Sentence examples for instead of mourning from inspiring English sources
On her return, finding her young husband Dumuzi feasting instead of mourning for her, Inanna was seized with jealousy and designated him that substitute.
Instead of mourning Facebook's inability to surpass the market capitalization of General Electric, we should be celebrating the success of companies that have navigated early-stage minefields.
He was on the verge of being consumed by memory, but instead of mourning before that pile of rocks, he dusted off his shirt — his badge, the epaulets.
But instead of mourning, Kreon does something positive to stop the atrocities; he tries to create structure, a society based on clear laws, on citizenship.
The American Jewish World Service, which works on everything from microcredit in El Salvador to women's rights in Rwanda, has more than doubled its intake of volunteers in the past four years.Then there is the growth of synagogues that welcome gay and transsexual Jews; of Jewish cultural centres; and of museums that celebrate Jewish history instead of mourning the Holocaust.
Since the end of the war in 1995, instead of mourning their horrific losses, Bosnian citizens have been forced, by local and international figures alike, to accept that they can only speak and act if they embrace the status of victims, off the backs and bodies of whom the ethnically divided elites can get rich.
His other mission, he said, is keeping Winchester's memory alive in a way that celebrates — instead of mourns — his life.
Get the rest of our troops home so their families can hug them instead of mourn them.
Instead of simply mourning the loss of the devices, let's celebrate the rich and full existences they led before shuffling off this mortal coil into the cold, unforgiving world of eBay auctions.
It became a march of mourning instead.
Voter turnout may even be increased; who could forget it's Primary Day? "Instead of a day of mourning, you would have a day of affirmation," Professor Benjamin said.
