Sentence examples for instead of the fight from inspiring English sources

Instead of the fight ring though, the kiddies are now playing a game like Harpastum, which reminds me of the 80s sci-fi film Salute of the Jugger.

It's a place that is generally bereft of the cultural signifiers native to the dark, dank locales where rap was birthed Illmatic, for instance, probably wouldn't have been the same album if it was about the struggle of going $40 million over budget on your new artificial archipelago instead of the fight out of inner-city poverty.

It's a place that is generally bereft of the cultural signifiers native to the dark, dank locales rap was birthed in – Illmatic, for instance, probably wouldn't have been the same album if it was about the struggle of going £30 million over budget on your new artificial archipelago instead of the fight out of inner-city poverty.

He considered some of the daily political give and take a waste of time and focused instead on the fight for the poor and weak, even offering to mediate in Sudan's troubled Darfur region.

Instead of joining the fight on behalf of Ms. Idris, Ms. Karega or Sriy, the Bush administration is allying the U.S. with the likes of Iran, Sudan and Syria to frustrate international efforts to save the lives of some of the most helpless people on earth.

But instead of galvanising the fight against harpoon whaling in the Southern Ocean, the aftermath of the attack has brought a bitter war pitting conservationist against conservationist.

Instead of abandoning the fight, however, they moved to southern and northern Syria to continue the fight against the organisation — with an eye to return to their areas when the time is right.

Instead of attending the fight (as more responsible New Journalists such as Tom Wolfe, George Plimpton and Norman Mailer did), he took a load of drugs and floated in his hotel pool wearing a Nixon mask and clutching a bottle of whisky.

Instead of stopping the fight when it was clear Dollaway was giving himself up, Dean allowed the beating to continue.

However, instead of continuing the fight he ordered Army Group B's dissolution.

Instead of the annual fight over spending limits — which last year helped produce a 16-day partial government shutdown — Murray and Ryan's bipartisan compromise set an overall agency spending cap for the next two years.