Sentence examples for rather than invite from inspiring English sources
You wait for invitations rather than invite people to events, as proof of your popularity.
After a while they rebuff your interest rather than invite you in.
Rather than invite legal disputes, however, it might instead go for a comprehensive conversion and keep balance-sheets straight.
Mr López Obrador's solution to Mexico's energy problems is to allow Pemex, the inefficient state monopoly, to spend more, rather than invite private investment.
Rather than invite friends over, you meet at a tapas bar, have a few drinks and nibble up a storm from an array of savory dishes.
Unfortunately Jaffa preferred to enlist Aristotle in the service of his Manichaean struggle against "corrupt or degenerate" lifestyles rather than invite readers to ponder the complex questions that the "Ethics" asks but frequently leaves unanswered.
When we felt invaded rather than invited.
And it thwarts, resists, rather than invites, close attention.
And even if some African leaders felt "summoned" rather than "invited," they recognized the validity of the issue.
As the 59-year-old steeled himself for emergency talks late on Wednesday with Sarkozy, the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and IMF chief, Christine Lagarde – a meeting to which he appeared to have been summoned rather than invited – there was no regret.
In this way, respondents are focused on actual trade-offs rather than invited to give symbolic reactions.
