Sentence examples for instead to engage from inspiring English sources

There were calls for the mosque to be shut down, but the authorities in Aarhus chose instead to engage in intensive dialogue.

There was a division among his fellow students: some thought he was a riot, and others attempted, instead, to engage in a dense, resonant not-laughing.

In these commissions, Koolhaas refused to refer to past styles (he called for an "end to sentimentality"), choosing instead to engage directly with the true gritty character of the modern world.

Concerned parent Susannah tries instead to engage him with real issues – such as Syria – but George is tempted by a highly technological creative approach that leads to catastrophe for his students.

When it was clear that he would not have time for the maneuver, the USA-77 skipper, Ken Read, tried instead to engage GBR in a tactical brawl on the final downwind leg, in hopes of provoking a foul.

The Helen Hayes, Lord Lloyd Webber's first choice for this rather small musical, was booked earlier this week when the owner, Martin Markinson, reportedly opted instead to engage Hershey Felder's one-man revue of George Gershwin work.

There are charges the centrists could use to really sting Corbyn and open Labour up to an alternative, yet instead they instead opted to engage in the most bizarre dispute over an electoral technicality in the hope of bypassing a vote altogether.

"If you want to change the minds of the people who have got the power, you need to think about their perceptions," he told me, explaining that instead of protesting the government they'd instead try to engage with them: "In the last year, CLEAR has had more meetings with government ministers and senior politicians than the entire campaign in the last 40 years".

Ms. Gorbis emphasizes that futurism is not about ivory-tower navel-gazing, but instead aims to engage people in shaping their lives and communities.

The agency had instead "sought to engage faith-based groups across the different religions … in order to change the way faith interprets gender equality and women's empowerment".

While some warned the new leader might sabre-rattle to help establish himself, Petrov said Pyongyang could instead seek to engage with the international community.