Sentence examples for rather than supported from inspiring English sources

But those who protested were ridiculed rather than supported – including Jesse Jackson and his Rainbow Coalition.

Ajibola Lewis, the mother of Olaseni, said: "We have been victimised rather than supported by the system.

The transport secretary, Patrick McLoughlin, should have slammed their greed rather than supported them earlier this week.

He was referring to the legal standard for conviction: that guilt must be proved "beyond a reasonable doubt," rather than supported by the preponderance of the evidence.

"In some cases, BCC was actually a vehicle for promoting some of these problems, with headteachers being eased out through the profligate use of compromise agreements, rather than supported," the report stated.

The evil resulting from this is that the strain on all the services involved escapes attention, as those with a huge burden of work in the frontline of patching up society's ills are punished rather than supported.

"We want people to support the ballet as an institution, rather than supporting an individual artist".

Another theme was Ofsted and its focus on one-off judgments rather than supporting improvement.

However, more recently, the animals have been destroying, rather than supporting, local people's livelihoods.

She has already said she will "tackle" poor schools, rather than support them.

It will be aimed at changing the behaviour of perpetrators of violence, rather than supporting victims.