Sentence examples for instead rather from inspiring English sources

Instead, rather than becoming more competitive on energy prices, Germany is becoming less so.

EMI could be spun-off to Citigroup shareholders instead, rather than be flogged to New York based majors.

(That's my job, instead!) Rather, the pollster's job is to take the most accurate snapshot of the electorate at the time the poll is conducted.

Instead, rather than using the network to communicate with each other, teens use Facebook as a link to older family and older siblings who have gone to university.

Instead, rather in the manner of Jacqui Smith, the defence secretary has gone in a characteristically low-profile way, not with a bang but with a whisper.

The band director told Mr. Jo that if he took the clarinet instead, rather than be in the flute section in back, he could sit up front.

Many, instead, would rather rewind the clock.

Instead it was something rather gentler.

Instead it rather employs a majority voting heuristic-based on the relative sensor distances.

Instead, many seemed rather linear, yet focused and well defined.

(They will instead hold a rather inconsequential caucus on March 9).