Sentence examples for accepted instead from inspiring English sources

She failed to get a place, but was accepted instead by Harvard, one of America's elite universities.

Company shops sprang up in Noyabrsk and Muravlenko, where the Sibneft shares were accepted instead of money.

In 1738 Fleury concluded a peace treaty by which Leszczyński renounced his claims to the Polish throne and accepted instead the crown of Lorraine.

But Ron Medford, Google's safety director for the self-driving car programme, has been arguing that the computer simulation should be accepted instead.

But he added that there was no possibility of establishing a western legal system in Afghanistan and argued that an "Islamic-based" solution must be accepted instead.

His thesis was rejected, but his novel "Cat's Cradle" (1963) was accepted instead, almost 25 years late.Mr Vonnegut populated his fiction with alter egos: the author Philboyd Studge, the Pontiac salesman Dwayne Hoover, the science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout, the soldier Billy Pilgrim.

We need to experience the acceptance of those who are loving and accepting instead and practice tolerating the "stage fright" of the encounter until it dies out.

She rejects princes and generals, accepting instead a fresh virgin boy, whose execution she watches with relish the following dawn.

But they would accept instead what they call a "comprehensive" policy, meaning laxer rules on renewable fuels, and a change in the Jones Act.

It wants Chechnya to stop demanding recognition as an independent state, and to accept instead some special status within the Russian Federation.

He then paved the way for Tunisian autonomy and assisted the defeat of the European Defense Community, accepting instead a British plan for German rearmament.