Sentence examples for rather to keep from inspiring English sources

He didn't expect to win them over, but rather to keep them from storming the polls to defeat him.

What is interesting is the way it is used to mask Vatican politics or, rather, to keep people out who don't belong.

Women's advocates insist that they are trying not to split up families, but rather to keep them together through intervention, mediation and counseling.

The political mood is "not geared up to eradicate [fuel poverty]", he says, "but rather to keep a constant pressure to drive it down".

In its lawsuit, the FTC argued that the $60 million payment was not intended for the five products, but rather to keep Upsher-Smith's generic product out of the market.

In most – though certainly not all – residents' eyes, the fence around Ozersk does not serve to keep them in against their wishes, but rather to keep outsiders away from their paradise, protecting them from "the enemy".

It means economic stagnation, as savers would rather pay to keep from using their savings, instead of investing said savings.

The best way of keeping the bugs away from the butterflies was, rather ironically, to keep the collection well supplied with mothballs.

Something to eat straightaway rather than to keep.

I thought this was the best time to do it, rather than to keep struggling".

The chancellor's message, rather, was to keep calm and carry on.