Sentence examples for instead of executed from inspiring English sources

He is to be exiled instead of executed.

Either because the emperor felt him too valuable a man to lose or because Sima Qian himself requested a reprieve so that he could complete his history, he was castrated instead of executed.

But he adds that if she had merely been imprisoned instead of executed "it's reasonable to surmise that nobody today would really recognise her much, certainly not in England; the Belgians might".

Saavedra prevailed, and the plotting members of the Cabildo were exiled instead of executed.

Instead of executing her outright they left her to die.

"Countries need to look at ways to rehabilitate prisoners instead of executing them," he said.

But instead of executing that arrangement as the trial began the next day, the judge presiding over the case adjourned until late April.

Instead of executing calligraphy on landscape scrolls like the painter-poets of old, he executes it in the landscape itself, at night, writing in the air with a flashlight in front of a camera set on a long exposure.

Often, instead of executing his vanquished opponents, the Emperor would marry one of their daughters and give his defeated father-in-law a job: better a new family member than a rotting corpse.

He said that instead of executing the five activists when there were still so many unanswered questions about the case against them, the authorities should have been pursuing the crimes committed last summer against detainees who were arrested in the postelection protests.

Kraft said that instead of executing its rights to buy back the business, Starbucks has chosen an aggressive strategy that disparages the achievement of the partnership, interferes with customer relationships and threatens to harm Kraft.