Sentence examples for rather than tried from inspiring English sources

Its endorsement of the party at the 1970 general election deferred to readers rather than tried to browbeat them: "This … far-from-perfect Labour government has just about earned the right to … another term of office.

Today's decision may have been the prudent one, given the costs of unemployment, but I wish Mr Obama who is unusually adept at explaining complex causal reasoning when he chooses to do so had done just that rather than tried to hide it in the news cycle.

The latest attacks have drawn attention to a larger and more dangerous problem: a feeble criminal justice system that offers no protection for witnesses and has a paucity of police officers, and in which suspects of terrorism and other crimes are regularly killed in skirmishes with law enforcement authorities, rather than tried in courts of law.

Behind every great woman, there is often another great woman who has encouraged her and listened to her and advised her, rather than tried to compete with her.

Prof David Nutt, professor of neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London and a former government adviser, said fewer young people might have died from recreational drug toxicity if society had "listened and learned from Shulgin rather than tried to suppress his knowledge and ideas".

Those who've come after have more often deferred to that spirit rather than tried to keep up with it.

header rather than trying to do WebAuth.

D'Ambrosio follows the wondering rather than trying to resolve it.

Rather than trying harder, they change the rules.

Rather than trying to get us to conform.

Rather than try to combat cheating, I encourage it.