Sentence examples for instead of believing it from inspiring English sources

"So when the thought arises, for instance, This is killing me!, instead of believing it, you investigate it.

If we as a country had initially diagnosed the real causes of emerging homelessness in the early 1980s -- the disappearance of affordable housing -- instead of believing it to be a temporary crisis for dysfunctional people, the divisiveness, hostility and anger that surrounds today's law-adding frenzy, that keeps moving homeless people away, would be virtually non-existent.

Instead of believing him, Gov. W.C.C. Claiborne summoned the U.S. Army and Navy to wipe out the colony.

"Instead of believing that it is essential to protect ourselves from foreign industry, we now realise that we must protect our own intellectual property to encourage innovation," says Jorge Ávila, the president of INPI.

She explained to HuffPost: "I started to notice everything in the world around me that had to do with art and money, and I paid attention to it, instead of ignoring it -- instead of believing in the fantasy that these were all 'individual failings,' that none of these people were 'good enough' artists to make it".

Instead of believing in America and its founding principles, we are being told to become like every other nation, especially the European socialist nations.

And so it's hard not to watch Stevens and, instead of believing he's Matthew Crawley, start thinking about all the other people he's going to get to be now, too.

When you start questioning your self-worth, when it's easier to believe that you don't matter instead of believing that you are amazing, remember you are important because you are a living, breathing person on this earth.

And instead of believing you somehow failed because you don't own a home, Face recommended thinking about it in a different way.

What if I were prepared to give it a try? 2. Similar to this is to have a curious outlook -- instead of believing that you can't do something even before we've tried.

Everybody wants to play God instead of believing in him.