Sentence examples similar to did he rather from inspiring English sources

Did he need that "rather" in the second sentence?

Alas, Mr Hamel does not know or, if he does, he would rather not say after his embarrassing endorsement of Enron.

Did he win 17 majors despite, rather than because of, his pretty backhand?

Didn't he rather call them away from where they were?" Fr.

He did not; he rather lived up to our nation's word and saw a future without war in our hemisphere.

"There's nothing more I would rather do," he said.

"Where does he live?" "I'd rather not say".

So why does he refer to "Catholics" rather than "Christians"?

("I love doing it — there's nothing I'd rather do," he told me, and seemed to mean it).

And if he did know, he'd rather not tell.

But on a bandstand, when it counted, Art Blakey was generous and open in what he did, rather than what he said.