Sentence examples for rather than obeying from inspiring English sources

This has implications for system design: it may, for instance, rule out the use of artificial neural networks, decision-making systems that learn from example rather than obeying predefined rules.Second, where ethical systems are embedded into robots, the judgments they make need to be ones that seem right to most people.

No matter how young and politically inexperienced they were told that he was, the militant patriots of Sadr City, Najaf, Basra and beyond began to trust him and saw in him the rightful custodian of the traditions handed down by the rebellious Islamic leaders who chose martyrdom rather than obeying tyranny.

Workers were rewarded for voicing doubts or uncertainties about a procedure (rather than "showing no weakness"), for listening to each other (rather than obeying the "strongest" alpha male), for valuing safety and taking breaks (rather than "putting work first"), and for cooperating with and caring for coworkers (rather than "dog eat dog" competition).

Still, at least Britain is briefly considering the morality of its actions abroad rather than obeying the usual propaganda limits, where liberal elements debate the practicality of our involvement in various international horror stories, and more honest elements the strategic importance.

And, somehow, some galaxies might feel normal gravity from the normal matter, rather than obeying MOND.

It was about 5 PM on Tuesday night when the teenager allegedly decided to turn a stolen car the wrong way on a one-way street, rather than obeying police commands.

In fact, Senator Pinochet may find uncongenial a life in which others talk back rather than obey orders.

We may occasionally see a principled journalist going to jail rather than obey a court order to divulge a source.

Rather than obey the teller manual and deliver subpar service, she decided to make choices within her own sphere.

The trade minister, Greg Hands, resigned rather than obey the Conservative whip and vote for the airport's expansion.

In Basra, more than 1,000 recently qualified soldiers deserted rather than obey orders to fight against Mr. Sadr's Mahdi Army.