Sentence examples for a reason instead of from inspiring English sources

Instead of the subject trying to figure out exactly how much he owes and who to give it to by coordinating it with many other people, the authority simply takes over these tasks, determines what the subject has reason to do and expects the subject to take its authoritative command as a reason instead of the reasons that directly apply to the action.

"Everybody calls me fat all the time, so I can't wait to have a reason, instead of everybody just being a jerk!" she admits to Parade about the pregnancy.

Against all reason, instead of collapsing prices, the price of oil jumped by $2.50 on the very day of the announcement, eliciting a post, "The CFTC and Department of Energy Snore Away While the Oil Patch Makes Hay" 11.18.09.

But you have to wonder: if we'd cinched our sense of reality with just a bit more reason instead of mythology, maybe we'd still be seeing the ivory-bill for real.

"It's a shame that oftentimes celebrities are the ones that have to be a voice of reason instead of politicians and the people we pay our money to enforce laws.

For this reason, instead of a direct selection of all the instances above a given threshold, we decided to consider only those genes that had statistically higher ω values in the three piezophile-mesophiles comparisons.

He is able to get things done by using intellectual arguments and reason instead of a big stick.

The reason: Instead of going bankrupt with a sniffle, bad companies have been taking on extra leverage.

For this reason, instead of focusing on the net performance of each method in a particular dataset we look for the systematic improvement of the transformed FIS.

Due to scarce teaching capacity, a numerus clausus was in place and regulated the number of graduates for that reason instead of population needs.

But for some reason, instead of selling it Frost kept hold of it.