Sentence examples for accept rather than from inspiring English sources

Better to accept rather than compound the error, though.

In supporting the bill, anti-abortion legislators and lobbyists chose to accept rather than fight this reality.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has suffered a series of defeats there, defeats that it has chosen to accept rather than risk an appeal to the Supreme Court.

They were expected to accept, rather than risk a second lost season.The new contract is said to include rule changes, too, to liven up games with smaller pads for goalies and penalty shootouts.

Jonathan Chait says that "when the question comes to what concessions the Democrats are going to have to accept, rather than what policy makes the most sense, raising the Medicare age seems like a sensible bone to throw the right".

The inspectors usually issue findings a few days after their visit; they can seek or demand changes to promote safety, which producers usually accept rather than risk a delay in performances, Mr. Rosales said.

Inside Out teaches emotional acceptance, which is the essential idea that emotions need to be recognized and accepted, rather than suppressed and denied.

It was something she accepted rather than embraced.

Perhaps one or two of us might be accepted, rather than the family as a group.

Mr. Haider needs to be reassured that he is accepted rather than ostracized, Mr. Unterberger said.

Or, as Ms. Satran says, "Be open rather than skeptical, curious rather than dismissive, accepting rather than defensive".