Sentence examples for instead of undertaking from inspiring English sources

The idea of drilling for oil instead of undertaking restoration of the site makes no sense at all.

After the Revolution, government officials complained that farmers were "abandoning themselves to dumb idleness," instead of undertaking "some peaceful and sedentary industry".

How can we trust the opinions of those who give us easy, unhelpful, overly detailed plot summaries instead of undertaking the more difficult search for answers to the most important and essential questions: What makes great art so exhilarating?

Mr. Ramo suggests that they must learn to build resilient societies with strong immune systems: instead of undertaking the impossible task of trying to prepare for every possible contingency, they ought to focus on things like "national health care, construction of a better transport infrastructure and investment in education".

Instead of undertaking a university career, he spent several years in a Benedictine monastery (1535 44) without taking oaths.

To do this, however, instead of undertaking the tedious task of removing the differentiability restrictions in each of the problems concerned, the strategy will consist in relaxing an archetypical problem whose basic model is shared with a large group of other principal-agent problems.

But instead the site has been handed over to [property developers] Lend Lease, who are no doubt very capable of undertaking a transformation in keeping with neoliberal assumptions.

Instead, she undertook a series of part-time jobs (including a stint shredding duck at a Chinese restaurant) before winning a place at Rada at the age of 20. "I was very much encouraged to go to Oxford – it was expected of me and I was told I needed to have a fallback if the acting didn't work out," she says.

Instead, we undertook specific stratified meta-analyses to examine the sensitivity of the findings of the review to key potential causes of heterogeneity.

Instead, Constellation undertakes a process akin to the Photoshopping of an image, with undesirable elements removed.

Instead, Nietzsche undertook a metaphysical inquiry into the essence of tragedy as a dialectical interplay of the contrasting aesthetic impulses of Apollonian semblance and Dionysian truth.