Sentence examples for worked instead of from inspiring English sources

"I always wondered why the enemy went through the trouble of making these elaborate fuzes that rarely worked instead of just making some kind of point-detonating system," he wrote.

Obviously the decision of how to resist a closure is a question of tactics, but the UCS work-in was effective not because the workforce worked instead of striking, but because it was an occupation.

Mrs. Miuccio, who first met her husband when she was 13, now gravitates to his home desk, where he often worked instead of going to the office -- there was a meeting on Sept. 11 -- feeling closest to him there.

Instead of isolating the buildings in which Wong had lived and worked, instead of seeking to identify his contacts, instead of hunting the rats they knew carried the disease, the health authorities blamed all the Chinese inhabitants for what befell one.

If you have a simple estate, shop around for a lawyer who will agree to be paid for time worked, instead of the more common percentage-of-the-estate fee.

In this practice it also changed the way GPs worked: Instead of having a practice meeting where we sit around and discuss all the letters and read them altogether, we now go to the office and read them on the machine.

"I want to work instead of sitting in the house".

They raise the prospect of working instead of stealing to make ends meet.

"I've often tried to make things work instead of letting them happen.

As a child, I wanted to work instead of play sports.

Charcoal making might even work instead of landfill for waste paper and plastic.