Sentence examples for instead of a former from inspiring English sources

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Instead of a former President, North Korea got James Clapper, the director of national intelligence.

BlackBerry feels like a scrappy, young fighter instead of a former champion now overweight and out-of-shape.

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Instead, Levon Brooks—a former boyfriend of Courtney Smith's mother, and Kennedy Brewer who dated Christine Jackson's mother were arrested and convicted in the two cases despite paltry evidence against them.

That length explains, in part, why Olazábal, Europe's captain, used one of his two captain's picks on Colsaerts instead of on a former major champion like Padraig Harrington.

As People noted, McCain had, in a documentary and book released in May, expressed regret for choosing Palin as his 2008 running mate instead of Joseph Lieberman, a former senator from Connecticut. .

Instead of a coupling between a former doctor and patient, we get a hurricane and a flood: the local River Lithium (a polluted successor to what Lucy Marsden knew as the River Tar) ruins the fancy neighborhood in which both Mabry and Roper live.

Instead, Mr. Cooper, a former health director of Newtown, handed out "Don't Do the Flu" pamphlets, stressing good hand hygiene.

"What you have is the daughter of a lobbyist, instead of the daughter of a former President or the son of a former governor.

Instead, in the words of a former prime minister, Robert Menzies, in 1942, it stood for the "forgotten people" of the middle class, not rich enough to be influential, not organised enough to make their numbers felt and too often taken for granted by politicians.

Bill Carter, the New York Times' hoary television reporter, in his story the other day about partnership talks between CNN and CBS, treated both networks as though they were august news organizations, instead of ruined artifacts of a former age.

Although this may be an acquired alteration in these children instead of a structural problem in former preterm infants, these results at least show the feasibility of detecting alterations before clinical complications.

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