Sentence examples for action instead of a from inspiring English sources

He is reputed to be a draft guru able to pluck talent ready for action instead of a project player like the Knicks' lost Frenchman, Frederic Weis.

President Obama's call for full accountability and a review of security procedures, although welcome, should have been a reflex action instead of a measured response to the preposterous statement of his homeland security secretary, Janet Napolitano, that "the system worked".

They get no credit for this even from those who wish they'd take action instead of a knee, because the truth isn't that those who rail against them believe that football is the wrong forum for political action.

In order to refer to such efforts, we introduce the notion of alignment efforts (alignment emphasizes that accommodation can take place on the side of research and/or on the side of action, instead of a one-way research to action dynamic).

Any time you let your imagination go and just flow along with a piece of music or a verse of poetry, or get so involved in watching a movie or a television drama that you feel like you're part of the action instead of a part of the audience, you are experiencing a form of trance.

Disappointed, Roosevelt chided the Court anyway, accusing it of using the Constitution "as a device for prevention of action" instead of an "instrument of progress".

They can display market mechanisms through differentiated mechanisms of action instead of following a single objective function that allows those models a differentiated image of real markets.

Sony's new Eye Toy for the Playstation 2 is a digital camera that puts a real-time, interactive image of the player right into the action; instead of maneuvering a character, you see yourself karate-chopping bad guys on screen.

Witness Raymond Robbins, a Red Cross officer who had been stationed in Russia, expressed hope the country would deal with suspected Bolshevik sympathizers with intelligent action instead of in a "witch hunt". Here's the exchange in the session, according to the Congressional Record.

Affirmative action can also feel condescending for black people, including myself, when others suggest that our accomplishments are due to affirmative action, instead of as a result of intelligence and hard work.

Affirmative action can also feel condescending for black people, including myself, when others suggest that our accomplishments are due to affirmative action, instead of as a result of intelligence and hard work.