Sentence examples for rather to ask from inspiring English sources

The magistrate, Daniel Devaud, decided not to bring the charges against Ms. Bhutto in Switzerland, but rather to ask Pakistani authorities to indict her.

At his own news conference, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said the rules had not been intended to close shelter doors, but rather to ask applicants to show that they indeed were in need of assistance.

The point is not whether our society should ask our Supreme Court justices to lead a monastic life, but rather to ask them to take responsibility for maintaining public confidence in the court.

Or, rather, to ask the world, or at least Ichiro Suzuki and Sammy Sosa, to step outside for a moment, so that we could invite them back in to play against us?

In yesterday's decision, he called the number breathtaking but said the court's task was not to determine "whether the jury 'got it right' " but rather to ask whether the award was fundamentally unfair to the defendant.

In this first major push, Trump isn't expected to unveil proposals but, rather, to ask the companies how they're addressing problems such as trolls and promoting kindness, according to people invited to the meeting.

In that application, the system learned rather quickly to ask relevant questions and became just as effective as a human expert.

Board members may never have met any patients, so it would be rather embarrassing to ask them.

For all those reasons, and a few others, I just think that it's more in my nature to listen rather than to ask a bunch of questions.

My mother was a proud woman who preferred to do without rather than to ask for help.

Your role is to listen rather than talk, to ask questions rather than give opinions.