Sentence examples for rather stopped from inspiring English sources

(His brother played the violin, which made me equally envious, though it was for piano lessons that I'd implored my mother — rather, stopped imploring my mother — years before).

Kant then immediately refers to "David Hume, who, among all philosophers, came closest to this problem"; and he suggests, once again, that Hume failed to perceive the solution because he did not conceive the problem in its "[full] generality, but rather stopped with the synthetic proposition of the connection of the effect with the cause (principium causalitatis)" (ibid).

Having reportedly been the first to suggest the possibility of using the resistant American rootstock, Leo Laliman tried to claim the money, but the French government refused to award it, with the rationale that he had not cured the blight, but rather stopped it from occurring.

A fourth limitation is that we did not stop the sampling due to data saturation but rather stopped due to near universality of focus group attendance by the ELDERSHINE participants.

A majority of owners would rather stop play than lose money on every game.

As for New York buyers, they would rather stop off in the German capital than in Düsseldorf.

If forced to change, Smithwick told me, Baptist Homes would rather stop contracting with the government.

Rather, stop buying the F-18 and accelerate its replacement, the F-35.

"I almost had to stop translating, or rather, stop revising it, because I couldn't bear to read it another time," Goldstein said.

America's scheme to buy toxic assets never got off the ground, while Germany's bad bank is so punitive that most banks would rather stop lending than turn to it for help.

He considered himself a terrible loser, a competitive athlete who would rather stop playing, stop doing everything he adored, than deal with the queasy feeling that filled his stomach when he failed.