Sentence examples for rather than ever from inspiring English sources

I had to promise I would go to jail rather than ever say how I got the story.

It has, however, been arrived at as a reaction to events, rather than ever being carefully thought through.

My 82-year-old mother vows to commit suicide rather than ever go into a nursing home.

But they remain pals, or siblings, or rivals -- often a combination of all three -- rather than ever becoming lovers.

It's the kind of story that Cable loves - one that ends with him implying, rather than ever vulgarly stating, that he told us so.

Others become quasi justices themselves, handing down clever opinions on opinions rather than ever picking up a phone and asking a few questions.

Well, if you'd prefer your council tax to be spent on local libraries rather than ever-rising landfill taxes, it's worth caring about.

If real closure is to come, if the sex abuse era is to be firmly ended rather than ever-so-slowly left behind, the beginning of this papacy is probably the church's last, best opportunity.

Professor Wilkin says the policy implications are far-reaching, indicating that nutrition, rather than ever-increasing doses of physical activity, is the key to tackling childhood obesity.

I believe this grace-full move would once again release the dynamism of the Wesleyan movement that has been hobbled by what appears to be an eagerness to judge and exclude rather than ever-expanding ministry of the early church that broke traditional Jewish boundaries to include Samaritans and later gentiles.

ISSP sample sizes are smaller for each country than those used by the other surveys, and its results are based on living rather than ever-born siblings, but the number and geographical coverage of countries is wider than that of the other sets, including a number of middle-income countries that have not been analyzed in other studies so far.