Sentence examples for rather than abide from inspiring English sources

"Rather than abide by the terms of its W.T.O.

By then the right-wingers were gone, and the intellectuals chose to remake the emptiness rather than abide with the many.

By then the right-wingers were gone, and the intellectuals chose to remake the emptiness rather than abide with the many..

Rather than abide by this public mandate, the National Security Agency NSAA) worked with the UK's surveillance agency GCHQ to achieve the same goal covertly.

Dr. Falkow decided last year to destroy his own plague cultures rather than abide by proposed regulations on germs that can be used as weapons.

The son of Ian Paisley vowed todaythat he would go to jail rather than abide by a court order that he reveal a confidential source.

It suggests a bad boy rather than someone who abides by the rules, though there are many ways of suffering a facial impact, and relatively few of them corroborate such a character sketch.

In this coolly empirical view, wary of perpetuating platitudes — such as his supposed indifference to the "rules" of art, his rough way with some patrons, the self-consciously dramatic manipulation of his paint — the historical Rembrandt was attentive to his patrons and gregarious rather than misanthropic, and abided by the rules of art far more than he sought to violate them.

They rather abide the entire hibernation season in a den without drinking, eating, urinating and defecating [44], [45].

Supporters of the interim government, and many others, believe that the Obama administration actively wanted the Muslim Brotherhood to take power, rather than being willing to abide by the results of an election.

And just occasionally, the mysterious rules by which they claim to abide look sensible rather than simply odd.