instead

Example sentences

• According to the draft Law Proposal that has now been approved, the power of tutelage over the RAEOA will be exercised exclusively by the Prime Minister instead of the Government.

  Tuir projetu Proposta Lei ne’ebé aprova daudaun ne’e, podér tutela nian kona-ba RAEOA nian eskluzivamente sei ezerse husi Primeiru-Ministru, envés husi Governu hotu.

• And why don’t they, at such a young age, go to school instead of working?

  Tan sá sira la iha eskola, maibé tenki halo serbisu ho idade sei nurak?

• But instead, come out of the evil."

  Liu fali ne'e, mai housi ida nebe aat."

Examples from the 46,000-sentence English–Tetun parallel corpus.

Phrases using “instead”

• The mother weans her child and instead gives rice porridge.Inan haketak susu husi nia oan hodi fó han fali sasoro.
• In the past, the Israelites turned their back on God, and instead worshipped Baal idols.Uluk ema Israel fila kotuk ba Na'i Maromak hodi adora fali estátua lulik Baal.
• Now we are no longer use a hearth of three cooking stones, but instead use a stove to cook.Agora ami la uza ona lali'an, maibé uza fali fogaun hodi te'in.
• Just because he has a gun, he is imposing conditions on the judiciary (instead of the other way around)!Tanba de'it nia iha kilat mak nia impoin fali kondisaun ba judisiáriu!
• In popular consultation in 1999, the majority of East Timorese rejected the autonomy offered by Indonesia and instead chose independence.Iha loron konsulta populár iha 1999, povu Timor-leste maioria rejeita autonomia ne'ebé mak Indonézia oferese hodi hili fali independénsia.