Sentence examples for instead of ceding from inspiring English sources

There is a solution -- if towns take an active role instead of ceding control to developers.

The other argument is that we would rather control a service that's (potentially) important for our customers, instead of ceding control to someone else.

But instead of ceding the farm to its new legal owners, Nat dons a Confederate uniform, moves into a cave on the property and, encouraged by a drumbeat-laden soundtrack, plots to reclaim his family home.

Instead of ceding control to spoiled stars who demand a fortune and lard.

Instead of ceding the business, it developed a photo printing API using the Apigee product, building smartphone apps to leverage the new technology.

But we should have held firm instead of ceding ground and in the process, trusting a country that has proven repeatedly that they cannot be trusted.

On her second point of ceding leadership, I dissent wholeheartedly.

The Justice Department said it feared that the agreement would reduce Yahoo's incentives to invest in its own search advertising business and opt instead to cede an ever-larger portion of the search advertising market to Google.

For all its military might and prowess at the time, one notable part of Israel's conquest of the Old City was its refusal to expropriate the Temple Mount site, preferring instead to cede control to the Waqf religious authority.

Labour never managed to create a real debate around it (and yes, for lack of trying), instead ceding all the ground to the Eurosceptics.

Heat can also force forests to relocate instead of expanding, sometimes ceding territory to grasslands that are slower to store carbon.