Sentence examples for instead of tackling it from inspiring English sources

It's like shipping the garbage off to Ireland instead of tackling it here.

But any attempt to constrain women's movements solely on the basis of gender not only feeds into the idea that violence against them is inevitable, instead of tackling it, but also ignores the very real threats they face at home.

Sometimes procrastinating is an almost natural response to something that seems too daunting; instead of tackling it, you complete other smaller, more manageable projects first, pushing the bigger task farther and farther behind.

BP says this arose from a "misunderstanding" during an interview with Mr Doust; some in the local media accuse BP of scaremongering instead of tackling its problems head-on.The company is in fact working to get on better terms with the people of its region.

In the face of the current crisis, which is not only political and economic but also one of identity, the worst thing that could happen to Brazil would be to turn back the clock; instead of tackling its chronic defects in order to build a future, recreating the nation's past in its own image and likeness.

2. Trying to knock the ball carrier down instead of tackling him.

The 48-year-old hasn't shied away from talk of aging, instead tackling it head on.

But instead of tackling the fires it had created for itself, the company took to discrediting and deflecting in an effort to distance or absolve itself from the responsibility of the mess that it helped create.

Instead of tackling the situation the authorities exacerbated it, bringing back the exchange of jerseys and repealing the law that made it a bookable offence for players to remove their shirts when celebrating a goal.

Instead of tackling Israel head-on, its neighbours concentrated ever more on sponsoring proxies that entangled the army in the terrible complexities of guerrilla warfare, where victory is impossible to define and the combatants are hard to separate from civilians.

Post-July 2005, however, instead of tackling the underlying factors, isolating the pathogen and treating it with the strongest medicine, it is the Muslim community itself – all of the two million or more – which seems to have become the subject of mass medication.