Ignorance and greed, rather than necessity, breed the chief menace in our national life.
A number of libraries have claimed the honor of being the first to establish children's work--a fact which in itself seems to show that the movement was general rather than sporadic.
The question should preferably be of such nature that the child can be helped to find it rather than be obliged to wait while the librarian does the work.
The whole seems to have been characterized by solidity and strength, rather than by any attempt at architectural elegance.
The character of the Peruvian mind led to imitation, in fact, rather than invention, to delicacy and minuteness of finish, rather than to boldness or beauty of design.
One was appropriated to the Inca, and was garnished with the sumptuous decorations befitting a royal residence, rather than a military post.
He stipulated that the associates should secure to him the sum of one thousand pesos de oro in requital of his good-will, and they eagerly closed with his proposal, rather than be encumbered with his pretensions.
These were by no means the chevalier's sentiments, but he refrained from pursuing the subject then, wishing to soothe, rather than irritate, his suffering friend.
I should have taken her for a lady of rank, from her quiet, dignified mien, or at least a well-bred bourgeoise, rather than a member of a band of strolling players.
A religious or either sex devoted to prayer and meditation, rather than to active works of charity.
If, indeed, rather than accept a rent of five hundred francs for my apartment, I prefer to occupy and enjoy it, it is clear that I shall become my own debtor for a rent equal to that which I deny myself.
Why should the price of a loan be governed by the skill and strength of the borrower, rather than by the utility sacrificed by the proprietor?
But, in these same countries, property is expressive, rather than attributive, of the qualifications necessary to the exercise of these rights.
Would it not be preferable to sustain at Constantinople a life of poverty and servitude, rather than to reign the undoubted monarch of the mountain of Papua?
He spoke freely of his failure, and with a confidence that seemed inspired by his former trust in Sewell, whom, indeed, he treated like an intimate friend, rather than an acquaintance of two or three meetings.
His name was Alexius; and the epithet of great [201] was applied perhaps to his stature, rather than to his exploits.
A more classical tradition recognized the figures of Bellerophon and Pegasus; and the free attitude of the steed seemed to mark that he trod on air, rather than on the earth.
It was strangely indistinct, however, and less like articulate words than an unshaped sound, such as would be the utterance of feeling and sympathy, rather than of the intellect.
Thence, swelling over the rim of moss-grown stones, the water stole away under the fence, through what we regret to call a gutter, rather than a channel.
Neither had she forfeited her proper gift of making things look real, rather than fantastic, within her sphere.
They can work sturdily; but being built for fighting and for heavy pulling chiefly, their usefulness is restricted to those directions in which force, rather than skill, is required.
The priest was surprised, rather than pained, by Hoichi's reticence: he felt it to be unnatural, and suspected something wrong.
Why females, rather than males, should have been evolutionally specialized into soldiery and laborers may not be nearly so simple a question as it appears.
It was by holding session among so many implicit safeguards that he taught, rather than by precepts.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rather than" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
