Sentence examples for towards rather from inspiring English sources

Most of these are moving towards, rather than away from, democratisation.

But not only is this feeling a relatively new one, it's something that hasn't come easy – something I have worked towards rather than an innate given.

The report was damning, but press attention soon turned away from Bush towards Rather, his producer Mary Mapes, and her team at CBS, who were accused of bad journalism or (worse) having been duped.

For the first decade of its existence, Eurovision tended towards rather staid French chanson-style songs that bore little resemblance to the youthful rock and pop music dominating the charts.

What is her compulsion to move towards, rather than away from the things that most terrify her? "From a very early time, I understood that I only learn from things I don't like.

Drawing a deep breath I set off for the camp, this time running towards rather than away from the screen – meaning I can't even identify any good hiding places in advance.

But the real difference today is the shift in attitude towards politics, rather than towards business.

Information that staff collected tended to be directed towards discharge rather than towards better care.

The tradeoff between learning effort and communication efficiency seems to be biased naturally towards memorization rather than towards logical reasoning.

The authors argued that vaccination skewed the cytokine pattern towards immunosuppression rather than towards bacterial clearance (Schmaler et al, 2011).

In this way, kin discrimination serves to direct potentially beneficial behaviour towards relatives, rather than towards unrelated individuals.