Sentence examples for instead of enacting from inspiring English sources

Stiglitz faults Obama for "muddling through" instead of enacting firm regulatory reforms and passing a more investment-oriented stimulus package.

Instead of enacting across-the-board pay cuts to pare down federal spending, Sherk proposes reestablishing a pay-for-performance system across the government.

It would have been none the less a choice if, instead of enacting the present statute, the state, by doing nothing, had permitted serious injury to the apple orchards within its borders to go on unchecked.

Instead of enacting a tax cut that basically helps the rich, the government could redirect our national surplus to job training for the many workers who have been laid off, to increasing the budget for child care for the working poor and to providing basic health care for the uninsured.

Instead of enacting the current plan, which will be invisible to practically every person on the internet, reasserting U.S. government authority will make the internet an international political football.

But instead of enacting even more corporate tax giveaways, Congress should start closing corporate tax loopholes.

As you may have gathered, scenes of sex and violence are raw and unseemly here, though mostly only described instead of enacted.

Although the scenes are tightly spliced together, with the company sharing the stage for much of the running time, you notice how sparing the play's action is when it is merely being suggested instead of enacted.

Instead of re-enacting the decline and fall of Rome, we're re-enacting the dissolution of 18th-century Poland.

Instead of re-enacting historical battles, he is having Chinese children learn English in a virtual world.

But instead of re-enacting their sexcapades on stage, the couple played the performance to the crowd, leading a call and response that could likely be heard miles away.