Sentence examples for instead of demolishing from inspiring English sources

Why a developer would preserve an old building instead of demolishing it and building anew?

Instead of demolishing residential care, we need to change it by creating smaller units.

Instead of demolishing the settler buildings, he has proposed moving the structures to another section of Beit El.

Her experience led her to conclude: "Instead of demolishing residential care, we need to change it by creating smaller units".

Instead of demolishing dams, they are using them to manipulate river flows in a way that mimics the seasonal heartbeat of a natural waterway.

But last November, instead of demolishing the wall, he invited art students to paint graffiti on it, and then claimed he could no longer remove it; it was now a work of art.The wall encloses three apartment buildings.

The review shows that several of the old units build in the 1970s have been refurbished (instead of being demolished).

Thanks to popular support, instead of being demolished, the garden remained open, with Chand employed to manage his park full time.

But instead of being demolished, several of the former canneries were given new life as the Cannery Pier Hotel, the Bridgewater Restaurant and, in 2002, Pier 39, a maritime-themed business park.

But some residents at the scene blamed government negligence, saying the school building had been marked for demolition with a large "X," but instead of being demolished, it was recently refurbished.

Perhaps the village of Harmondsworth and its residents, instead of being demolished and paid off at 125% of their homes' market values, should be sealed within a vast dome and shot spacewards, to drift on the solar winds as a museum of mankind, saving something of our society at the point where it finally became unsustainable.