Sentence examples for this yes rather from inspiring English sources

Perhaps only in this, yes, rather ghostly looking former mill town would a group of arty, aging back-to-the-landers and urban refugees recruit a family therapist and a landscape architecture professor from Berkeley to help wrest their town from sudden death.

In this and all other questions except 4, males with probable MOH answered "yes" rather more often (up to 1.5 times) than females.

For example, the question "does he earn more than $100,000?" requires only a "yes", rather than the actual figure.Assuming web users accept the changes, the outcome could be more privacy online rather than less.

In a statement, Leo Hindery Jr., the chairman of YES, said "we hope that today's decision might spur Cablevision to finally negotiate in good faith with YES, rather than requiring a continuation of the litigation".

When you see how rabidly these men rail against the idea of affirmative consent – of obtaining an enthusiastic "yes" rather than the absence of a no – you realise that a lack of consent is part of the appeal.

"I want an environmental movement that is happy with capitalism, which goes out there and says yes rather than no, and is rigorous about the way it treats science.

For example, other research shows that people tend to agree with the same arguments more when they hear them while they are nodding their head up and down (as if they were saying "yes") rather than shaking it from side to side (as if they were saying "no").

We solved the dilemma by wandering over to the place and asking for the president of the company, who was idle as a summer breeze and apparently delighted to see us (or anybody else) When we said that his publicity man was rushed he said yes rather wistfully-as though he wished, he too, were engaged in glamorous, living.

The legislation, which is headed to Governor Jerry Brown's desk for approval by the end of this month (his office declined to comment), effectively requires the presence of a "yes" rather than the absence of a "no" – or else withholds funding from the nation's largest state school system.

In most cases the patients assessed their current therapy as positive demonstrated by assessments "yes", "rather yes" or "probably yes" in 64% to 96% of the patients.

SNP leader Alex Salmond opened his party's conference by saying he believed people would choose the "hope of yes" rather than the "fears of no".