Sentence examples for rather than stood from inspiring English sources

Cranes are "rigs"; they were derricks back when they sat on top of the building rather than stood beside it.

CVS said it could not "maintain its commitment to excellent customer service" if cashiers sat rather than stood.

Lying during a conflict may seem like a good, defensive way of getting someone to leave you alone but it binds you even more tightly to that person because you've made things less clear and have evaded your real needs rather than stood up for yourself.

Rather than stand with the jury, she waited in a clerk's office.

Sometimes, in some situations, you want to fit in, rather than stand out.

A clutch of recent conversions and new developments seek to fit in rather than stand out.

Rather than stand in Venezuela's 1973 presidential elections, he backed Carlos Andrés Pérez as the AD candidate.

Intersectionality The idea that all prejudices intersect, rather than stand on their own.

Rather than stand on the sidelines, Michael Rakowitz takes a can-do approach to political art.

The government is quite right to intervene into the financial situation rather than stand idly by.

Oddly, the mourners sit, rather than stand, at a funeral in a Russian church.