Sentence examples for instead of asking the question from inspiring English sources

Instead of asking the question "Where do you have concentrations of biodiversity?" you ask the question "What do ecosystems provide for people?

Instead of asking the question of whether a person is or is not racist--because we're all a mix--we can turn to thinking of the ways in which we might engineer our social environment to address racism and its worst effects, without believing that any one step will be a blanket fix.

So, instead of asking the question, "Can a woman have it all?" we should be asking, "Is there something left to the 'it' when we remove power/money and spouse/babies from the equation?" Put another way: "Does a woman have intrinsic worth when she has neither become hugely successful in a lucrative field nor birthed/reared children?

As Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz put it when announcing a $5 million donation to GiveDirectly: "Instead of asking the question 'should this project be funded or should we do nothing?', we could be asking the question 'should this project be funded or should we just give the beneficiaries the money?' and now we have that opportunity".

Related to this: the headings, instead of asking the question, could just make your point.

Instead of asking the question "So, you studied a year abroad in 2006, is that right?" try asking "What was it like studying abroad in 2006?" The second question will give the person you're talking to more to answer with.

Instead of asking the questions that the living usually ask of the dead — What connects us to the past?

Instead of asking the philosophical question of what consciousness is, they have restricted themselves to trying to understand what is going on at the neurological level when consciousness is present.

"Why don't we talk after my lecture," Navalny said rather curtly to one supporter, "instead of asking the same question over and over again?" Navalny was the biggest star at Anti-Seliger, but the camp on Saturday was a who's who of the Russian opposition.

Today, a loud minority of private sector workers, swimming in a sea of classist propaganda, apparently want public sector workers (who are in the main paid less) to be pulled down to the kind of shoddy benefits packages and lack of bargaining rights they are forced to endure instead of asking the deeper question: Why is it that their private sector benefits are so lacking?

Instead of asking the sensible questions (what does Britney smell like, and also what flavour is her lip balm?), you'll recall that Laura actually responded to Paul's attempt at banter by suggesting that Britney is "pushing 40", apparently in an attempt to undermine the globally famous pop star who this man has met exactly once.