Sentence examples for instead of facing them from inspiring English sources

But Michael Peca, the team's captain, acknowledged that the Islanders might have taken the first four games as opportunities to amass points instead of facing them as separate challenges, as the team did earlier this season.

We are a generation of fearful escapists, avoiding problems instead of facing them.

But long-term, alcohol enables men to avoid their anxieties instead of facing them, which just makes things worse.

"In many cases the believers are just unconsciously unloading personal or domestic issues onto external subjects, instead of facing them," he said.

Today's culture, instead of facing mysteries, persistently tries to outflank them.

Instead of facing on our problems head on, we hide from them in a bottle.

Instead of facing my problems, I learned to run away from them, and soon, beer lead to vodka, which lead to cocaine.

And instead of facing suspicious stares and hostile questions from legislators, he was greeted with requests to take photographs with them.

Instead of facing one European investigation into its privacy policy, Google now has to contend with at least six of them.

But instead of facing an unexpected pregnancy she's the product of one.

Instead of facing his true feelings, he's beating up on himself psychologically — a diversion.