Sentence examples for rather than accepting it from inspiring English sources

Nations will find alternatives to the U.S. dollar rather than accepting it as international currency.

With porn, I urge teenagers to question what they see, rather than accepting it as true.

This involves buying gold jewellery outright, rather than accepting it as collateral, and melting it down for resale as bullion.

He was unhappy because he gave the ball away and we got punished but, rather than accepting it, he did something about it.

So they know what it says – and rather than accepting it, they want their lawyers to go through it – but that's what they did when they put in their submissions before February 2008".

Supplemental detail: according to a trans-Atlantic German Marshall Fund poll last month, both American (68 percent) and French (58 percent) public opinion say "yes" to the use of military force against Iran rather than accepting it as a nuclear weapons state should all nonmilitary preventive efforts fail.

We should be expected to scrutinize the advice we receive, these critics say, rather than accept it unthinkingly.

She is younger and more likely to buy the coat for herself, rather than accept it as a gift from a parent or husband.

But there was some suggestion that Mr. Churkin was trying to "cherry pick" language from the league's plan, as one diplomat put it, rather than accept it as the blueprint.

Their song includes the lyrics, "What you've done to me is called harassment," and explains how these women are choosing to "respond" to such provocation rather than accept it as the norm.

He told a Cahiers du Cinéma interviewer that if his wife suggested an ill-advised change to a movie he'd risk ruining his marriage rather than accept it, and added 'et je refuserai aussi à ma mère, si elle était vivante, mais elle est morte à Auschwitz'.