More than seventy-five percent of students choose to print their essay on the test rather than write in cursive.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

A short time later,John Carter, the Princess and their friend, the green Martian woman Sola, attempt to escape rather than face death.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

There was a new effort to build wealth from the bottom up, rather than from the top down.

VOA: special.2011.03.24

The idea is for NASA to buy services for space transportation, rather than spacecraft with existing designs.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

"Rather than a failure to collect or share intelligence," he said, "this was a failure to connect and understand the intelligence that we already had."

VOA: special.2010.01.09

It makes sense for people to sing rather than say these words, because the emotions are so huge, the conflicts are so large and so real."

VOA: special.2010.06.11

He supports focusing on Mars rather than returning to the moon.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

"Rather than try to bring a lot of infrastructure to them and expect them to learn how to use the Internet, the idea was to make a technology that even Grandma could use, figuring that Grandma could probably walk up to a box and push a button."

VOA: special.2009.10.12

Local officials are urging people to donate money, rather than more items, to help defray the cost of relief efforts.

VOA: standard.2010.01.18

"I believe this war to be a tragic failure that continues to undermine rather than advance our national security interests."

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

But the matter is far from settled. President Sarkozy wants parliament to pass a nonbinding resolution, rather than a law.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

Let's do the research to try to fix the problems rather than changing the whole diet of the human race."

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

She finds it gives young students a chance to discover - rather than be taught - math concepts.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

Mr.Bush says the main thing Americans can do is to send money, rather than other forms of assistance.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16