Sentence examples for instead of agreeing to from inspiring English sources

Instead of agreeing to this, we decided to open our own business in Brazil and handle Pepsico's needs directly.

"Instead of agreeing to that, we submitted a letter, saying we would like to discuss the constitutionality of the permit process.

Instead of agreeing to compete on business terms, elites from powerful ethnic groups have for decades, in collusion with factions of the Congolese and neighboring governments, been organized into mafias.

Feinberg still can't stop the payments, but he has been threatening to pay those executives practically nothing, as he did this year, if they take the bonuses instead of agreeing to roll them into stock.

Instead of agreeing to dismantle their nuclear program, they announced that they would restart the Yongbyon reactor, expel inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, remove monitoring equipment and reopen the factory that reprocesses plutonium.

They might not be, but that is all the more reason for New York to auction off the slots, thoroughbred racing and off-track betting assets instead of agreeing to some stipulated price.

He was jailed for 18 years, instead of 25, as a result of agreeing to testify.

Instead of everyone agreeing to cheat as a group, everyone agreed to not cheat and to make sure no one else did.

Mr. Lundy, for one, faults her for fighting the S.E.C. instead of just agreeing to restate earnings, and for not jettisoning all executives who might have been responsible for Xerox's accounting problems.

Instead of reluctantly agreeing to create a mate for the Creature, he cobbles together a hybrid stitch-up of his prospective wife (whose heart has been inconveniently ripped out by his handiwork) and the maid, Justine, framed for one of Frankenstein's proxy murders.

So why do the parties choose to engage in such contractual gymnastics instead of just agreeing to a conventional loan?