Sentence examples for instead of state from inspiring English sources

"Instead of state dinners, there have been more working dinners, working lunches.

Rather, it has sent lots of non-serious offenders to county jails instead of state prisons (a policy called "realignment").

For the last decade, state prison overcrowding resulted in thousands of inmates serving their sentences in county jails instead of state prisons.

It's not going to be easy to figure out what to do.Stewart Patrick of the CFR counters some of the conventional wisdom about "ungoverned spaces"—usually they do not lack government, but have alternative government (i.e. tribes) instead of state sovereignty.

While the battle over the $105 million Marin plant heats up, few may recall a crucial choice made by the water district when it opted in the 1960s to rely on its reservoirs and to buy Russian River water instead of State Water Project supplies.

Omnicare's bill payers became savvy private health insurers instead of state Medicaid programs.

But the provincial authorities, he argues, cannot force them to build local clinics instead of state-of-the-art hospitals, or to surface dirt roads instead of building showy suspension bridges.

Instead of "stating" my income without documenting it, I would take out a "no ratio" mortgage and not state my income at all.

"Instead of stating that it 'congratulates the Russian people on the completion of the presidential elections,' as the Obama administration has done, it should have condemned the flagrant manipulation and media restrictions that marred this election.

With Weather Report and even more so with his own groups, he took to scattering the elements of a composition along the way instead of stating them at the outset.

The Bears did Cutler no favors by issuing a statement in the press box that he had a knee injury and that his return was questionable, instead of stating that the medical staff had ruled out a return.