Sentence examples for instead of tending to from inspiring English sources

Instead of tending to their test tubes, they find themselves guessing how each member of the Supreme Court might vote on the case.

Ironically, the strong economy has presented another challenge, enabling more homeowners to hire landscapers instead of tending to their own yards, says Greg Pierson.

So instead of tending to any of my sons or crying out for my wife, I lay down on my bed.

"Then we started playing scoreboard watch instead of tending to business on the field, and the Giants reeled off 16 straight wins.

"That's why you hire the professionals," said Warren Gemmill, the district's superintendent, who has until recently spent nearly every minute of every day chasing down construction details, instead of tending to the education of Bronxville's students.

Instead of tending to OAP holiday makers he is instead having to navigate carriages where the speakers threaten to topple over and kill someone every time we go around a corner.

The graphics are similar to Farmville except instead of cheerfully tending to your farm, you need to decide if you want to genetically modify your plants with more aggressive pesticides or use hormones to fatten your cows each decision affects the quality of your products but increases productivity.

This has led to a situation where the debates in the field of curriculum have ignored important ground related to the technical form of syllabus documents – the categories, grids, shape, structure, and purposes of the syllabus – instead tending to focus on cultural and ideological debates about content.

Ira Kay cites several studies, including one by his firm, that illustrate companies which cut salaries instead of positions tend to fare better in the long run in terms of both their bottom line and share price, than those that choose to conduct layoffs.

One morning when I was brushing my teeth, I leaned toward the mirror and caught a startling glimpse of swollen, bruised flesh crisscrossed with black stitching, which made me feel as though I had been in a horrible accident instead of expertly tended to by a surgeon.

Feeding T instead of C tended to reduce milk and fat-corrected milk yields, but feeding SEQ1 prevented these effects.