Sentence examples for instead of parties from inspiring English sources

Instead of parties, the campaign revolved around two local tribes: the Hawwara, to which Yusuf belonged, and the Arabs, a tribe that included Rafat.

Citizens instead of parties.

Writing from Beijing, top Communist Party theorist Zheng Bijian surveys the history of the Chinese party to illustrate its adaptive quality of changing policies instead of parties to "catch up with the times".

Instead of partying and panhandling in Hollywood, he could grab the chance to lead.

"The difference this year," an adviser to Mitt Romney, who asked to speak on background, told me, "is that instead of party hierarchies, we have clans".

He highlighted the idea that the party was trying to be more responsive to voters by asking those voters themselves, instead of party caretakers, to endorse his selection.

The voting followed a new system this year, with half the members of the Duma chosen from individual races instead of party lists.

The funds raised at the lunchtime knees-up in Sydney on Wednesday will also be directed to a charity instead of party coffers.

But instead of partying, the ambassador has been busily reassuring Western diplomats and trade partners that, as he put it, "we are not going back to Communism".

Instead of partying, I have spent the year's major holidays trying to pay rent, which is certainly responsible but not what one might call "thrilling".

Instead of partying with models and socialites, these days he is more likely to be found hob-nobbing with some of the world's richest and most powerful people.