Sentence examples for but rather leave from inspiring English sources

You might wish at times that they wouldn't so thoroughly corner the mood of each poem, but rather leave some room for interpretation.

But, he added, the S.E.C. should not impose an "arbitrary definition" of what constitutes a significant error, but rather leave it to the agency to decide what is significant and what is minor.

Suddenly your navigation device tells you not just how to get from A to B, but also that you shouldn't leave at 8 a.m. and take Fifth Avenue, but rather leave at 8 10 and take a different street".

In fact, the Obama administration has shown a consistent preference for conservative policy proposals -- ones that don't throw the baby out with the bathwater but rather leave already existing structures in place, but reform them subtly.

(The general wisdom is that he should not try and mitigate issues with the Afghan Taliban - especially with the recent debacle of setting up an office, consulate in Qatar for the Taliban - but rather leave that to the Afghans to resolve).

Stem cell number S decreases only slightly, because the cells found at low affinities a in GE Ω rarely switch to Α, but rather leave the SCC.

But two "wolfish" children, a boy named Ignorance and a girl named Want, are not rescued, but rather left to haunt readers' consciences.

He has intentionally forgotten that his wife didn't die but, rather, left him (the film even suggests that Leonard's wife was killed by Leonard himself), so that he can keep investigating the mystery of her murder over and over again.

Pascal never finished the Pensées, but rather left them in the form of notes of various sizes pinned together.

In China, if you go into an emergency room without cold hard cash, you will not be treated but rather left to die.

If we keep seeing this pattern, with iPad usage spiking during the weekends, then that means people aren't really taking it with them, but rather leaving it at home.