Sentence examples similar to they elected to instead from inspiring English sources

"A lot of these guys were getting close to an I.P.O., but they elected to go the acquisition route instead," said Michael Olson, the chief executive of Cloudera, an open-source start-up.

"Instead they elected to enter the market with a format that was neither convenience store nor supermarket.

Instead, they elected to perish together as a unit.

Bankrupt state and local governments are taxing the middle classes over the brink of insolvency, while too many politicians behave like they were elected to a Roman bacchanalia, instead of public service.

They had instead elected to play the Royal Albert Hall for the first time.

A few elected to take cash instead.

So he elected to try "Star Wars" instead.

With Bill Walker healthy, D'Antoni instead elected to stick with Roger Mason Jr. as one of his first guards off the bench.

McKay looked set to have a shot himself but instead elected to knock the ball wide to McKeown.

She feared going back to campus and instead elected to just take six classes online.

Multiple centres elected to use immunomodulator drugs instead of low-dose steroids for maintenance therapy (n=5).