Sentence examples for instead of quarreling from inspiring English sources

Mr. Ecevit should have allied himself with Mr. Sezer instead of quarreling with him.

What these quarrels share is that they exist among members of the lay public, but generally not among scientists.

Sadly, we are devolving from the great nation we were into a society of quarreling children.

It was a style of quarrelling.

"What is going on here?" she thundered one afternoon when some pupils were quarreling instead of quietly pasting cutout kites.

Instead of dissolving personal quarrels in a solvent of honor, the American way of duelling intensified them.

Here was a husband who took the high road to marital bliss by avoiding quarrels instead of the low road of squeezing some value out of conflicts.

He instead quarreled, asking why I went through his things without his knowledge.

Instead of retiring, he picked a quarrel with The Corsair, a newspaper known for its liberal political sympathies but more famous as a scandal sheet that used satire to skewer the establishment.

Instead of rushing home over a quarrel with a supervisor, or over the quandary of having to eat the same food six days a week, the students began reporting problems to the training centres.

To Tibetans expatriates, Hollywood's portrayals of Tibet -- like Bernardo Bertolucci's "Little Buddha" (1993) and Martin Scorsese's "Kundun" (1997) -- are overflowing with exaggerated reverence, with heavy-handed depictions of Tibetans, especially Tibetan monks, as solemn, holy and kind instead of as ordinary people who quarrel and joke around.