Sentence examples for instead approved from inspiring English sources

The Congress instead approved a sum of $2 million, the expenditure of which required approval of Secretary of War Judah P. Benjamin and President Davis.

The government backed away from demolition and instead approved a regeneration plan.

Photovoltaic projects are also not subject to extensive environmental review by state regulators, but are instead approved by local officials.

Those deals were often executed without risk managers' review, former Enron executives said, and were instead approved directly by Enron's treasury department.

"The platform committee instead approved draft language Tuesday, calling for a 'Human Life Amendment' that gives legal protection to the unborn".

But instead, approved projects often get a little advice: make a video, adjust your rewards, lower your funding goal and so on.

The administration urged that the Senate instead approve the Republican bill, which was passed by the House last month.

But Congress never passed a 2011 budget for the Energy Department, instead approving a so-called continuing resolution, which finances old programs based on the previous year's appropriations.

Shapps also suggested that the Tories would pledge to curb them in their 2015 election manifesto and instead approve only offshore windfarms.

Last month, the seven-person Mountain View City Council turned down most of Google's plan, instead approving five hundred thousand square feet of office space — about a quarter of what Google requested — and awarded the remaining 1.5 million square feet to LinkedIn, Google's nearest techie neighbor.

In 1978, MassDPW rejected Ingersoll's design, instead approving the alignment that ran through farmland seized by eminent domain.