Sentence examples for instead of abandoned from inspiring English sources

"You have a hot-selling, high-profit vehicle, a flexible labor agreement and a facility that the company has invested in instead of abandoned".

For instance, she said that the treaties and institutions that were effective in limiting nuclear proliferation during the cold war should be modernized instead of abandoned.

"People coming over the Brooklyn Bridge into Brooklyn will have something beautiful to look down onto instead of abandoned piers and parking lots".

Instead of abandoning his campaign, he boasted that he was raising lots of money for it, depicting himself as the scapegoat of an ideologically spineless Party establishment.

Following through on this threat will always be impossible, so postponing its use, instead of abandoning it, makes little strategic sense.

Secretary General Kofi Annan of the United Nations said that instead of abandoning the ABM Treaty "there is a need to consolidate and build upon existing disarmament and nonproliferation agreements".

Instead of abandoning the fight, however, they moved to southern and northern Syria to continue the fight against the organisation — with an eye to return to their areas when the time is right.

This vast collection of graffiti art turned out to be the work of the Crono Project (cronolisboa.org), which is commissioning artists to transform neglected buildings in the business district instead of abandoning Lisbon's crumbling heritage to the developers.

But instead of abandoning the city, local entrepreneurs and bohemian dreamers alike are sinking roots; opening a wave of funky boutiques, offbeat art galleries and sophisticated restaurants; and injecting fresh life into previously rusted-out spaces.

Instead of abandoning the sport after he was pressured to resign as commissioner in 1992, he began interviewing dozens of old-time players several years ago, recording an ambitious oral history for the Hall of Fame.

Instead of abandoning millions of people on incapacity benefit, as the previous government did, we will give them the opportunity and the support to make a return to work and a better life.