Sentence examples for rather, welcome from inspiring English sources

Senior partners at some of the Big Five accounting firms would rather welcome such a move.

Though the interruption may be jarring, I rather welcome the twang of bluegrass or the toll of church bells coming from a patient's cellphone during a psychotherapy session.

When that question agitates us, when it disrupts our complacency and our pleasure, we should not bemoan but rather welcome it.

While Poyet will not resign – although he offered to do so following a 5-1 thrashing by Tim Sherwood's Tottenham side last April – the suspicion is the Uruguayan would rather welcome the sack and its attendant pay-off.

Most publishers would rather welcome a burglar on to their premises than a poet, yet Betjeman's Collected Poems have sold in excess of 2m in the UK alone, making him a phenomenon in modern English literature.

Moreover, after the bad blood that characterised the end of France's period at the EU's helm, the club's 15 members may rather welcome a spell of cool Nordic modesty.The Swedes say their presidency will concentrate on "three Es": enlargement, environment and employment.

But it is no secret that he would be welcomed back to London – or rather welcomed to London for the first time.

Moreover, the journal does not represent one single school of thought, but rather welcomes diversity within the rules of rational discourse.

Discriminative approaches aim at mitigating both view variations and intra-subject variations of gait itself at the same time, and hence the intra-subject variations of gait itself included the training set are rather welcomed to train a better discriminative models.

I didn't want to get my hopes up so I never got my heart set on it; I rather welcomed the opportunity but was accepting of the fact that it may not happen.

There is a border to cross, of course, but the welcome one receives is more often than not, "Welcome to Kurdistan", rather than "Welcome to Iraq".