Sentence examples for instead of acquiescing from inspiring English sources

But instead of acquiescing in his illegal annexation of Crimea, they should reflect on what kind of a world order they want to live under.

Instead of acquiescing, Inman created a fund to donate money to the American Cancer Society and the National Wildlife Foundation.

Instead of acquiescing the dating giant's request to rename the app, 3nder launched a spectacularly childish counter-attack, encouraging its users to ship dirty socks to Tinder's headquarters.

But instead of acquiescing to the self-described "Swifties," it's fighting back against what it calls bullying.

The Military Council's miserable mismanagement of the country following the ouster of former President Hosni Mubarak brought back the youth to Tahrir Square and gave them -- unintentionally rather than deliberately -- the precious gift of reclaiming the power of initiative, instead of acquiescing to the hijacking of the revolution by the Islamists.

Such innovative collaborations, instead of acquiescing to demands that global health funding be transferred to defense [ 55], stand to achieve both altruistic, intelligence, and security goals simultaneously.

Next week their conference must decide whether to back Jo Shaw's amendment demanding a rethink from first principles, or whether instead to acquiesce in an inherently illiberal law in return for the sort of mushy and unworkable compromises that Gordon Brown once offered on 42 days.

Although Roosevelt remained publicly neutral, he pressured Illinois Williamm H. Dieterich and Missouri's Harry S. Truman to support Barkley instead of Harrison; Dieterich acquiesced, but Truman remained loyal to Harrison.

Instead, Bush acquiesced in the prosecution of a few lower-level soldiers.

But instead of trusting the country to understand that, the president has instead largely acquiesced to the Republican mantra that when American families have to tighten their belts, so does the government, and has chosen as his distinction-drawing principle the disagreement over tax cuts for the wealthy.

Instead, they acquiesced to spending nearly a year on U.S. military bases in Iraq giving manicures, pedicures, and facials to the troops, and for a fraction of the wages they'd been promised back at home.