Sentence examples for instead to retain from inspiring English sources

The phrase "instead to retain" is not correct in standard written English.
It seems to be a mix-up of phrases and should be rephrased for clarity. Example: "We should focus on improving our services instead of trying to retain old customers."

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Wisely, they don't ape the original, choosing instead to retain its core components while adding snatches of flutes and strings.

It was decided, instead, to retain all 947 individuals.

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The McCain campaign says it was unable even to hire a prominent Republican election lawyer and instead had to retain a Democrat, Henry Berger, who represented the Clinton-Gore campaign in the state in 1996 and had never before worked for a Republican.

Several lawmakers eager to see Ms. Pelosi step down had indicated support for Mr. Hoyer, but he had repeatedly made it clear that he would not oppose Ms. Pelosi if she chose to try to stay party leader and would instead try to retain his job.

As illustrated in Fig. 5, these changes did not modify the strategic pattern but were instead aimed to retain it.

We find that social and bursty groups allow the information to spread across the boundaries of groups more than topical and evergreen groups, that instead tend to retain more the information within them.

The new chip uses small magnets, instead of power, to retain data.

As the field expands it must grow, scholars must not seek to impose a canon and orthodoxy – instead they need to retain its interdisciplinary strengths.

Instead, in order to retain its full autonomy, America has in effect undermined a treaty that promised to help restrain the spread of nuclear weapons —which it surely wants.Still, that is the ideological answer: that treaties and other quasi-legal arrangements restrain the autonomy of the United States undesirably.

Suppose that, instead, one wants to retain the advantages of both worlds (no pun intended), ersatz and genuine, when it comes to impossibilities.

Fantasmo is betting that private property owners won't want big corporations snooping around to map their indoor spaces, and instead will want to retain control of this data so they can dictate how it's used.

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