Sentence examples for rise rather from inspiring English sources

The balance of firms expecting business to rise rather than fall rose from +44%to+46%6%.

As the population density of urban areas has increased, so has the need for buildings that rise rather than spread.

The company hopes that St Mary's proves the case for the need for sustainability standards to rise, rather than fall.

But otherwise the novelists are all on the rise, rather than at the pinnacle of their careers.

In the north-west, 62% more chartered surveyors predict prices over the next three months will rise, rather than fall.

oommph I would advise putting forward a positive case for a pay rise rather than a comparative one.

He crowed, too, that MGM is moving its offices there soon, four years after the Creative Artists Agency, Hollywood's most powerful talent agency, and a rival agency, ICM, decamped for the high-rise, rather sterile environs of Century City.

Last week, Mr. Rubenstein signed another contract to buy an entirely different kind of property, uptown rather than downtown, low-rise rather than high-rise, limestone rather than glass, and unpolished — needing millions of dollars of renovation — rather than finished.

It is, in the end, the mark of a country rising rather than falling.

The company had absorbed the previous price rises rather than passing them on to consumers.

The classic 007 bass line rises, rather obviously, in the piano.