Sentence examples for instead of descending from inspiring English sources

Yet instead of descending into the heartache that'd befell him and his wife, the 26-year-old considered the good that could come from his family's misfortune.

Instead of descending on stores the day after Thanksgiving, more shoppers have taken to waiting until the final weekend before Christmas.

He also expresses the hope that the Conservatives will recover their one-nation mojo, instead of descending ever further into Europhobia.

The advantage of this scheme is that the Security Council could be unified behind a simple, direct response to any Iraqi recalcitrance instead of descending into the cycle of division and confusion that now follows each incident.PAUL ASIMOWPalisades, New YorkSIR Your leader against the embargo on Cuba (January 17th) might equally be applied to UN sanctions against Iraq.

He went on to explain how Marcus Ogilvy had built a mansion on Arlington Avenue in East New York from which he could hear the reliable rumble of the Jamaica line as he fell asleep, and he'd enjoyed standing on the platform of the Cleveland Street Station, gazing at the city around him, instead of descending into a tunnel that he always feared would collapse, or would harbor rats and snakes.

Instead of descending into the sort of irrelevance that Ravitch objects to, the new English standards contain lists of suggested texts, titles that have stood the test of time.

This part of the launch did not go as planned; instead of gracefully descending, the booster tipped over and blew up.

The Briton was dropped on the Vallombrosa, not due to any loss of form but instead a complete loss of descending ability in the wet.

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Organize provisions in order of descending importance.

Graham's division then moved north as ordered instead of descending from the heights on the coast road, they followed a path through a pine wood to the west of the ridge.