Sentence examples for instead of obliging from inspiring English sources

"Instead of obliging, they built a private area/tent out of newspapers.

Learn to gauge your feelings against the gravity of the situation in a more objective light rather than tending to make every little bump seem like a mountain; and find a rhythm of life that allows you to bounce back instead of obliging yourself to only see the negatives.

Instead of being obliged to come to Facebook's website, users can take their Facebook identity and network of friends to other websites and to devices such as game consoles.

For Moonlight Mile however, he stays put in front of a microphone where, instead of feeling obliged to shout familiar choruses to rev up his audience, shows his strength as a nuanced vocalist as the song swirls psychedelically.

Changes to the "homelessness duty" will mean councils can offer people private sector accommodation instead of being obliged to offer social housing.

As a result, barriers were built to close most of the access channels; these had the additional advantage of creating causeways enabling travellers to go from island to island by road instead of being obliged to rely on ferries.

First, politicians would feel more confident and present themselves more effectively if instead of feeling obliged to make statements so ridden with apologies, neutrality and platitudes that they are completely meaningless, they could describe politics as they are.

Consider visiting their city or town instead and put yourself up in local accommodation to avoid the hassle of obliging them to have you to stay.

Instead of the sterile hours of frustration, I would have understood how old the practise of obliging visitors to wait is; how it is the crudest of power plays.

Such young singers have absorbed the lessons of show-stoppers like Whitney Houston and Ms. Carey but turn their self-confidence toward competitiveness instead of noblesse oblige.

Tyson had canceled today's news conference, instead obliging the promoters of Saturday's championship fight with Lennox Lewis with 20 minutes of public, if innocuous exercise.