Sentence examples for divorce rather than from inspiring English sources

It'll be an amicable divorce rather than a messy break-up.

Polls suggest about half of Catalans back the idea, but most want a "velvet" divorce rather than confrontation.

The sanctimonious philanderer of Bennett's novel was correct in identifying his wife's petition for a divorce, rather than his own affair with the governess, as the scandal.

Her divorce, rather than being bad news, could be used to taunt Peipei, who had been married to the same man for too long.

Mrs. Goldman's underlying motivation, her husband's lawyers say, was a desire to take half the estate outright in a divorce rather than the third that would have come to her on his death.

Mr Cameron later gave a speech arguing that independence was a "divorce" rather than a "trial separation".

In fact, a recent survey by family lawyers, Resolution, found that 82 per cent of young people said that, despite their feelings at the time, they felt it was ultimately better that their parents divorced rather than stayed together unhappily.

But what it really shows is that for each year, an equivalent of half the number of people getting married get divorced - rather than half of all the married people in the country.

While the stampeding herd of the media were dramatically overstating the problems of the president, informing the nation about celebrity divorces rather than demanding that the Republican nominee stop hiding his tax returns for reasons that are obvious, Romney was failing to win the trust of the nation.

Being a widow or divorced rather than currently married (OR=8.1), having had ⩾5 vs 1 2 pregnancies (OR=5.0), and reporting that one's husband had had (or probably had) extramarital affairs (OR=7.0) were associated with significantly increased risk of cervical cancer (Table 1).

Since recent earnings are one of the factors taken into account in divorce settlements, it makes sense to divorce sooner rather than later.