In this task, you are given two sentences in the English language (Sentence 1 and Sentence 2). Your task is to identify the connecting word between the two sentences.

Sentence 1:Gustav Holst is commissioned by the New York Symphony Orchestra to write a symphony , but does not do so . Sentence 2:Instead , he starts work on the tone poem Egdon Heath , which is premiered by the NYSO in the following year .
instead

Sentence 1:Tolstoy also said that the best Russian literature does not conform to standards and hence hesitated to call War and Peace a novel . Sentence 2:Instead , he regarded Anna Karenina as his first true novel .
instead

Sentence 1:Progress in carrying out Portillo 's reform agenda during his first year in office was slow . Sentence 2:As a result , public support for the government sank to nearly record lows by early 2001 .

as a result