Sentence examples for rather than striking from inspiring English sources

Rather than striking immediately against Lee's scattered forces, McClellan waited 18 hours before moving.

But it seems that competitors are following Delta's lead, rather than striking back.

Rather than striking, the solution might be to sit tight and let events move teachers' way: a cosy berth looks more appealing in stormy economic times.

Passing through it and entering Hudson Bay in early August, he then followed the east coast southward, rather than striking boldly westward.

Rather than striking it big, Americans experienced what social mobility they actually had by standing on the shoulders of their parents.

The result is that a lot of well-acted rage by the three-member cast feels as if it's bouncing off the walls rather than striking a target.

Looking to eke rather than strike.

The problem with the law, in my mind, is that it should be expanded rather than struck down.

So did the inveterate cautiousness of Gordon Brown, who chose to wound rather than strike during Mr Blair's moment of greatest weakness in 2004.

"The harpsichord has something called a quill — a bird quill, actually — which plucks the string rather than strikes the string," said Keith Womer, the artistic director of La Follia, a baroque chamber ensemble that performs authentic versions of Bach, Handel and Vivaldi.

After a while, his lightning denunciations of most other writers dazzle rather than strike: Saul Bellow is 'a miserable mediocrity;' Eliot and Pound are 'big fakes'; Thomas Mann is a 'ponderous conversationalist;' Faulkner a joke.