Sentence examples for instead of rectifying from inspiring English sources

"I'm sad to hear of John's departure - he did a superb job as Chief Inspector and brought a rigorous and determined approach to the role of scrutinising our borders, his reports highlighted flaws in the Home Secretary's immigration regime and instead of rectifying them she sought to increasingly hold back his recommendations".

For Confucius, zhengming does not seem to refer to the 'rectification of names' (this is the way the term is most often translated by scholars of the Analects), but instead to rectifying the behavior of people and the social reality so that they correspond to the language with which people identify themselves and describe their roles in society.

But they chose instead to leave the issue of rectifying the pay inequity in the hands of Congress.

He understands "de-extinction" as humanity's way of rectifying the ecological havoc it has wrought.

The costs of rectifying intentional reintroductions are high in terms of financial and human resources.

These findings will then be brought to administration in hopes of rectifying the problem.

They would include the fact that he does not seem to have developed any actual organization and that instead of attempting to rectify this problem, he's spending most of his time on book-promotion tours of states that are not planning on having primaries any time in the near future.

At the same time, instead of trying to rectify a quickly unravelling situation, it continues to threaten the marketplace about the consequences surrounding a "Syriza" victory.

(I wrote about Season 2 of "Rectify" here and here).

So, as Hansen observes (1992: 251), in the "Lesser Selection" the Mohists are in effect aiming to rectify phrases, instead of only names.

Now they're going to rectify it, but instead of saying you don't have to distribute, they're saying you've still got to distribute; but if it's less than $3,000, they're going to forgive the tax in certain circumstances.