Sentence examples for agree rather than from inspiring English sources

Hunt claimed the public want a more measured and sensible debate, and this would be helped if the parties spoke more often about the issues in the heath service on which they agree, "rather than constantly pretending there are vast disagreements".

Of course, be careful about such matters, and make sure you want to agree rather than contest the notice or issue.

Intuitively, the meaning is clearer when an answer choice is "strongly agree" rather than "4," a reality that is borne out in the research.

Yet when asked in a television interview whether he accepted evolutionary theory, he "preferred to agree," rather than express his true convictions in front of the general public.

And so on and on, and often owners agree rather than stop a sale of several hundred thousand dollars over a few thousand dollars more in extras given to the owner.

Despite these tales, the consultants, coaches and lawyer all agree: "Rather than get your boss fired, I would use my energies to find a new job," advises New York City career coach Connie Thanasoulis-Conniehio.

In addition, many of today's mergers command no premium, and are agreed rather than hostile takeovers.

And when he came up with the deliberately onerous sequester plan in order to prevent disaster, Republicans readily agreed rather than raise taxes a dime.

Wishful thinkers call this a soft landing, but another index, calculated by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, which is based on prices when contracts are agreed rather than at settlement, shows that average house prices have actually fallen by 7% since 2003; prices in once-hot Sydney have plunged by 16%.Britain's housing market has also cooled rapidly.

Texas Governor Rick Perry, who went so far as to suggest that Texas secede from the Union (to which most of the country heartily agreed) rather than get federal funds, is now demanding where the rest of his state's share of the booty is.

Completion of interviews was governed by pragmatic reasons (the number of trialists who ultimately agreed), rather than when there was no extra data gained from the latest interview (data saturation).