Sentence examples for acted instead of from inspiring English sources

Asked Monday about the FCC's approach, Will Wiquist, a spokesman for Pai, said it would be "slower" if the FCC acted instead of Congress to mandate the carriers adopt call authentication technology, adding agency action "opens the door for litigation that could further delay progress". Pai previously has praised the legislation.

Martineau said that Fuller was a talker rather than an activist, that she had "shallow conceits" and often "looked down upon persons who acted instead of talking finely ... and despised those who, like myself, could not adopt her scale of valuation".

But I do think it's important that people act instead of just talking.

She seems to have suddenly remembered that she could act instead of simply making herself adorable.

"If only we could act instead of talking / We wouldn't always end up on our arse".

More and more we are trying to link formal workflows and informal information, and we have an opportunity to act instead of just worry as we did in the '80s.

People are often coached on how to act instead of how to be.

I enjoy a man who can act instead of analyze.

We should read and then act instead of not reading these books at all.

He's also happy to act instead of make music, he says, because of the unfair criticism.

Fire eating, angle grinding, and sex acts instead of human blood raining from the ceiling and Wesley Snipes attacking a load of vampires with a shotgun.