Sentence examples for rather shut down from inspiring English sources

They would rather shut down a site that is growing at 25% a month than buy it.

It's not clear that there is much value left for their junior interests, especially since many politicians would rather shut down and liquidate the two.

Some of them are losing "enormous amounts of money" and would rather shut down the league for a year or two than continue with the current system.

The owner has subsequently doubled down on enforcing her code at all costs – even stating that she would rather shut down her business than let Islamic people fire weapons from inside the stalls of her gun range.

The attendees seemed to come out of it happily united in their anger at Republicans (they would rather shut down the government than fund Planned Parenthood, Pelosi said, and added, "What more do you need to know?") and with a sense that ambition was nothing to be ashamed of.

Though it announced funding this summer from insiders — it announced $20 million in follow-on funding and a $20 million line of credit that we understand was basically a bridge loan provided by its founders — we're told that its backers more recently decided they'd rather shut down the company than re-invest on terms they found disagreeable.

While we don't know if the intense stimulation of surgery would wake it up, Mellor notes that when faced with other potential threats, like an acute shortage of oxygen, the fetus does not rouse itself but rather shuts down more completely in an attempt to conserve energy and promote survival.

Excess capacity is kept going, rather than shut down.

The proposition, he recalled, was rather scornfully shut down.

Rather than shut down media outlets promoting a point of view they disagree with, they buy them.

But other accommodations letting old, heavily polluting coal-fired plants expand rather than shut down infuriated environmental groups.