Sentence examples for instead engaged in from inspiring English sources

However, baseball has contended that they didn't really resign, that they instead engaged in a concerted action in violation of the contract's no-strike clause.

After bemoaning that Clinton didn't talk about policy but instead engaged in "hit jobs" against him, Trump proceeded to return the favor.

But on Monday, hopes for decisive action were dashed when Prime Minister Naoto Kan and the governor of the Bank of Japan, Masaaki Shirakawa, opted not to hold a widely anticipated meeting, but instead engaged in a 15-minute phone call in which the two did little more than agree to "communicate closely with each other".

Particularly troubling, said Thomas Von Essen, the city's former fire commissioner, was that politicians who should be working to prevent or respond to the next terrorist attack were instead engaged in a political fight in Washington over the events leading up to the last one.

It is a shame that at a time when we should be doing all we can to promote our students' interest in science and math, our government has instead engaged in a self-destructive war on science in favor of religious teachings.

We bucked conventional wisdom that says you should focus on a single market, and instead engaged in multiple markets simultaneously".

Instead, engage in a sweet conversation and make sure you at least make yourself look like you're listening.

Up to 700 million Indians do not have access to a toilet, instead engaging in "open defecation".

He will saunter from classroom to classroom, ignoring the children and instead engaging in seemingly trivial chitchat with many of the teachers, 20 minutes at a time.

It will take ambassadors who do not cower behind barricades in their embassies but instead engage in the arena of ideas and values.

As he had done against Hewitt weeks earlier in Melbourne, Roddick refused to change his strategy or expedite points when injured, instead engaging in more of the grinding, cat-and-mouse style that he had used throughout.