Instead of engaging in the moment and grabbing it by its horns, you'll be busy huddling in the corner waiting for the jury to get their harsh judgment over with.
Instead of engaging in battle, they gently talked it over.
"It's unfortunate that instead of engaging the issues in a visible public forum," Mr. Theroux said, speaking of Oracle, "it was considered to be appropriate to use subterfuge and back-alley tactics to deal with the issues".
"Instead of engaging their critics appropriately, Exxon uses its billions to hire high-priced lawyers to make scary-sounding but unsupported legal claims to suppress criticism.
You just fall back on friends and allies who have in some fashion earned it by their service and loyalty, instead of engaging in a national search for the best person who can be found".
Amnesty International criticized the US for its "indifference and soft approach" and urged it to demand the detainees' release instead of engaging in wishful thinking about the appeal process.
Instead of engaging in wars of choice like we did in Iraq, it is important that presidents try diplomacy as a first step". .
Instead of engaging agents, Cochrane passed the contract to Balfour and Baker, who held it until at least 1815.
Instead of engaging in thoughtful reform which we should do this agency sets its most basic values on fire.
It revealed claims by three different women, all of whom claimed that instead of engaging in consensual, Fifty Shades of Grey-style imaginative sex, Ghomeshi was in fact a serial, violent abuser.
