Sentence examples for aside, instead from inspiring English sources

The Tories say that he should have put money aside instead of borrowing to finance Labour's big spending spree.

The trick, she found, was to walk very slowly so that the birds had time to move politely aside instead of starting upward.

If only she had had one nice man in her life (her friendship with Isaiah Berlin aside), instead of many horrible ones.

The ambition of realism was put aside; instead the intention was to create an elaborate world with its own regulations and peculiarities that the player would probe, gradually discovering its secrets.

Hack thus felt compelled to alert us to booing as a nonevent, and ripped the town with this venomous aside: "Instead of booing or ripping the seats out of the hinges, the usually demonstrative Eagles fans sat on their hands".

The three Republican defectors were Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, who won election last year by declaring that he thought Mr. Bush's tax cut was too big; James Jeffords of Vermont, who wants $180 billion of the tax cut set aside instead to bolster federal spending on special education programs; and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania.

They lack the chemistry that can make such shows work, and Mr. Tallman, who is supposed to be providing comic relief with his sarcastic asides, instead comes across like a past-his-prime Don Rickles.

Instead of understanding what the word happy really means, we devalue it by casting it aside and instead reach for superficial tokens of success, massive wealth, instant gratification, flawless relationships, and perfect jobs.

Witchcraft aside, it instead concerns itself with more domestic terrors.

Amid a burgeoning Williamsburg art scene, Koenig put cleverness aside and instead played the heedless impresario.

Moderate Arab governments brushed it aside, focusing instead on the administration's renewed involvement.