Sentence examples for but instead proved from inspiring English sources

In case you missed it, the government announced a new minimum-pricing regime that was meant to indicate a new drive against problem drinking, but instead proved that Westminster and Whitehall are as in thrall to the brewing industry as ever.

The allotment system was favored by liberal reformers at the time, including Schurz, but instead proved detrimental to American Indians.

Colony, who founded Forrester 25 years ago and has watched tech's response to every recession since, argues that the current crisis won't deflate the technology industry but instead prove how solid it has become.

However, this ambition is so challenging that the European Space Agency's (ESA) Lisa Pathfinder mission will not be attempting to measure gravitational waves, but instead proving the technology works for a spacecraft that might.

As for efforts to create a secret channel between Moscow and the Trump team after the election, it says they don't show secret dealings, but instead prove the two sides did not have significant contact before Trump's victory.

Now that Trump is president, when good numbers come out on the economy and unemployment, they are no longer "fake news," but instead prove what a wonderful job Trump's doing.

Lawrence portrays Tiffany and her struggles in a way that does not exploit mental illness, but instead proves to audiences that mental illness does not define one's life.

TAMPA, Fla .— It was supposed to be the start of their four-day effort to sell Mitt Romney to the nation, but Monday instead proved to be a day of frustration for Republicans as the delay in beginning their convention deprived them of their national stage and brought a fresh airing of intraparty tensions.

Begun late in the Clinton administration as an experiment to cut costs through market competition, Medicare Advantage has instead proved more costly than regular Medicare.

What was supposed to be a rallying point for anti-abortion conservatives instead proved to be a bigger draw for liberals in favor of reproductive rights.

The recovering policemen in the hospital, as it turned out, made no use of the many stones in the courtyard, and instead proved eager to tell their stories.