Sentence examples for wing rather than from inspiring English sources

This year, as in the past, the league is trying to guide franchises that are under its wing rather than actively steering them.

Jackson mentioned that Bryant would not bring the ball up as much on offense, leaving him to create on the wing rather than play point guard.

"The reason we are putting them on the wing rather than in the classroom is because that's where prisoners are most of the time.

Also significant is the preference, for the second week running, for Tom Briscoe on the right wing rather than Josh Charnley, even though the Wigan man would have the edge based on this season's form.

The Rangers rookie Derek Stepan, playing on the left wing rather than at his usual center position, cut the gap to 2-1 withisis ninth goal of the season at 8 23 of the third.

The result was that often in the latter years New Labour became too easily attacked as "right wing" rather than "radical" and this contributed substantially to undermining the long-term sustainability of the project.

Plans for spending and taxing more can be made to look drearily left-wing rather than intriguingly progressive.

Blair has made only one detailed public attempt at explaining his faith, in a 1996 newspaper article arguing that Christianity led him to left-wing rather than right-wing politics.

The response of Merkel's government, and of most of the German press, has been measured, emphasizing the unique aspects of each attack: the Munich shooting turned out to be a case of right-wing, rather than Islamist, extremism; the kebab-shop murder a crime of passion; the Syrian asylum seeker a psychiatric case.

Most Malaysian women join their parties' women's wings rather than the mainstream party.

Since then, the stability problems have been licked by mounting the engines on the wings rather than in the tail.