Sentence examples for recently, rather from inspiring English sources

Recently, rather than designing a new university, much of the work at U.T.-Brownsville has been dismantling an old one.

Witness the now-orthodox but until recently rather fringe opinion that the second amendment fully protects an individual's right to own whatever guns and accessories he pleases.

In Zakaria's birthplace in the north-east, schoolchildren learn Kurdish, banned until recently, rather than Arabic, the national language.Syria is gradually breaking into three.

At the end of a night of drinking recently, rather than hailing a cab, Trisha DiFazio tapped an app called Lyft on her phone to summon a ride.

There are other internal challenges, such as the everyday segregation of men and women and this has actually increased recently, rather than decreased".

To some British ears, Kerry's reference to France, "our oldest ally", was a none-too-subtle dig at Britain, our less old, but still quite old, although recently rather delinquent ally.

It has recently done rather well in the Balkans.

Providence, once a fading New England industrial city, has recently, and rather famously, redeveloped its center city into a tourist attraction.

The developers made no mistake, however, in the architects they chose: Whitney Warren and Charles D. Wetmore had recently done rather well with a somewhat larger project several blocks uptown: Grand Central Terminal.

Burning ethanol made from sugar thus returns to the atmosphere what was recently there, rather than adding carbon that was previously underground.

This is not British Telecommunications, whose stumbles have captured headlines recently, but rather the other British phone company, the Vodafone Group, the darling of analysts and the industry's front-runner.