Sentence examples for rather than contest from inspiring English sources

The insurance companies often find it easier to pay out and raise premiums rather than contest every claim.

Rather than contest the prestigious race, Dennis is focused on one goal: the 2016 Olympics, starting on 5 August.

In practice, the Home Office might drop some cases rather than contest them in public and thereby risk revealing sources or spying methods.

The Blue Donkey Bar, his downstairs neighbor on Amsterdam Avenue, announced that it would close rather than contest a police designation as a neighborhood nuisance.

Plea bargaining is common in the US, with defendants often able to secure a more lenient sentence if they admit an offence and co-operate with prosecutors, rather than contest the charges in a trial.

Mr. Carman moved his practice to London shortly afterward and began to change a situation where, because libel law in Britain favors the protection of privileged people's reputations, newspapers had generally settled cases out of court rather than contest them.

But rather than contesting the statement or even expressing surprise, the other panelists nodded and wondered aloud if indeed menopause might be the explanation.

Both colleges said they were opposing the subpoenas on procedural grounds, rather than contesting the association's right to the information.

But it would be unwise for Labour's stance on the government's proposals to suggest we are conceding rather than contesting the reform territory.

He argued a similar point in his previous book, "Chic Ironic Bitterness," to which "Sincerity" forms a companion volume — the skeptical worldview secretly preserves the ideals of integrity and honesty rather than contesting them.

With voters there only just tuning in to the nomination battle (and likely to see their primaries as referendums on Mr Kerry, rather than contests from scratch), his numbers could rise again.