Sentence examples for deeds instead from inspiring English sources

Why not just give away wads of money or do good deeds instead?

The campaign isn't ours but every £ helps #beatcancersooner pic.twitter.com/nNb0RSEitr But the photos have split social media website users, with people arguing that the photos are not a fitting tribute to those affected by the disease, and urging people to donate money or do charitable deeds instead.

Other clever updatings to 21st-century London have been much commented upon, including the on-screen text messages and web searches, the fact that Dr Watson writes a blog about Holmes's deeds, instead of a journal, and the nicotine patches instead of a pipe... ("this is a three-patch problem... ......), but all would come to nought without the inspired casting of Cumberbatch and Freeman.

"If history had gone down a different path," she said, "then the old gods would still rule, the gods you have defeated, the many-limbed many-headed gods, full of stories and deeds instead of punishments and laws, the gods of being standing beside the goddesses of doing, dancing gods, laughing gods, gods of thunderbolts and flutes, so many, many gods, and maybe that would have been an improvement".

They are like mutual funds except that their portfolios contain deeds instead of shares.

Basically, it's like Wall Street but glorifying good deeds instead of greed.

If Ray doesn't kill him, there is a queue of people likely to do the deed instead, from the Mexican cartel encroaching on his territory to the business interests he had until recently been courting.

David Gold thought he was doing a good deed, but instead was found guilty of not recognising one of his own players.

If the answer is no, please do the dirty deed now instead of dragging it out until the spring, or worse, August.

After the 7th century bc, however, when the Demotic language (the popular form of the written language) came into use, many legal transactions required written deeds or contracts instead of the traditional oral agreement; and these extant documents have been studied for what they reveal of the law of ancient Egypt.

Is it possible to redeem such a place, ground hallowed not because of holy deeds done, but instead made sacred by the unthinkably unholy acts that transpired here?