Sentence examples for rather carry out from inspiring English sources

Mr. Vinas, who decided he would rather carry out a suicide mission than deal with altitude sickness in the mountains of Afghanistan, was ultimately ruled out because Qaeda leaders did not think he had enough religious knowledge.

Roza Girikhanova, a refugee who saw her mother and sister die during the bombing of the Chechen capital in early 2000, said, "I would rather carry out an act of self-immolation than be forced to go back to Grozny".

This can be difficult as you don't want to seem unwilling, but emphasise that you don't want to spread yourself too thinly and would rather carry out a smaller number of things to the best of your ability.

Insiders stress that the catalyst trades may not even have been entered by a human, but rather carried out by a computer programme.

Happiness means not so much feeling a certain way, or feeling a certain way about how one's life as a whole is going, but rather carrying out certain activities or functioning in a certain way.

That's all well and good—"I just want to make sure my money is safe!"—but a study detailing a sample of last year's Internet hacks, and found that 24percentt of them had nothing at all to do with stealing money or personal information, but were rather carried out for no reason other than to deface and disrupt.

Titshaw said that he would resign rather than carry out such an order.

(The pilots of two Mirage jets defected to Malta rather than carry out the orders).

Rather than carry out the cuts, he and Ms. Lustig resigned and left immediately, in the middle of closing next week's paper.

Bork did so after Attorney General Elliot Richardson and William D. Ruckelshaus, the deputy attorney general, had both resigned their posts rather than carry out Nixon's order.

But for some, the episode recalls the defiance of the 80's, when City Council members endured a contempt ruling rather than carry out the court's housing plan.