Rather in sentence

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Some of the best engineers would rather quit than be micromanaged, especially when the job market is hot, and it’s so easy to switch jobs.

And since I'm realistic, rather than grandiose, I don't claim that the ability to control the function of the nervous system will at once unravel all its mysteries.

Sticking wires into the brain is obviously rather crude.

We can now actually interfere with their psychology in rather profound ways, as I'll show you in my last example, which is directed at a familiar question.

Now for an intelligent being like our fly, this policy is not written in stone but rather changes as the animal learns from experience.

Rather, local leaders committed to revisiting them later on.

My daughter gave me a rather nice anecdote on this.

I decided that I'd rather be an organic farmer instead.

My little cousin told his dad that he would rather have the organic Toasted O's cereal because Birke said he shouldn't eat sparkly cereal.

And the talks got off to a rather rocky start when the vice president of Chechnya began by pointing at the Russians and said, "You should stay right here in your seats, because you're going to be on trial for war crimes."

In some cases, it's just more cost-effective to throw it away rather than recycle it.

But what if we were able to compost these items rather than throw them in the trash bin?

I'd rather be mystified.

I want to take something rather humble to discuss.

Rather than me putting a dish down, they were allowed to help themselves to as much or as little as they wanted.

Just experience the whole journey of that sound in the same way that I wished I'd experienced the whole journey of this particular conference, rather than just arriving last night.

I would rather have approached her at the bar than the other one.

Currently, most refugees live in the cities rather than in the refugee camps.

Rather than wasting money on building walls, it would be better to spend on programs to help refugees to help themselves.

We see the flows of materials in a rather terrifying prospect.

But rather than writing yet some kind of manifesto or something, she's leaving behind a business plan to make it happen.

In addition, we are struggling to find some way to create incentives for people in the financial services industry that will have them more interested in serving the long-term interests even of their own companies, rather than securing short-term profits.

The Arabic has an incantatory, almost hypnotic quality that begs to be heard rather than read, felt more than analyzed.

Rather, big ideas can be orchestrated, if you can simply gather people with different perspectives in a room and get them to talk about things that they don't ordinarily talk about.

And one of the soldiers wrote home, and this is the sentence that he put: "The struggle between right and six dollars a month and wrong and 75 dollars a day is a rather severe one."

Now, here's where our analogy with the Gold Rush starts to diverge, and I think rather severely.

More overt, the burden of proving that a practice is safe should not be placed on the public that would be harmed, but rather on the industry that stands to profit.

So rather than asking, as precaution would demand, what can we do as quickly as possible to avoid potential catastrophe, we ask bizarre questions like this: "What is the latest possible moment we can wait before we begin seriously lowering emissions?

In environmental circles, we often hear that, rather than shifting to renewables, we are continuing with business as usual.

Never before in the modern era has the largest economy in the world been that of a developing country, rather than a developed country.

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