Sentence examples for rather cease from inspiring English sources

We promised our users 100% privacy and would rather cease to exist than violate this promise.

I'd rather cease operations if it came down to that.

And sometimes impossible to overcome, too, was the idea that Shurvon's life might not be worth living; that I, in his place, would rather stop breathing, cease thinking, that I would prefer to die.

On one side of her family her roots go back to founding fathers and a Quaker who left his church rather than cease agitating for independence from the British.

But shortly thereafter it said that, rather than cease whaling, it would modify the programme to address the court's concerns and continue whaling in the sanctuary surrounding Antarctica.

The theory also explains offshore drilling -- why there is oil in many seabeds, why it is more often near shore than in the abyss, and why, despite the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, which killed 11 crewmen and caused the worst offshore oil spill in American history, oil experts say offshore drilling may increase, rather than cease.

What does it take for a person to persist from one time to another to continue existing rather than cease to exist?

But then why would Socrates become identical to the subject in virtue of a power that is not quite his, rather than cease to be with the powers that are properly his?

Interestingly, rather than ceasing magically at C60, a similar process also applies to the formation of larger or smaller fullerenes.

Many older farmers appear to prioritise the building and maintenance of their personal accumulation of symbolic capital rather than ceasing agricultural activity.

Further, interventions to date have largely focussed on supporting clinicians in initiating and monitoring rather than ceasing therapy.