Sentence examples for deeds instead of from inspiring English sources

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".

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

It reminded me of Robert Thurman, my Buddhist Ethics professor at Columbia University and a good friend, who wished there was a video game geared toward earning good deeds instead of scoring points, so that it would have a positive effect on the players.

Encourage the kids in your family to point out others' good deeds instead of their own.

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.

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.

The very thought, House Republicans hope, may push Congress to impose a ban on all human cloning lest the dreaded deed happen here instead of abroad.

Three judges of the five-judge panel decided the deed meant that, instead of having an annual regatta, a club could merely intend to hold a regatta at some point in the future.

Jacobs-Jenkins follows this plot structure, but, instead of Good Deeds, it's Love who accompanies Everybody into the afterlife; Love is as imperfect as all the other figures, but he doesn't forsake Everybody.