Sentence examples for than instructed from inspiring English sources

What a particular joy for a teenage reader, to be challenged rather than instructed.

Unfortunately, anyone who has spent time in the hospital as a patient or a physician knows how haphazardly such actions are performed, and as Samuel Johnson wrote, "Man needs more to be reminded than instructed".

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there were no plans to review cases she prosecuted for them, as decisions on disclosure lay with CPS lawyers rather than instructed barristers.

Citigroup also proposed salaries in cash and stock far higher than instructed, and it ignored the guideline that salarized stock would have to be held for two to four years.

Alice, the grand theorist of the group, later engages in batty moon-worship; Daffy prefers, in the final analysis, to be bedded rather than instructed; the clever (though slippery) Layla accidentally-on-purpose fails to disclose to her co-directors that the company's principal backer is in fact a man.

It could also be questioned whether spontaneous, thus uninstructed, entrainment is generally more beneficial with regard to exercise performance than instructed entrainment.

Teaching, Regan says, is "much more than instructing D&T," he says.

Jesus isn't a hedonist or an epicurean, but he clearly isn't an ascetic, either: he feeds the multitudes rather than instructing them how to go without.

Instinctively, when he had something important to tell an actor, he would huddle with him privately, rather than instruct in front of the others.

When teachers become glorified therapists rather than educators – by trying to treat young people rather than instruct them, by massaging young minds rather than filling them up with the knowledge – they can unwittingly contribute to the problem.

Agreeing to read out the players' grievance - rather than instructing one of them to summon the ball to do it himself - was the crowning indignity of his ignominious reign.