Example sentences of "than accept [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than accepting the idea of a new world order based on the community of nations as expressed through the United Nations , security is to be expressed through a series of Western- dominated collective security structures . |
| 2 | just as when reading a favourite novel , we create the people and places described as we see them , so we draw on our own images and imagination to enrich our inner world , rather than accepting an unknown intruder — the voice on the tape . |
| 3 | Many Americans would prefer to think that Lee Iacocca singlehandedly saved Chrysler from bankruptcy than to accept the real story : a large team of people with diverse backgrounds and interests joined together to rescue the ailing company . |
| 4 | In fact , competition has been reduced , prices have rocketed , thousands of public house tenants have been forced out of the trade and thousands more have felt that they have no reasonable option other than to accept the terms being imposed upon them by the brewers and accept long leases at enormously increased rents , with full responsibility for repairs . |
| 5 | Underneath all that razzmatazz , the girls sneaked aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach or into his room in Guaruja , there was a man of some sensitivity who felt that both fame and sexual prowess had somehow been thrust upon him ; I think he found both hard to resist , and it must be acknowledged that a chauvinistic British press , his looks , his celebrity and his companions made it hard for him to do anything else than accept the role thrust upon him . |
| 6 | I would rather starve in a ditch than accept the fortune of a monarch upon such wicked terms . |
| 7 | Thus , when his secretary of the treasury ventured on one occasion to suggest that colonial rule was more efficient than the successor regimes in the newly independent states , the president brusquely retorted that it was his " personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than accept the political domination of another government even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living " . |
| 8 | They often prefer to withhold sales rather than accept a lower price because of the consequences for other sales . |
| 9 | Yes , Mr Smith did , and lie was prepared to face this rather than accept a worsening of conditions . |
| 10 | You wo n't be late even if you insist on walking into town rather than accept a lift off me . |
| 11 | Some drivers , however , say they ca n't live on less money and would prefer to lose their jobs rather than accept a cut . |
| 12 | SUVA ( AP ) — Major General Sitiveni Rabuka , leader of Fiji 's two military coups , said he was returning to the army rather than accept the post of civilian deputy prime minister . |
| 13 | Now when I read about the island I discovered that it is volcanic and mountainous and is the last refuge of the Carib Indians , the descendants of proud cannibals who starved to death rather than accept the fate of slavery . |
| 14 | Shop around for the system which will best suit the practice concerned rather than accept the most readily available ( such as the packages which the computer salesman will be keen to sell with the machine ) . |
| 15 | In the heavy engineering industry , as well as internal labour markets , Japanese employers also chose paternalistic practices and employee welfare provisions , rather than accept the threat to their power posed by trade unions and collective bargaining ( Okayama , 1983 ) . |
| 16 | Commodore International Ltd says it repaid a loan of $13m to the Prudential Insurance Co of America rather than accept the terms that were proposed . |
| 17 | Lech Walesa dissolved the Polish parliament and called an election for September rather than accept the resignation of Hanna Suchocka 's government after a vote of no confidence . |
| 18 | Yet there clearly were affinities between the Paracelsian approach to disease and later models — not least in the insistence that a chemical cure should always be sought rather than accept the physicians word that certain conditions would remain incurable . |
| 19 | The Prime Minister argued against him , and when opinion swung heavily in the Chancellor 's favour he indicated that he would resign rather than accept the settlement . |
| 20 | Others may prefer to continue the addictive process rather than accept the need for personal change which they may perceive to be more painful than continuing the addiction . |
| 21 | Some like McGovern and Wallhead were opposed to collaboration with the Communists on principle ; rather than accept the United Front , Wallhead resigned from the Party . |
| 22 | This was taken to mean that the Government would tear up the whole treaty rather than accept the social chapter . |