Sentence examples for opted rather than from inspiring English sources

"When you saw that the majority of the bishops preferred to have a dialogue with the military," Father Pérez del Viso, 78, said, "it's not easy to say, 'We will do something different.' " He added: "Many of the bishops opted, rather than to confront the military head on, to try to intercede in private conversations for those they could save".

The occasion itself was a signal that today's Russia sees itself as a proud successor to an imperial realm which co-opted rather than converted the religious communities that lay in its path.

This is the power to co-opt rather than coerce.

Despite Israeli protests, ʿArafāt sought to co-opt rather than repress Ḥamās.

He fought three military campaigns, each with limited political objectives -- intended to co-opt, rather than humiliate, the adversary.

In any case, it is much simpler to estimate a scalar N opt, rather than accurately estimating matrices Q n and R n as is required in the Kalman filter.

Google has inverted copyright law by asking rights holders to opt out, rather than opt in.

But Judge Chin suggested Google's deal still might work if authors had to opt in rather than opt out.