Sentence examples for instead of an army from inspiring English sources
Instead of an army of potential claimants, the government faced just 91 plaintiffs.
Sgt Nightingale's other sensible decision, aside from courting publicity, was to get his own lawyer instead of an army one.
"There's a war of intergalactic proportions brewing, and instead of an army, they're coming armed with patents," said Mr. Rohan.
Instead of an army of people using rakes, enormous mechanical harvesters shaped like a very tall upside-down "U" move through the fields at about a mile an hour.
Instead of an army of sniffer dogs, international Customs operations use "risk matrixes" that raise red flags about certain packages.
It was kind of like that robot movie with Will Smith, but instead of an army of dysfunctional killer robots, we were staring down an army of shiny, leathery purses.
Instead of employing an army of intrusive inspectors to force New York City residents to put bottles, cans and paper into separate recycling containers, why doesn't the Sanitation Department simply take the trash to central sorting areas and have employees pick the recyclables out themselves?
Instead of a large army of ward heelers dragging people to the polls, candidates needed a small army of donors to pay for commercials.
Instead of a conservative army general whom Giovanni despised as a fascist bigot, his father was a dedicated Communist and a spy (with Gianni) for the KGB.
If we had a draft instead of a volunteer army, you can be sure the families of those fighting in Afghanistan would be demanding from their members of Congress that they stop funding the war.
Its basic plot is: a down-on-his-luck literary translator, who also happens to be an amateur mad scientist, aims to take over the world by cloning an army's worth of Carlos Fuenteses, but he accidentally instead generates an army of enormous silk worms cloned from Carlos Fuentes's silk tie.
