Sentence examples for instead of secure from inspiring English sources
One institution intended to provide strict supervision instead of secure detention is not an option these days: all four alternatives to detention schools run by the Probation Department are full.
Instead of secure defined benefit pensions, corporations stuck workers with those 401(k) plans instead.
Instead of securing convictions and then recovering criminal proceeds, the project will investigate the lesser-used tactic of civil recovery.
Instead of securing a traditional "forward mortgage" for the new property, she could obtain a reverse mortgage.
Instead of securing his good graces, the payments may well illustrate the opposite: Mr. Karzai is seemingly unable to be bought.
That's one reason that instead of securing guilty pleas against major corporations, for example, they settle for deferred and nonprosecution agreements.
Instead of securing a major art center in which to deploy his talents, Austin accepted an offer to reorganize the fine but abandoned collections of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota.
Instead of securing his third-round match on Day 7 of the Open yesterday, Safin lost his concentration and allowed a two-sets-to-none lead on Sebastien Grosjean slip away.
If the French had known how things were going to work out I expect they would have let Queen Mary keep Calais after the siege of 1558, instead of securing victory from a decisive move by their artillery into Fort Nieulay on 3 January of that year.
Instead of securing the bandage of a lucrative rail franchise, First licked its wounds as the government paused the entire rail franchising programme, a delay that diminished options beyond the long-resisted rights issue – one being considered even when US railwayman O'Toole joined the board four years ago.
A simple orientational phrase like "you say" hovers uncertainly between its commas; instead of securing the speech acts that surround it, it operates as a kind of revolving door by which one both exits and enters the various semantic fields in the passage.
