The phrase "and rather continues" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in a context where you want to emphasize that something is ongoing or persistent, but it would need to be rephrased for clarity.
Example: "The discussion about the project is lengthy and rather continues beyond the initial meeting."
Alternatives: "and instead persists" or "and instead carries on".
If parliament does not get back to what we elected it to do and rather continues to be fixated on what women wear, I'm contemplating a dress code protest of my own, as a way to protect my wallet from the itchy hands of a broke government.
Otherwise, it ignores the selected waiting time and rather continues from the scheduled update time point after updating the state according to the corresponding delayed reaction.
Certainly, the advent of technology solves nothing automatically but rather continues to pose problems and multiply uncertainties.
Kempelen was quoted as referring to the invention as a "mere bagatelle", as he was not pleased with its popularity and would rather continue work on steam engines and machines that replicated human speech.
Continue the journey out of the ashes, it never is fixed but rather continues to heal.
The more energetic ions, of hundreds of keV and higher, however, rather continue their magnetic drift around the Earth uninterruptedly and these ions form the symmetric ring current ion population.
For Israelis, it doesn't affect their lives very much, and they would rather continue with the situation as is than change it," Munayyer said.
When we started using it, it looked a strange, unusual, peculiar term, and many colleagues suggested rather "continuing care".
Let us not fail them, but let us rather continue and accelerate our commitment so that in two years' time we look back with pride on what we have done for them.
Edna was heartbroken not to be chosen, Dean was phlegmatic and Heather decided she would rather continue as she was.
Another would rather continue ratcheting up economic, political and rhetorical pressure.
