Sentence examples for perform instead from inspiring English sources

You might have even preferred to see the band perform instead of, maybe, watching P!nk doing her second aerial performance at an awards show.

You have to perform, instead of just playing.

Among the tasks they are asked to perform instead: tallying numbers for the livestock census.

But the other design goal, it seems, was to make sure Google could control how well the growing range of Web-based software it is developing will perform, instead of having to run on a Microsoft browser.

In the report, one of the custodians, Trifon Radef, 75, was accused of running a years-long scheme involving school jobs he was paid for, but did not always perform, instead spending time at a soccer club in Astoria, restaurants and his home.

I would require that there be a written explanation to the mayor and the City Council for every teacher who is not in the classroom.... Q. Would you also require summer school starting in first grade instead of waiting until third? A. If the individuals are not able to perform, instead they have a choice of going to summer school or taking the course -- back, which is what I said up at CUNY.

Zola Jesus is performing instead of Kelis.

Moore planned on being a doctor but wound up performing instead.

"Too often, talented black and Asian recruits have been thrust into performing instead of being encouraged to progress towards leadership".

Outside New Orleans, "Dirty Word" could sound like a throwback to the 1970s: performed instead of programmed, community minded instead of self-absorbed.

With a slight juggling of his travel plans, Mr. Gerstein, a naturalized American who was born in Russia, performed instead of Ms. Fliter.