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How to use the word Instead in a Sentence? Page #3

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Instead, this assumption being that it is un-American to have a free ride, so we will use the lending that turned a country of renters into a nation of homeowners. But just like we now know how the mortgage program exacerbated racial and gender inequality, the same thing happened with the student loan programs too.

Elizabeth Shermer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We should be picking tomatoes, peppers and aubergines now. However, they will be ready in May as we have only just planted them instead of last December, food production has to be planned months in advance, it is not like a factory that can be turned on and off at will.

Lee Stiles

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Spanish and Morocco growers have also decided to sell to Europe instead to avoid the costs of a four-day road trip to Britain, additional fuels costs, customs fees, red tape and queues at the border.

Lee Stiles

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Not to get the pills from him anymore, and instead I asked him to shoot me, i meant for him to shoot me so I would be gone.

Alex Murdaugh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s too hard to blame Trump, it’s too hard to bring him in here with his army of lawyers. … Instead, they go for the easy target. They go for Enrique Tarrio.

Sabino Jauregui

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As a country, we should be supporting veterans who want to continue their service instead of harassing and intimidating them, i strongly support bipartisan efforts being undertaken by the House Armed Services Committee to protect our service members and hold criminal actors accountable.

Zach Nunn

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Instead of doubting or worrying about other people’s technologies, it would be better to think more deeply about countermeasures to defend yourself.

Kim Jong

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Why do you support Ukraine, pumping it with weapons instead of sitting down to negotiate as I suggest? You are already discussing sending long range weapons, missiles up to 300 kilometers in range and F 16 fighter jets, state of the art fighter jets, after hundreds of Leopard tanks have gone there. Why are you doing this? You understand this is escalation.

Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images Lukashenko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People posting on social media are going to romanticize the day and if you’re already struggling, this will only exacerbate your frustration, i counsel my clients not to ‘interview for pain’ by swiping through social media making up romantic movies to go along with the posts. Instead, unplug for the night and do something nice for yourself.

Jennifer Guttman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Once you abandon the idea of a personal baseline, it becomes possible to think of emotional suffering as relapse—instead of something to be expected from an individual’s way of being in the world.

Dorian Deshauer

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1 year ago

Everything Auditor White has said about this case is true and is backed by years of audit work by the professionals at the Office of the State Auditor. It’s mind-boggling that Mr. Favre wants to have a trial about that question, mr. Favre has called Auditor White and his team liars despite repaying some of the money our office demanded from him. He’s also claimed the auditors are liars despite clear documentary evidence showing he benefited from misspent funds. Instead of paying New York litigators to try this case, he’d be better off fully repaying the amount of welfare funds he owes the state.

Shad White

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We also want to thank you, Mr. President, for stepping up to receive into Mexico those not following the lawful pathways we’ve made available, instead of – attempting to unlawfully cross the border between our countries.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Some of my Republican friends want to take the economy hostage unless I agree to their economic plans. All of you at home should know what their plans are, instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share, some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset every five years.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I want to emphasize that the conversation should really be about why we should care about gear care, why are we even looking to wash something instead of buying new? At Gear Washers, that’s what it’s all about: It’s not really how we do it, it’s why we do it.

Nikwax McLean

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I was still thinking he was more for Sandra instead of me, but in our picture – he took the same picture with Sandra and their hands are further apart – and of course in ours, our hands are right up against each other, which is rather funny. I guess it was looking ahead at things to come.

Graham Kidner Vickie

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Believe it or not, we might be able to start seeing surface features on the nearest exoplanets, instead of seeing them as pinpoints of light, we might be able to tell if they have continents, for example.

Edward Balaban

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This could mean that it may not be an effect specifically of the ultra-processed foods themselves, but instead reflect the impact of a lower intake of healthier food.

Duane Mellor

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Joe Biden’s failure to enforce the law at the border has made every state a border state, instead of securing the border, President Biden is shifting the burden of the influx of illegal migrants onto New York communities. Upstate New York should not be punished for Biden’s border crisis.

Elise Stefanik

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Instead of $4 a gallon happening in May, it could happen as early as March, there is more upside risk than downside risk.

Patrick De Haan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m sorry to say this in the past we have got coaches trying to play for the podium instead of thinking about the whole idea of having a U-17 or U-19 as a developmental squad, i mean we have been stars of U-17, World Cups. But what happens after that? How do we take our success at the U-17 up to the national team? These are questions that we should be asking ourselves as Africa.

Gomezgani Zakazaka

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's Ruben Gallego here – and I'm in. I'm running against Kyrsten Sinema for U.S. Senate. Why? Because Sinema has chosen to use her power to protect the already powerful, instead of using it for the people she's supposed to serve.

Sydney Barron Gallego

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

To get an idea of what Ignacius looked like, imagine a cross between a lemur and a squirrel that was about half the size of a domestic cat, unlike living primates, Ignacius had eyes on the sides of its head (instead of facing forward like ours) and it had claws on its fingers and toes instead of nails.

Chris Beard

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve was intended to ensure that America had sufficient oil. Instead, Joe Biden sold oil to the Chinese Communist Party when the CCP was stockpiling oil for its own strategic use, and while Americans are paying higher and higher prices for fuel because of the Biden administration’s disastrous energy policies, we need to immediately act to stop this from happening in the future… and unleash American energy.

Ted Cruz

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

People have to feel they’re being treated with respect, [Some companies] treat the offboarding process like a transaction instead of a personal communication with people.

Sarah Rodehorst

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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