Sentence examples for but instead of good from inspiring English sources

Jacobs-Jenkins follows this plot structure, but, instead of Good Deeds, it's Love who accompanies Everybody into the afterlife; Love is as imperfect as all the other figures, but he doesn't forsake Everybody.

But instead of good paying jobs, neoliberalism created runaway inequality with no end in sight.

But instead of good press, what we got was a bombshell story about Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and how he had conveniently forgot (under oath, mind you) that he had any conversations with the Russian ambassador.

"But instead of asking good questions, we chose stigmatization, refusal of the other".

This was the final home game of the season, one for the supporters to enjoy, but instead of a good old knees-up the atmosphere was funereal.

But instead of creating good-paying jobs, or rebuilding America's crumbling infrastructure, or advancing tax reform, Republicans have spent six months trying to raise Americans' health costs to fund tax breaks for billionaires.

But instead of overspending in good times, as they had historically tended to do, some, such as Tanzania and Mozambique, wisely built up their reserves.

But instead of "greed is good," the mantra was how we can re-design business to solve the world's problems.

Joshua Pepper, Columbus, Ohio: Activism is nice, but instead of a feel-good competition for saving energy, how about making it directly lucrative?

Our photographer Léo Malek is a regular visitor, but instead of shooting the goods—and making another unnecessary contribution to the great canon of photos of vintage shit he aimed his camera at the beautiful people who sell stuff there instead.

But, instead of making an obviously good push with his pawn, Kasparov rubbed his chin and moved his knight instead.