Sentence examples for instead of practising from inspiring English sources

But she was "possessed of a demon" that forced her to write instead of practising medicine fulltime.

"I lived with Spanish students in Hamburg and we got lazy and mainly spoke English instead of practising German," she says.

Instead of practising law in Athens, where she passed the bar exam, Dimakou has moved her life to an island now famous for the refugees who wash up on its shores.

After her marriage to Hassan Behbahani ended in divorce, she took a law degree at the University of Tehran but, instead of practising law, taught at a Tehran high school while composing poetry.

It has been quite a week: instead of practising Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata for a recital in London on Thursday, he has been flooded with messages of support; his phone pings with requests for interviews; his Facebook page is overwhelmed with statements of solidarity and incredulity.

Perhaps had I been a bit more careful while hiking down to the canyon, instead of practising in my head all the words I knew in French that I could possibly put together to impress upon the guides and fellow travellers that I was not a complete fool after all, I would not have tripped on those stones, lost balance, fell over and then rolled sideways down the rocky hiking path.

What she really wanted to do was cook professionally, but instead she completed a law degree in London, followed by a PhD, though she had no intention of practising.

Instead ranks of burqa-clad women watched a group of men dominate proceedings with speeches on the importance of practising marital obedience.

And I intend to do a lot of practising.

This might be true of practising Shia in calmer times.

She accused them of practising "post-truth politics".