Sentence examples for instead of enlisting from inspiring English sources

But instead of enlisting the help of one of the more familiar faces in his entourage to front these images of his spring/summer collection, Holland plumped for Ioanna Gika of Los Angeles indie rock band Io Echo.

Looking at the scene, I realized that Ai had inverted the usual logic of art and politics: instead of enlisting art in the service of his protest, he had enlisted the apparatus of authoritarianism into his art.

For the most part, Bustle's editorial purview will be determined by its writers: instead of enlisting a staff of seasoned professionals, as a glossy magazine might, Goldberg plans to use writers from the group of young women that is Bustle's intended readership, those aged eighteen to thirty-four.

Instead of enlisting child care, she wanted to be home.

In another, he plans Edie's lavish birthday party at his restaurant, but instead of enlisting Big Bird and Queen Elsa, he gets a hawk and an ice sculpture.

Instead of enlisting a draft to solve this problem, we should create focus groups of 15-year-olds and ask them if they want their country to systematically, comprehensively solve the problem of gun violence in schools.

Immediately offered an officer's commission, he chose instead to enlist as a private.

He appears, instead, to be enlisting in the countercultural tradition of the Beats.

Robert Fripp and Adrian Belew are not sharing this current incarnation of King Crimson with the usual rhythm section, instead enlisting the bassist Trey Gunn and the drummer Pat Mastelotto.

Phleps volunteered for the Waffen-SS instead, enlisting under his mother's maiden name of Stolz.

In Detroit, people map out alternative plans instead, enlisting a relative or a friend.