Sentence examples for rather respond from inspiring English sources

The subtlety of this talk is the appeal to people who would rather respond to old-fashioned patriotism, which is here redefined as generosity.

After recent meetings in Washington, officials from Europe blamed the Treasury for this, complaining that America would rather respond to crises "flexibly" (ie, in its own narrow interests, case by case) than devise a rules-based approach.

That is to say, firms do not wait for the realization of leverage shocks but rather respond to anticipated shocks.

Still, such a realist about pleasure's goodness gone nativist about the concept's normative component will, if like Goldstein true to the hedonist tradition's bottom-up perspective on human value, wish to keep pleasure itself ontologically independent of explicitly normative and concept-involving attitudes, but have these rather respond to pleasure's value.

I'd rather respond to a whole other person tooting that horn than pull out the trumpet myself.

I don't think anyone likes to feel as if they are being pitched, but rather respond better to a note that says 'Hi there, I thought this might be of interest to you.'.

He said the government was not stigmatizing the Roma, also referred to as Gypsies, but rather responding to concerns about public safety.

Mr. Manni, of Agent 16, brushed aside questions about deceiving the reporter, stressing that the agency did not pitch to him, but rather responded to his request.

Igor V. Blokhin, one of Mr. Urlashov's campaign managers, said his candidate was "no revolutionary," but rather responding to a new political awareness in the Russian electorate.

The French government has said that it is not stigmatizing the Roma, sometimes referred to as Gypsies, but rather responding to concerns about public safety.

In a statement released Monday evening, Jackson said he "did not solicit or ask for the opportunity" to return to the Lakers, but rather responded to the invitation from Jim Buss and Kupchak.