Sentence examples for was in lieu of from inspiring English sources

The money was in lieu of visiting me.

That was in lieu of putting grass in". But Wittgartner was determined to have a grass field.

It there appeared that the tax was in lieu of taxes upon the property and had been treated by the state court as a property tax.

All that frantic traveling was in lieu of any compelling reason to stay home, and those many, many friendships were perforce conducted at long distance.

The news might have been better received had they stressed that the discontinuation was in lieu of a 10 percent increase.

"The running joke was that the naming of the park was in lieu of payment of the last invoice," Mr. Balsley said.

This is in lieu of hanging up the handset.

It is unclear whether those interviews were in lieu of testifying before the grand jury.

The stocking caps were in lieu of shaving the prisoner's heads.

Such assessment shall be in lieu of damages sustained by the Government because of such claim.

Looting a store may be in lieu of the traditional division of a big man's estate".