Sentence examples for rather responded from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

On Thursday night, as Dan Rather, the anchor of the CBS Evening News -- whose assistant has cutaneous anthrax, and is recovering -- appeared on CNN's "Larry King Live," a viewer asked, "Do you believe that the media reports entirely too much about our weaknesses?" Mr. Rather responded, "When the press exposes weaknesses, by and large these are weaknesses that our enemies already know".

Second, regions such as the left inferior frontal gyrus and the hippocampus that would be expected to show a task difficulty or encoding effort effect do not exhibit selectivity for person-fact encoding, but rather responded in a domain-general fashion (e.g., responded equally to all categories).

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

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

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.

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.

Bumble claims it's not trying to be the "prude police" with all these bans, but is rather responding to what the data tells it.