"instead rather than" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It is typically used to indicate a preference or alternative choice. Example: "I decided to study for my exam instead rather than going out with my friends."
EMI could be spun-off to Citigroup shareholders instead, rather than be flogged to New York based majors.
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.
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.
In such a case, the children could disclaim, so the inheritance would go their own children instead, rather than facing the possibility that this money might be taxed in their own estates.
If you run a Windows Store app, you will be prompted to sign on to your PC with your MSA and you must click "Sign in to just use this app instead" rather than simply clicking Next.
Instead, rather than undercutting television networks and producers, he says, Joost might, as it were, give them new juice.That is because Mr de Wahl and his Joost team, working mostly in the Netherlands, have bravely ignored the totems of the internet-video boom.
Instead every conversation requires reading rather than listening.
"Rather than" means "instead of" or "in place of".
They offer harmony instead of noise, conversation rather than confrontation, resignation instead of rebellion.
Instead I felt, rather than heard, the animal's echolocation focusing on my puny body.
Instead however, rather than the dual threat phenomenon from last year, the former Heisman trophy winner has returned looking a shadow of his once trailblazing self.
