Sentence examples for instead of erecting from inspiring English sources

Instead of erecting a single barrier, they now set up several lower defences that reduce rust's harm.

So instead of erecting his arena in Hoboken, across the Hudson River from New York, John McMullen is selling the Devils, his National Hockey League franchise.

"We would prefer to see Oklahoma's government officials work to faithfully serve our communities and improve the lives of Oklahomans instead of erecting granite monuments to show us all how righteous they are," Henderson said.

Thus, they could have created private parks and squares on the model of Gramercy Park, and (most important of all) instead of erecting four- to six-story dwellings on frontages only twenty or twenty-five feet wide, they could have built three-story houses on forty- or fifty-foot frontages — plots that would have provided gardens, sunlight, air, and internal delight.

Instead of erecting buildings, Andreessen says, Stanford should invest even more of its resources in distance learning: "We're on the cusp of an opportunity to deliver a state-of-the-art, Stanford-calibre education to every single kid around the world.

Instead of erecting more barriers, we should—as many groups and politicians have advocated be stapling a green card on the diploma of every STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) Ph.D and masters student.

Instead of trying to erect a wall of trees across the Sahara, Reij told me, African leaders should look fifty miles south, where a green revolution is already under way.

With 9,000 students and close links with employers, it has been reorganised by a vice-chancellor who has got rid of 160 staff, replaced her senior management team, consolidated the institution onto two campuses instead of three and erected a swish £30m building for students that bristles with music and video production studios.

So a group of German-Americans took it instead, erecting it in the Bronx in 1899.

Instead, it is erecting a skyscraper at 42nd Street and Avenue of the Americas.

Instead, we erected laws, bureaucratic procedures and various other forms of mediation.