Sentence examples for instead maintained that from inspiring English sources

The military instead maintained that he had been recruited by a Qaeda figure to help the Taliban fight the Northern Alliance.

An-Nazzam denied the atom-accident ontology of most theologians and instead maintained that with the one exception of the accident of motion everything else in our world was a body.

Mark says American Airlines has given them a full refund for that leg of the journey, but that BA is refusing to entertain doing the same, instead maintaining that the couple could still travel to Miami.

Beginning with Korea, American presidents have avoided seeking formal Congressional declarations of war, instead maintaining that they have the constitutional authority, as commander in chief (article two, section two) to use the military for "police actions".

Perhaps the set theorist can instead maintain that masses are sets, but deny that sets (or at least sets of bits of matter) are abstract.

In his most famous work, The Treatise on the Immortality of the Soul (1516), Pomponazzi instead maintains that, from an Aristotelian viewpoint, our soul is mortal in so far as it is inseparable from the body.

(Other claims, e.g., E3, will come out false for the same reason).[28] One might instead maintain that it is indeterminate which of various objects 'Theseus II' picks out.

And "the letter rejects, out of hand, the need for enhanced biosafety, biosecurity, and dual-use oversight, and, instead, maintains that all that is needed is an opportunity for researchers 'to assure the public' and 'to clearly explain the benefits of this important research and the measures taken to minimize its possible risk.'" The letter is "strictly symbolic," he writes.

Congressional Republicans have steadfastly refused to consider amending the Affordable Care Act, and instead maintain that the six-year-old law should be repealed completely and replaced by a set of vague policies that would cover significantly fewer people.

Perry has not commented on his sister's potential ties to the legislation, instead maintaining that he supported the law because he believes in "protecting women's health by raising the standard of care they receive at abortion clinics".

Noting that Hatch had not encased the cast-iron columns with masonry — which would have prevented the collapse of the top floor — the journal maintained that instead "he busied himself with plastering the exterior of his building with a vast amount of not over-admirable decoration".