In an effort to overcome Australia's leg stump attack Headley had altered his batting stance; instead of standing at right angles to the bowler, he turned his body more front-on, to enable him to improve his placement of the ball on the leg side.
Anji urges her timid friend to start a band instead of standing at the back of gigs with a notebook.
In Munich in 1938, Neville Chamberlain's sin was not that he talked to Adolf Hitler, but that instead of standing up to him he sold Czechoslovakia down the river.
But instead of standing up to North Korea in 1994, with the possibility to bring down its regime, Clinton stepped in and legitimized Kim Jr. by cutting a deal.
Instead of standing shoulder-to-shoulder with little Israel against the jihadists, he's talking of how a festering Middle East conflict ends up "costing us significantly in terms of both blood and treasure".
"Instead of standing up to this mob, they opened a criminal case against Batyrov," even though he had been responding to the government's plea for help, Edil Baisalov, who served as Ms. Otunbayeva's chief of staff until he resigned this month, said in an interview.
Instead of standing up to threats they have capitulated.
Instead of standing up to those demands, the party has become captured by the unions.
Playing this game just makes more space for the BNP's false arguments, instead of standing up to them.
