Sentence examples for claim instead that from inspiring English sources
The lawyers claim, instead, that nothing justifies the states' bans on same-sex marriage.
These are now being squeezed to under-invoice future shipments from Shenzhen, and to claim instead that goods are leaving from other ports.
Basically, this means that the banks will not have to account for the actual value of the assets on their books but can claim instead that they are worth whatever they paid for them.
Indeed, the current political climate seems to have forced Goldman's senior executives to pretend that they did not bet against the mortgage market - from which the firm made a $4 billion windfall in 2007 - and to claim, instead, that Goldman barely made any money from its mortgage business.
To say that Hugh Grant "should" clean up his act is explicitly an ethical judgment; to claim instead that he "needs to" do so insulates the claimant from the obligation to defend the claim with any elaborate reasoning, and adopts instead a tone of dispassionate, quasi-medical concern.
The Tories, in particular, will breathe a sigh of relief since they were wrong-footed when they said that they would act unilaterally, and then retracted when attacked by Labour to claim instead that they were simply moving with the emerging global consensus.
Warren denied the allegation, claiming instead that Calzaghe owed him £1m for breaking a contract which had been agreed verbally.
But they insisted they had no part in the downing of MH17, claiming instead that the Ukrainian military was responsible.
But they insisted they had no part in the downing of MH17, claiming instead that Ukrainian fire was responsible.
