Sentence examples for instead of approving from inspiring English sources

Instead of approving the compacts, however, the pope declared them null and void.

Instead of approving abatement projects one at a time, this would allow similar projects to be grouped together for approval.

The New Jersey Catholic Conference helped deliver about 156,000 signatures asking legislators to enforce the civil union law instead of approving same-sex marriage.

The borough of West Paterson will begin a public awareness campaign, stressing the dangers involved, instead of approving an outright ban like one approved this month in Marlboro.

Instead of approving the entire request, in February 2009, Mr. Obama decided that 17,000 would be sent, adding that decisions on additional deployments would be based on further analysis.

But the reaction from the institutions that use, or hope to use, commissioned agents was so intense that instead of approving its draft, the association named a commission to study the issue.

He would establish an elaborate process where Congress would vote to disapprove instead of approve a debt limit request.

Instead of merely approving new directors, it will now decide whether they deserve reappointment every couple of years.

Mr. Schiro, for instance, will now have to set the agenda for the board, instead of merely approving it.

Mr. Schiro will set the agenda for the board, instead of merely approving it, and he will write his own letter to shareholders in the proxy statement, according to Dieter Waizenegger, the executive director of the shareholder advisory group.

But he and Dr. Hoffman said that if each antisense drug had to go through the usual lengthy, expensive approval process, instead of being approved as a class, creating the drugs could be difficult or even impossible.