology, highly branded vacuity or the Millennium Dome – than to help fix Stonehenge.

Usually they start on one of the “mini tours,” privately owned affairs that pay prize money out of entry fees rather than sponsor cash.

Rather than sponsor the event itself, they've actually sponsored individual delegates.

And al-Qaeda's attacks—even September 11th have not been all that expensive, especially for a terrorist organisation rich enough in the past to have sponsored states, rather than be sponsored by them.Increasingly, though, al-Qaeda should probably be regarded less as an organisation than as a movement.

She has dismantled most of the controls on local NGOs: rather than be sponsored by some government department, all they have to do is register with her.

It also remains to be seen how those friendships survive the friendly, but pointed, rivalry and pressure that came from competing for their country rather than their sponsored teams.