Sentence examples for instead to maintaining from inspiring English sources

When the war started, Lincoln was committed not to emancipation but instead to maintaining the Union, coercing those slaveholding states that had left the Union into rejoining it.

and instead to maintain them in a form that required large increases in spending.

Yarns drawn from cellular networks are shown instead to maintain high porosity, even with enhanced polymeric friction.

If firms cannot raise output per hour they may well raise prices instead to maintain their profit margins.

Neither of those men, though, acted on the knowledge, choosing instead to maintain an unchanged relationship with the children.

Instead, to maintain lifetime employment, companies held down pay and benefits for existing employees and stopped hiring new graduates.

Many conservators no longer restore objects to approximate their original condition as fine arts museums do, preferring instead to maintain the way they looked when acquired.

Singapore does not redistribute income as aggressively as Denmark, choosing instead to maintain lower taxes and concentrate transfers on low-income individuals.

Australian banks are expected to pass on only part of the easing to customers, choosing instead to maintain profit margins in the face of higher funding costs.

Opinion polls show that an overwhelming majority of Bulgarians refuse to have Simeon or anyone else back on the throne, preferring instead to maintain a republican form of government.

But the Muslim Brotherhood is unlikely to attend, pledging instead to maintain its disruptive street presence unless Morsi – who is being held incommunicado by the military – is reinstalled as president.