Obama would rather play golf than govern, would rather campaign than accept an urgent request to meet with the leader of an American ally, and instead of trying to work with those who disagree with him, he has dismissed them contemptuously and rudely.
Audit partners would rather retrain than serve less prestigious clients but would rather retrain or serve less prestigious clients than relocate.
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Realizing that Argonaut-Madrone would rather liquidate than throw good money after bad, Energy eventually gave in.
Even many American beer lovers would rather abstain than sip from a can of mass-produced swill.
Israeli officials said the commission would hinder rather than help the search for the culprits.
Like many before it, Preussag would rather overpay than be leapfrogged by an arch-rival.
First, employees receiving higher pay would feel more warmly toward their employers and would rather reciprocate than retaliate.
That's something Legg says he would rather do than live as a diabetic.
We have become lazy, letting others provide us with information that we would rather believe than research and discover is false.
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Often people would rather quit than continue working for such a boss.
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Williams, 45, are betting that smokers would rather suck than puff.
Dr Barton, who has since retired, told the hearing she "proactively prescribed" the medication because "the probability was her condition would deteriorate rather than improve".
Many, such as Sharon McVeigh Pettigrew, would rather leave than fight.
Paraphrasing an old cigarette commercial, they would rather switch than fight.
We could also endeavour to identify and support the technological measures necessary to meet the threat, which would complement rather than undercut the Kyoto protocol.
After gorging on turkey, pies and other holiday-related foodstuffs, there's no place most American families would rather be than in front of the television set.
An oft-quoted study suggests that executives would rather die than speak.
The former foreign minister, who said on the eve of the war he would rather die than be taken into U.S. custody, had suffered two recent heart attacks.
But despite his discomfort, Theroux would rather swing than sing.
The commander of Russia's forces in Chechnya, General Vladimir Shamanov, has said publicly that he and his top colleagues would resign rather than obey an order to stop the war.
Its shuttle buses, most of which run on natural gas, offer express routes dropping hikers off near trails and scenic routes along the rim for those who would rather sit than walk.
Or is it possible that the lists have been compiled by snarky, unscrupulous young journalists who would rather die than visit Waco or Des Moines or Traverse City, much less live there?
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It had been expected that the National Religious Party, which has close ties to the settlers, and the Russian immigrant party, Yisrael B'Aliya, would leave rather than support large-scale withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza.
Traders and active investors who would rather buy than sell short in order to take advantage of any setback in the Asian stock rally may want to consider a leveraged, inverse alternative: the ProShares UltraShort FTSE China 25 ETF (NYSE: FXP).
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The Class Action Fairness Act was intended to prevent what business interests have described as the gaming of the legal system by plaintiffs' lawyers to drag out lawsuits and make fighting them so expensive that companies would rather settle than continue in court.
The day the war started Tariq Aziz came out to prove that he hadn't been killed or hadn't defected as there were a lot of rumors around ... and he said he had said prior to that he would die rather than surrendering to U.S. forces.
Under the rules, those unable to walk more than 20m would qualify, rather than the previous distance of 50m.
If employers decide they would rather eat the penalty rather than shell out the incremental costs for health coverage, then they are in worse shape from a financial standpoint than before.
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