Sentence examples for instead to abandon from inspiring English sources

Israel needs instead to abandon its military concept of deterrence in favor of a more pragmatic political one.

Still others said they had not fired at all, realizing the futility of such a move, and had decided instead to abandon the headquarters through a back door.

Though he has every reason to feel comfortable, Wheeldon has decided instead to abandon his unique position as Balanchine's heir and to confront a bolder, riskier future.

Presidents Bush and Putin should instead agree to abandon Russia's insistence on using plutonium as fuel in return for American financial incentives to dispose of it directly as waste.

Mr. McConnell called on Democrats to approve a stop-gap spending measure that would last only through the early part of next year instead, and to abandon everything else on their agenda and adjourn for the year.

Instead, the inability to abandon land forms the foundation of a system that, among other things, helps regulate and direct the disposition of unwanted chattels by requiring those seeking to sever their bonds of ownership to do so in cooperation with others.

"When Comcast was making its headlong push to take over NBC, they promised again and again that they would not interfere with NBC News; maybe their plan instead is just to abandon news altogether?" said Craig Aaron, the chief executive of Free Press, a media reform group that opposed the Comcast-NBC combination.

Instead Dobie decided to abandon his plan and help Frost at the bridge and the battalion headed south into Oosterbeek overnight.