Sentence examples for instead to receive from inspiring English sources

She sued the labor agency instead to receive more of his overtime pay.

She never took payment for her performances at schools, preferring instead to receive donations of wool, which she knitted into children's jumpers for Oxfam.

Lawyers said Machel is likely to waive her right by marriage to half the Mandela estate, opting instead to receive four properties in Mozambique and other assets including cars and jewellery.

When the ARROW trial ended, some children refused to be transferred to local clinics, opting instead to receive their treatment through referral hospitals for fear of being seen by their "neighbours and friends at the opportunistic infection waiting areas".

The Ajokas received a job offer in the weeks since the fire, but instead chose to receive unemployment compensation benefits and concentrate on their dream of getting an education in computers.

The beneficiary may, instead, elect to receive the proceeds over a given number of years or in some fixed amount, such as $100 a month, for as long as the proceeds last.

The emperor was so overjoyed by the new acquisition that he decided to delay his return to Niani and to visit Gao instead, there to receive the personal submission of the Songhai king and take the king's two sons as hostages.

Next week, opening arguments will be heard by a federal judge in Minneapolis on the union's appeal of a special master's decision on union allegations that the N.F.L. did not get the maximum amount of money possible from the television contracts, instead opting to receive assurances that it would get the money in case of a lockout.

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Only token objections were however raised by Austria, which would have instead preferred to receive more Ottoman territories in the Balkans, a region which for a long time had been coveted by the Habsburgs.

This was in light of the possible Austrian-Ottoman alliance with only token objections from Austria, which would have instead preferred to receive more Ottoman territories in the Balkans, a region which for a long time had been coveted by the Habsburgs.