Sentence examples for rather than repeal from inspiring English sources

"We ought to reform the estate tax rather than repeal it," Mr. Conrad said.

Key conservatives in the House argued — accurately — that the deal would save Obamacare rather than repeal and replace it, and came out against it.

To meet that goal, they should not lower the top marginal tax rate significantly and should modify rather than repeal the estate tax.

An attempt to compromise with Congressional Republicans led President Obama to extend his predecessor's tax cuts, rather than repeal them as he had proposed, sending less money from the rich to the poor than he had promised.

To her credit, she has mounted a more robust defence of Obamacare than many Democrats, vowing to fix rather than repeal the law and accusing Mr Jolly of wanting to go back to letting insurance companies "do whatever they want".

The Kaiser Family Foundation, which tracks public opinion on the health measure, reported in March that 74 percent of Americans would keep, rather than repeal, the law's provision barring insurers from discriminating against people with pre-existing conditions.

"That doesn't seem very smart given what happened, something that Mr. Romney recognizes when he talks of replacing the act rather than repealing it.

For one thing, the polls show consistently that most people favor keeping the reform and amending it, rather than repealing it, which is still the Republican position.

If that happens, history would indicate that conservatives might have to turn their attention to reforming the law, rather than repealing it outright.

And while Mr. Stivers favors "fixing" the new health care law rather than repealing it, Ms. Kilroy insisted that "he's going to fix it for the people pouring money into his campaign account, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce".

Polling shows the public actually backs Obama rather than Republicans on key issues, including mending rather than repealing Obamacare, immigration reform, increasing the minimum wage, same-sex marriage and a host of other issues.