Sentence examples for than lay from inspiring English sources

Some schools did little more than lay a wreath at the flagpole and recite the pledge.

But rather than lay off workers, the shifts will start to alternate work weeks.

Rather than lay off workers, companies in Japan typically ask them to retire early voluntarily.

The difference is that Germany encourages firms to reduce work hours rather than lay off workers.

It is now free to prosecute cases itself rather than lay them before the attorney-general, who may ignore them.

Benefits could be used to supplement wages at businesses that cut hours rather than lay off workers, for instance.

Rather than lose, rather than lay down arms like this, a Japanese soldier was supposed to die.

"We may not be able to do much more than lay some ground for the future," he says.

But the Council, he proposed, had done nothing less than lay the groundwork for a "thorough reappraisal" of Catholicism.

Why not make this the thrust of your piece, rather than lay blame and responsibility once again, on Israel?

In Austria, Germany and Belgium, the governments paid companies to put workers on short-time work rather than lay them off.