Sentence examples for rather than stand down from inspiring English sources

Rather than stand down, his forces continued their advance, bearing down on the city of Benghazi, home to nearly 700,000 men, women and children who sought their freedom from fear.

The opposition had said this was a way for President Joseph Kabila to extend his time in office rather than stand down next year as planned.

And Schmidt and his team have grabbed the Russia-Georgia conflict and tried to ratchet higher US-Russian tension rather than stand down, again to differentiate the McCain camp from what they hope is perceived as a more dovish Obama position.

Peris said the former NT correctional services minister John Elferink should have been sacked from the Northern Territory ministry altogether, rather than just stood down from the corrections portfolio.

agents were routinely ordered to stand down rather than interdict guns from people they suspected of trafficking weapons.

It plans to award an annual prize of $5m to retired African leaders who rule well and then stand down, rather than trying to cling to power.

He has repeatedly alleged that the CIA station chief told the team to "stand down" rather than help fellow Americans once the assault on the consulate began.

The Nationals deputy leader, Barnaby Joyce, would have preferred Tony Abbott to stand down as prime minister rather than stand against and be toppled by Malcolm Turnbull in this month's Liberal leadership spill.

Wolfgang will now certainly have to stand down sooner rather than later.

The logic of the Shapiro committee suggests that it would be better for him to stand down now, rather than in 2014.

Sponsors including Coca-Cola and McDonald's in June called for an external reform process and a larger cohort later wrote to Fifa demanding that Blatter stand down immediately rather than hanging on until February.