Sentence examples for instead of working towards from inspiring English sources

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 working towards the realisation of the two-state solution, they keep the option in public discourse that Israel will disappear from the map.

Or the kind of thinking that leads people to advise women to avoid sexual assault by not going out, especially dressed like that, instead of working towards sexual equality and a shift in the attitudinal tectonic plates that would see rape become accepted for the heinous and violent crime against another person that it is.

It may be that instead of working towards disarmament, his true goal is to be accepted as a nuclear power.

"Despite the gravity of the situation and instead of working towards unity, party leaders have unfortunately gone in the opposite direction - towards division," he said.

It's easy to say, "oh I'll just do it tomorrow". Two weeks later you may still be putting spend on another credit card instead of working towards a minimum spend for a sign-up bonus, getting you closer to reaching your travel goals.

I know it was a challenge for me to finally understand that often I am keeping busy instead of working productively towards my goals.

Instead of working hard 100%, work hard 150%.

The solution lies in thinking beyond the vague and unambitious notion of sustainability and, instead, actively working towards regenerating soils, forests and watercourses.

But instead of focusing on working towards healing, we rather run around to other hospital rooms telling people to look at your wounds to see how much your hashtagged country is hurting.

This is also the first case where producers decide not to export raw material, but to generate added value instead and work towards the production of finished goods at the local level.