Sentence examples for but instead would offer from inspiring English sources

A bargaining union would not accept featherbedding, for example, but instead would offer to give up featherbedding in exchange for something else (perhaps cash, or the creation of an additional productive position), because the featherbedding costs the employer more than it benefits the union members.

The trial in Sierra Leone would not use a placebo but instead would offer groups of health care workers the vaccine at different points in time.

But Maike Wolf, 24, a protester who works part time at a drugstore, said she did not intend to go voluntarily and instead would offer "passive resistance".

Disney said it instead would offer non-negotiable certificates of acquisition as collectibles.

Instead, he would offer opposition Afghan troops who have been trained by American soldiers as an alternative guard corps.

Instead, he would offer direct property-tax credits of 25percentt, up to $2,500, per homeowner — with a catch: If a town's budget grew faster than inflation, residents would lose their credits.

In the final pages of Hersey's "Hiroshima," he observed that many people he met there were often reticent to speak or even think about the ethics of the bomb; instead, they would offer approximations of "Shikata ga nai," a Japanese expression that he translated as "It can't be helped.

Forgetting Russia's century-old moves to secure ever-widening "buffer zones" to protect its borders, Mr. Clinton used his typical approach: We would not exactly say no to the requests to join NATO; instead, we would offer them a "Partnership for Peace," which anyone, including Russia, could join.

Instead we would offer to go break the money for them and we would do just that.

Instead, it would offer technical expertise, work cooperatively to develop management plans and buy strategically important land.

But we would offer them an arrangement whereby their sales would go up, instead of down.