Sentence examples for instead of celebrating this from inspiring English sources

Instead of celebrating this new orchestral work, the event took on a lugubrious memorial atmosphere.

Instead of celebrating this achievement, Tony Abbott, the minister for women, is making cuts to paid parental leave that will leave around 80,000 Australian mothers worse off.

Rex is interested, but instead of celebrating this coup, Albinus, when the book opens, is in a state of "irritation, confusion and misery" over a certain young usher he had glimpsed in a movie theatre.

Instead of celebrating this honor, we're diminishing it.

Instead of celebrating this beautiful season we enter, why hide it, why shy away from it?

Instead of celebrating this new integrated and universal agenda for all people and planet, the SDGs have been launched as an agenda to "finish the unfinished business of the Millennium Development Goals".

People in Portugal have defied a government appeal to carry on working instead of celebrating the traditional Shrove Tuesday carnival celebrations.

I've put all this effort into being incredibly good looking and, instead of celebrating, the only thing I feel like doing is digging a hole in the floor of my flat and sticking my head in it.

But instead of celebrating the three men's effort, LaPorte's counternarrative constantly sneers at it.

Instead of celebrating, the nurse went to a holiday party for the mothers and babies in the program.

But instead of celebrating the greatness of American democracy, Gallagher claims, too many historians dwell on its limitations, notably the exclusion from participation of nonwhites and women.