Sentence examples for instead passing from inspiring English sources

The County Legislature rejected Mr. Gaffney's budget proposal, instead passing one he criticized as irresponsible and overly optimistic.

Shiny rental cars disappear, and semis laden with mangoes and peppers speed past instead, passing school buses that carry a hundred laborers on their way to the fields.

He is accused of taking payment to cremate the dead and instead passing off cement powder and dirt as human ashes.

But, like in the United States, these banks seldom hold on to the mortgages, instead passing them on to a government entity called the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp., which insures buyers against defaults.

The crematory operator, Ray Brent Marsh, is in jail on 118 charges of theft by deception, accused of taking payment to cremate the dead and instead passing off cement powder and dirt as ashes.

Several authorities have protested to ministers that jobcentres are refusing to advertise the availability of short-term benefit advances to claimants, but are instead "passing the buck" to local authority crisis support schemes, some of which rely on charity handouts.

The Assembly Democrats have instead passed separate bills.

The play never materialized, and Eisley instead passed to Thomas near midcourt.

Morgan Allen, trying to find a four-man overlap, instead passed straight to Mallinder.

And hours later, what some advisers had expected to be a tense, fractious shareholder meeting instead passed quickly and quietly.

The House instead passed a short-term measure which the Senate rejected, saying it was too limited.