Sentence examples for rather than invited from inspiring English sources
When we felt invaded rather than invited.
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.
He said that the Republican party both under former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in the 1990s and during the current administration–had "won the branding war," capturing the initiative on a series of issues by effectively labeling them in ways that divided people, rather than invited a common understanding.
They are also unlikely to disappear if those who promote or accept them are dismissed out of hand rather than invited to share their fears and concerns.
You wait for invitations rather than invite people to events, as proof of your popularity.
And it thwarts, resists, rather than invites, close attention.
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.
