Sentence examples for but instead of attempting from inspiring English sources

But instead of attempting some kind of revival, they reconfigured old rock virtues into music that had not been heard before.

But instead of attempting to face such issues, one by one, and suggest in detail how change could be achieved, Mr Howard and writers like him find it easier to rail against the system as a whole.

But instead of attempting to contort itself into a media company by hiring scores of relatively unknown writers and producers and go it virtually alone, this time Microsoft has chosen to team up with some high-profile Hollywood talent.

She toyed with writing an instructive book about grammar for children, but, instead of attempting to redress the educational lapses inflicted upon today's kids, she decided to rectify a significant omission in her own education: she would learn Latin.

But instead of attempting to create some full audio picture of its surroundings, the system bases its audio fingerprint on the back wall, because much of what you're hearing is that sound reflected back at you.

But instead of attempting to woo the billionaire casino magnate, Trump told the assembled audience, "I don't want your money".

The crunch comes when Leo tries to speak to this woman, but instead of simply attempting to strike up a conversation in the lobby, he bizarrely follows her into the ladies' lavatory – mumbling some patently untrue excuse about the washbasin tap in the men's room not working – and then starts telling her about things that he feels about the movies.

It may not feel very pleasant but tweeze those stray nipple hairs instead of attempting to shave too close to your nipples.

Instead of attempting a tying field goal, New Orleans called timeout and ran a play called "No-Brainer Freeze".

Instead, it suggested that Syrians in Russia should buy a hot-air balloon and fly it to Norway, instead of attempting to cross by land.

Instead of attempting factual objectivity, Byron evolved an attitude to past events that was visual, emotional and morally argumentative: "a truth of history... and of place".