Sentence examples for instead of promises from inspiring English sources

MINSK, Belarus — With campaign fliers promising "action instead of promises," Yegor Vasilievsky stood outside a busy shopping center here on Friday, drumming up support for a challenger to Belarus's president, Aleksandr G. Lukashenko.

So today, instead of promises, there was wishing and hoping.

Senator Fred Thompson, Republican of Tennessee, said, "Once again, the Clinton administration appears to be rewarding China for promises made instead of promises kept".

One suggestion that was not adopted, however, was to award universities an excellence designation based on their past achievements alone, instead of promises made in a time-consuming application process.

Instead of promises to hire cops, Garcetti offered more muted goals, telling voters their phone calls to City Hall would be returned, the streets paved, and he'd make job creation a priority.

Other inaccuracies like switched sauces, for example, brought turbot laved with honey and lemon sauce instead of basil sauce, which came with monkfish instead of promised honey and lemon.

Instead of making promises we can't keep, we might consider the recent rehabilitation of Mozambique.

At the F.D.A.'s office of cosmetics and colors, Dr. Stanley Milstein kind of confirms that: "Claims that make use of imagery, instead of hard promises, are not expected by the F.D.A. or by the courts to be substantiated.

But Mr Miliband said that on immigration "instead of making promises we can't keep" a Labour government would introduce "practical policies that will make a difference".

Instead of sweeping promises and grand goals, it emphasizes what the incumbent has managed to achieve despite governing during a historic economic downturn.

Instead of vague promises of affordable housing that might be created, residents will know that for every four new housing units, at least one will be affordable.