Sentence examples for rather than trailing from inspiring English sources

Rather than trailing its EU partners in economic league tables and indices, Greece appears to have bounced back.

Had they been enjoying mid-table security, they would probably have led at the interval rather than trailing 13-8, but Greig Tonks, the Scotland fly-half they recruited last month, missed three kicks from in front of the posts, from close-in and medium-range.

It seems to me that we are going to find ourselves listed with a list of states who are frankly a roll call of dishonour, when I want to see us leading international policy on this area rather than trailing it.

Rather than trailing Obama, Romney's campaign is actually "in an enviable position," Hewitt stressed.

The rate of registration for whites exceeded that of blacks by 4percentt, rather than trailing it.

Their inconspicuous tentacles originate from the corners of the mouth, running in convoluted grooves and spreading out over the inner surface of the lobes (rather than trailing far behind, as in the Cydippida).

Rather than trail off to zero over time, as they would in a typical, gradual weaning process, the barium levels in the molar abruptly dropped to nothing.

We found that a number of pancreatic cancer cells used TRAIL-R2 rather than TRAIL-R1 to initiate apoptosis signalling.

However, subsequentially it was shown that the biochemical preparation of TRAIL rather than TRAIL itself was responsible for the observed toxic effect on hepatocytes [ 10].

SUSAN M. FULTON Picking the Hardware COMPUTERS being set up to use speech recognition software should be on the leading edge rather than the trailing edge.

In the study of geographic range boundary development, the focus has been on leading rather than on trailing edge dynamics.