Sentence examples for instead of towards from inspiring English sources

When a bomb comes crashing down on a building, leaving devastation in its wake, they rush towards the site instead of towards shelters.

Like a rodeo barrel-clown, Oldfield also distracts the critical attention of viewers, drawing audience contempt his way instead of towards the actual disadvantage that impacts upon Aboriginal families like "SW's" in the Northern Territory town of Elliot, and towards the institutional structures contributing to the perpetuation of those conditions, as the journalist Amy McQuire points out.

"I picked up the ball late in flight and reacted late to it," Agoos said yesterday, and as a result, he was "unable to get my leg up quick enough to redirect it out of bounds instead of towards our goal.

However, Rangers were struggling in attack and their lack of quality in front of goal was summed up by Stephane Mbia, who headed an Adel Taarabt corner straight back to the midfielder instead of towards goal.

Some Rangers fans started booing captain McCulloch when he had the ball, prompting others to applaud him in support, but the mood was not helped when he met a free-kick inside the Falkirk penalty area only to head the ball clear instead of towards goal.

(v) The root of the weakness of the "peculiar/distinctive function" argument is that it is looking in the wrong direction, towards a metaphysical proposition concerning the nature of things, instead of towards what is intelligibly good as an opportunity, perhaps even the supreme opportunity, for me and anyone like me (any human being).

At a choral rehearsal another teacher begins to lose patience when several members keep singing "towards" instead of "toward".

Shortly after this, the cyclone made an abrupt turn and started to move towards the east instead of moving towards the south.

At the appointed hour they leapt; but instead of soaring towards the firmament they came crashing down.

Instead of working towards becoming doctors, teachers or artists, the former students learned to sleep in the bush to avoid potential night-time raids.

Instead of lurching towards sectarian divisions and ethnic fragmentation, stability in the Middle East is possible by turning to unity and integration once again.