Sentence examples for but instead to be from inspiring English sources

Mr. Starr hopes not to revisit the issue next summer, but instead to be able to focus on university building initiatives.

"The parents were hoping he would come with some information for them about where the girls may be and what efforts are being done to recover them, but instead to be told he is not coming was not easy for them.

"It's what I would call a quintessential Southeast Asian work because it wasn't designed to be in an exhibition space, but instead to be seen and experienced on the street by ordinary people," said Iola Lenzi, an art critic and guest curator, of the installation.

Because getting old turns out to be almost nothing to do with despair at the unexpected hairiness or the imminence of the winding sheet, but instead to be an exhilarating liberation from all the constraints of expectation imposed on poor, beautiful youth.

Slater does not expect Saracens to turn up with a hangover after their Champions Cup final victory last weekend but instead to be focused on becoming the first club to secure the European Cup and Premiership double since Wasps in 2004 and emulating Leicester's achievements in 2001 and 2002.

The only difference is that it requires us not to be instrumentally coherent, but instead to be kratically coherent: i.e., to follow one's judgment about one's reasons.

They do sound science and refrain from appearing too colorful but tend instead to be rather modest and shy.

Answers included information which did not bear directly on the question asked, but seemed instead to be intended to impress the reader.

But if free variables are instead to be considered as universally bound, this step is illicit.

(Such conventional choices do not respond to truth or falsity, but instead to whatever is taken to measure convenience).

Gordon's writing is most effective when she is not preaching to the converted but, instead, seeking to be merciful.