Sentence examples for rather than oblige from inspiring English sources

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Rather than oblige, Mr. Hu reported them.

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They would be housed on bases rather than obliged to make the dangerous trip home every night.

Sometimes the builder will supply the lumber, which he harvests, rather than obliging the buyer to purchase lumber commercially.

Following a global outpouring of support, Thailand allowed her to seek asylum in Canada rather than obliging Saudi Arabia's deportation requests.

And personally, I'd go beyond OPEN (and Jimmy Wales) to give the intermediaries — search engines, online sharing services — greater responsibility to police what passes through their sites, rather than obliging the victim to do all the work.

It also allows firms to switch to processes that economise on emissions of greenhouse gases as existing technologies wear out, rather than obliging them to scrap equipment before its time.

Peers backed Lord Pannick's call to give judges greater discretion to hold secret hearings, rather than obliging them to do so in national security cases, by a majority of 105.

Until our interview in December, Ramaphosa was noticeably silent on the massacre, except to say that he would testify at the investigation and to announce, through his company, that he would contribute to the burial costs of those killed, a gesture that struck some as suggestive of a guilty conscience rather than noblesse oblige.

Carpenter hopes to attain a degree of notoriety sufficient to obtain his own organ with which he might tour, rather than being obliged to play on unfamiliar instruments.

In the event, de Blasio was able to secure those funds from Albany, rather than being obliged to requisition them from Park Avenue.

However, the site's research shows that four out of five people would prefer to get a fairer deal from their existing provider, rather than be obliged to switch.

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