Sentence examples for instead of crediting from inspiring English sources

After the game, they blamed themselves for giving it away instead of crediting Dallas for taking it.

"But instead of crediting the early payment for the next month, they would credit it as a second payment in the current month.

Instead of crediting the sale of a license to a general corporate fund, the division that developed the technology was allowed to record the revenue.

But instead of crediting Twitter for creating a global community, several people described the service as cliquish, alienating and preying on their insecurities.

Instead of crediting Senator Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana, the committee chairman, with meeting a main Republican objective, the minority leader, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said "the real bill will be written by Democrat leaders in a closed-to-the-public conference room".

Instead of crediting Israel and turning to the Palestinians and saying, "OK, now what will you do?" Obama pressured Israel for even more concessions, including unprecedented ones, like stopping Jews from building in Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem.

Futurists have long predicted that one day, shoppers will swipe cellphones instead of credit cards to make purchases.

Instead of credit card transactions, cash on delivery is the most common method of e-commerce payment.

EBay also wants to have PayPal at the center of a mobile payment network for using cellphones and tablets instead of credit cards in transactions.

But most digital payment experiments, like one in 2006 by Visa, have focused on swiping cellphones, as is popular in countries like Japan, instead of credit cards.

If only the hotshot bankers who drove the global economy off a cliff had been playing with marbles instead of credit default swaps.