Sentence examples for instead to improving from inspiring English sources

City resources should go instead to improving the climate for small businesses and entrepreneurs, tapping the immigrant population as well as academic and research institutions, and improving basic services so the middle class will not leave the city, according to the study, to be released today.

President Obama said he proposed a ratings system two years ago but, after much study and controversy, his administration abandoned the idea and turned instead to improving existing federal databases for the public.

We need instead to improve the process used by the Senate to confirm justices.

For bus drivers, cafeteria workers and janitors, money spent on above-market wages could be used instead to improve education.

Imagine if we took all this energy spent on shuffling and used it instead to improve real businesses.

Instead, to improve practice, attention needs to be given to the way that practitioners form judgments and make decisions that benefit and protect service users.

The FSB backed off, opting instead to improve its monitoring of their activities to ensure markets could not suddenly seize up.

But Margaret Mellon, a critic of agricultural biotechnology at the Union of Concerned Scientists in Washington, said knowledge from the genome project should be used instead to improve conventional breeding or determine ideal planting conditions.

One of Iran's most outspoken MPs, Mahmoud Sadeghi, said on Twitter he had urged the interior ministry not to link the protests with foreign powers, and instead to improve the economic situation, open up state television to diverse opinions and lift restrictions on regime critics.

However, I decided instead to improve my Portuguese, which left very little time to learn another language.

As made explicit in the conclusion, this view of the interfaces differs from common and influential "filtration" models of the interfaces (Chomsky and Lasnik 1977, among many others): "the role of the interfaces is not to constrain the forms of objects created by the syntactic derivation; they work instead to improve them" (134).