Sentence examples for instead of repairing from inspiring English sources

In Cúcuta, he washed cars instead of repairing them, earning a few dollars a day.

But a few weeks ago, instead of repairing the long-defective escalators, workers encased them with a jury-rigged contraption made of drywall and glistening metal beams.

After a boiler failed at one jail, instead of repairing it, the city parked a truck outside for 10 years to supply hot water.

So instead of repairing oil fields and burying their dead, Iraqi Kurds have been erecting shiny hotels, opening amusement parks and trying to figure out how to lure tourists.

"It is unthinkable that in the midst of the horrible political violence our president would resort to name-calling instead of repairing the damage to the fabric of our country," Steyer said.

Grada explains that when he first entered the building back in June, it was heavily damaged by the fighting, but instead of repairing it he incorporated the existing patterns of destruction for his art — a hole in the wall from rocket fire has turned into an outline of Qaddafi's head in profile.

On the Saint Urban, the copper detailing was damaged by succeeding generations of riggers, the slate roof was replaced with asphalt and the balcony running along the 10th-floor level was taken down instead of repaired.

Starting in January, many of the dental services that were cut eight years ago will be restored for her and about 7.5 million adults on Medi-Cal, many of whom have had to get their teeth pulled instead of repaired.

Everything is cleaned and reinstalled, instead of repaired.

After myocardial infarction (MI), the heart undergoes fibrotic pathological remodeling instead of repair and regeneration.

We needed more proactive initiative and less reactive intervention – in other words, to prepare instead of repair.