Sentence examples for instead of taking over from inspiring English sources

He had told Mr. Mondale that his father, an Italian immigrant, thought him a bum for pursuing politics instead of taking over the family flower shop.

Instead of taking over the practice, Dr. Biddle left for a job as a physician at the Defense Department, where his salary is higher, his hours fewer and his vacations more frequent.

Instead of taking over the businesses when their parents retire, as some Italian- and Jewish-Americans did generations ago, the children of Koreans are finding work far from the checkout counter, in law firms, banks and hospitals.

Instead of taking over in December, the new artistic director, Fiach MacConghail, will assume his post immediately and oversee the Abbey's long-delayed move to a new site, probably the financial district by Dublin's dockyards.

Instead of taking over buildings and large architectural structures, the Colombian artist prefers to work small scale and transform ordinary objects, such as egg crates and Styrofoam.

Instead of taking over these banks, however, governments tended to just pour money into them money they themselves had to borrow.

But he, too, decided that the government needed the banks it had -- instead, for example, of taking over the weakest megabanks and making them wards of the state.

But on Thursday, Price announced he will not seek any leadership vacancies at this time, and will focus instead on taking over the role of House Budget Committee chair when Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis).

Instead of either taking over every aspect of your phone, like Facebook Home did, or offering a launcher app as the base plus a suite of widgets you have to seek out and download separately, Themer is designed to allow for one-click installations, with backgrounds, icons, widgets and more all bundled together in each theme.

What if, instead of China taking over Hong Kong, Hong Kong takes over China?

This helps pass the time while teaching them skills, and they will feel more involved and grown up instead of you taking over everything.