Sentence examples for rather than refusing from inspiring English sources

The licensing rules encourage councils to put conditions on licences, rather than refusing to grant them.

Trust your team to make the best decisions for the people they're serving, rather than refusing new requests and citing company policy with an unapologetic shrug.

Labor and the Greens have repeatedly called on the government to be open with the public, rather than refusing to confirm or deny claims about "on-water" matters.

Now, on the one hand this seems perhaps overly cautious, since rather than refusing to take any more bets, the bookmakers could have simply significantly lowered the odds on aliens appearing.

Rather than refusing to publish details of the publicly-funded pilots, there must be merit in talking about this now.

Yet my story of discovery, of claiming rather than refusing Asian American identity for myself, is not unique.

So in the last decade, Levi's changed its tune — rather than refuse to budge from its classic 501s.

A directive to prosecutors from Deputy Attorney General Larry D. Thompson suggested that companies should pressure senior employees to testify rather than refuse to answer on Fifth Amendment grounds.

Rather than refuse it, they have tended to pocket the fees while drawing up contracts designed to limit their own legal liability if trouble hits.

Top concerns include: the child's pain, too many injections at a single visit — causing some parents to delay rather than refuse vaccines — and a fear of autism.

Rather than refuse to answer the question, Mr Garcia won everyone over with his gracious response, explaining that his son grew up in a challenging neighbourhood where gangs were active.