Sentence examples for trial rather than a from inspiring English sources

He said he had asked for a judge trial, rather than a jury trial.

Brelo opted for a bench trial, rather than a jury, so the verdict will be decided by Cuyahoga County common pleas judge John P O'Donnell alone.

It's no accident that Montaigne, holed up in his tower in Aquitaine (a sort of 16th-century double mattress), chose to name his new literary form the essaie - in other words, an attempt or trial rather than a finished product.

"In pursuing their case against me, the FA seems almost wilfully to have cast me as the accused in the trial rather than a prosecution witness acting properly in the interests of justice.

To those who say that if that were so, Mr. Rich should have had his lawyers securing a speedy trial rather than a pardon, Mr. Quinn said the furor of the last few days had convinced him that Mr. Rich and his partner, Pincus Green, were right to fear facing trial.

Liang has opted for a jury trial, rather than a judge-only trial, and Brown said it remains possible that Liang will testify in his defense.

If it is a well-controlled, randomized, double-blind trial rather than an "open trial"—in which the investigator is not "blinded" and knows who is the subject and who is the control the patient runs the risk of being given a placebo rather than the active drug.

He thought we should make sure that people understand what the page is about and can make a thoughtful choice to sign up for a trial, rather than an accidental one.

Our study was an effectiveness trial, rather than an efficacy trial, with the programme implemented as if in a broader community roll-out.

A limitation of our study is that because of the nature of the trial (i.e. an effectiveness trial rather than an efficacy trial), there was no close control or exact measurement of the exercise intensity by the researchers.

Second, we are conducting an effectiveness trial rather than an efficacy trial; our aim is to maximise generalisability of our findings to usual clinical practice and we therefore have maximised external validity.