Sentence examples for instead of manning from inspiring English sources
"Instead of manning the barricades, he wrote books and preached graceful sermons," Mr. Cryer writes.
Instead of manning the barricades, Björk turned to the context she knows best and held a concert.
When Alexis Sanchez turned Mile Jedinak with one sublime touch in the middle of the pitch and surged towards the box, some of the Australia defenders panicked like English batsmen at the sight of a leg-spinner, getting sucked in towards the dribbling Sanchez instead of manning their assigned defensive posts.
Instead of manning their booth, reps from company, we heard, were holed up in a hotel room helping the startup resume services — which it did by last Friday.
The process by which the Delian League transformed into an Athenian empire is generally considered to have begun well before Pericles' time, as various allies in the league chose to pay tribute to Athens instead of manning ships for the league's fleet, but the transformation was speeded and brought to its conclusion by Pericles.
Instead of Manning, the Pats would be facing a shaky — and, as Adam Gopnik has noted — probably injured Mark Sanchez, who all of a sudden seems to think that his receivers are eleven feet tall.
Did Armstrong really mean to say "a man" instead of just "man"?
(He just issued a decree allowing women, instead of men, to sell women lingerie).
They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men.
As Mr. Obama has said, fathers often "abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men".
