Sentence examples for instead eager to from inspiring English sources

As for his remarks to CNN and investigators, the prosecutors argued that Lindh was not coerced into talking, but was, instead, eager to tell his story to anyone in the days after his capture.

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.

Instead, lawmakers, eager to present a united front, are trying to avoid contentious issues in the wake of Tuesday's attacks.

54 min: Slovenia don't look like they're about to risk trying to simply hang on to their lead and instead look eager to extend it, as well they should be.

The feedback received from those early adopters has since led Claco to change its focus, as the team discovered that teachers were less interested in focusing on how others were navigating their own curricula or to find new teaching tools, and instead, were eager to follow the activities of other teachers.

Instead, they were eager to discuss her devotion to her Tibetan heritage and the final moments of her life.

Instead, he was eager to discuss larger companies like Microsoft and SAP, and he said their moves to on-demand software are a testament to Salesforce's success.

Instead, they seemed eager to try to supply the mandate needed for President Khatami to push through changes that conservatives who dominate the judiciary and important institutions have so long resisted.

Instead he is eager to use words like vouchsafe as liberally as possible, so that "The Meaning of Night" has the ornate, curlicued linguistic niceties of a Dickensian period piece.

Instead she seems eager to defend the "root cellar" theory in general (as if later usage proves origin) and so go along with the yarn by Lucas Barger, claiming they were built with one or two capstones when the stone chambers along Barger Road and elsewhere consist of four to seven rock roof slabs, heavy as is but not monstrously so if less were used.

Instead, he was eager to do something for the city (whose parks department gets half the licensing fee) and give his workers in nearby Brisbane a boost on their way to work.