Sentence examples for instead of contest from inspiring English sources

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If that routine doesn't sound familiar, your mother was probably content to have pretty good flowers instead of contest winners.

I mean they treated us like show regulars instead of contest winners.

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Instead of contesting the evidence of French prosecutors in court, he insisted that the defendants were resistance fighters in a just war of liberation and challenged the legal and moral legitimacy of the trials.

Mr Kirchner, a left-leaning member of the ruling Peronist party, served as Argentina's premier from 2003 to 2007, but instead of contesting a second period in office, stood down to allow his wife to run for President.

Yet instead of contesting Iran's power grab, Obama appears intent on accommodating it.

The sheer scale of the challenges we face requires that we harness this power, instead of contesting it.

Instead of contesting the cancellation of The Second Coming, he left Channel 4 and vowed to not work with them again.

"If the Tories want to have a contest of ideas instead of a contest of advertising budgets, I am very confident we can win that".

But packed into the same skull there are motives that inhibit us from violence, like empathy and reason that allow us to see violence as a problem to be solved instead of a contest to be won.

Many charged that the Games resembled well-rehearsed shows instead of sporting contests.

But it is also a test for everyone who engages in the political debate, everyone who has claimed they hate politics by slogan, everyone who has pleaded for a rational contest of ideas instead of a competition to see who can yell their dumbed-down soundbites the loudest.

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