Rather than admit to missing its fiscal targets, the government has resorted to creative accounting.
Rather than admit their failure, they stole the panel and ransomed it to cover the losses.
Men who can't drive will take to drink or commit suicide rather than admit it.
Four southern states have threatened to end their public school system rather than admit Negro children.
Rather than admit that, it prefers to attack the credibility of its critics.
Rather than admit any such failure, the C.D.C. publicly criticized Dr. DeFreitas's findings.
Maybe he was ready to drown rather than admit defeat and come up again, feeling awkward and cheated.
Yet the G-8 seems determined to fudge the numbers rather than admit to a broken promise.
But, faced with legal accusation rather than moral indignation, both men contort themselves rather than admit guilt.
Rather than admit that they didn't know what I had, they made a diagnosis they weren't qualified to make.
So rather than admit as much, the Jets fashioned an Orwellian environment in which they consistently denied a reality that was obvious to everyone.
