Sentence examples for but rather to keep from inspiring English sources

He didn't expect to win them over, but rather to keep them from storming the polls to defeat him.

Women's advocates insist that they are trying not to split up families, but rather to keep them together through intervention, mediation and counseling.

The political mood is "not geared up to eradicate [fuel poverty]", he says, "but rather to keep a constant pressure to drive it down".

In its lawsuit, the FTC argued that the $60 million payment was not intended for the five products, but rather to keep Upsher-Smith's generic product out of the market.

In most – though certainly not all – residents' eyes, the fence around Ozersk does not serve to keep them in against their wishes, but rather to keep outsiders away from their paradise, protecting them from "the enemy".

Nor does he seem to want control of the province back, the officials said, but rather to keep up the tension and then divide Kosovo into distinct Serbian and Albanian parts.

But they said the general's mistake was not in giving unvarnished advice to the White House, but rather failing to keep them in the loop about what he was telling Obama.

Moore's primary passion, you see, has not been trying to figure out how high interest rates should be but, rather, how to keep taxes as low as possible on the rich.

4. (C) Conversations between Mission officers, MEM VM Mucho, Majaz executives, NGO representatives and PNP officials yielded a common theme that the protesters have no negotiable complaints, but rather want to keep outsiders away.

It is bewildering that the F.D.A.'s greatest concern gumming up approval of over-the-counter status of Plan B emergency contraception is neither medical nor scientific but rather how to keep teenagers from getting their hands on it.

In a statement, BreakOUT! said the increased law enforcement made its members feel unsafe and called for the LGBT community to "chart a course forward that doesn't rely on state systems, but rather community, to keep us safe", adding: "While we were honored to be named one of the grand marshals in pride, our priority is to our vision of liberation where we walk down the street without fear.