Sentence examples for rather than straddling from inspiring English sources

It was at this point that we decided that the center sensors used for line detecting should be located above the line, rather than straddling it.

Rather than straddling the worlds of playing and broadcasting, McCarver, like some high-level Soviet scientist, took everything he learned from one side, defected to the other and never looked back.

Two large cofferdams were constructed for the dam, but they were parallel to the river rather than straddling its width, so drilling into the canyon walls was not required.

He is a sporting legend and has delivered a sensational set of performances". There has been speculation that Brailsford's role will alter after the Games and that he will concentrate on British Cycling's professional road racing operation, Team Sky, rather than trying to straddle both Olympic track cycling and the retention of Bradley Wiggins Tourr de France title.

There has been speculation that Brailsford's role will alter after the Games and that he will concentrate on British Cycling's professional road racing operation, Team Sky, rather than trying to straddle both Olympic track cycling and the retention of Bradley Wiggins' Tour de France title.

My own preference would be to see a network of tidal stream generators positioned throughout the estuary, rather than one monolithic structure straddling the six miles between Cardiff and Weston.

These are people selling drugs, stealing, or shooting their buddies over trivia .Mr Obama's attraction is that he sounds thoughtful rather than angry, and that he straddles the fence between Cosbyism and Sharptonality.

Rather than admiring his sophisticated straddle on the Iraq war (he voted in favour of giving Mr Bush war powers but then relentlessly sniped at him for "rushing to war"), they despise it as being the typical fence-sitting of a Boston Brahmin whose middle name is Forbes, who was partly educated in Switzerland and who married a Heinz heiress.

How then, does one explain the long-term orientation ranking of 56? Rather than an indication of a nation "straddling the fence," between short-term and long-term orientation, this may instead point to a society at odds with its future.

But many of Obama's other picks reflect his apparent preference for practical-minded centrists who have straddled big policy debates rather than staking out the strongest pro-reform positions.

However, if the straddle was sold rather than purchased, the investor keeps the gross premium of $3.74 per contract if shares of the XLK settle at $21.00 at expiration next year.