The phrase "adhered to instead" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a preference for one option over another, indicating that something was followed or accepted in place of something else.
Example: "The committee decided to adhere to the new guidelines instead of the old ones."
Alternatives: "followed instead" or "stuck to instead".
For these flumes, the detached sediment was affected by the transversal width of the flume in that an amount of detached sediment adhered to the barriers instead of being removed in the overland flow.
For subjects assigned to n-CEA, Streitberger's non-invasive acupuncture needles were applied to serve as sham control at the same cranial acupoints with the same stimulation modality, except that the needles were only adhered to the skin instead of insertion [ 22].
Making various alterations to the established liturgy in the Book of Shadows and increasing coven democracy, he recognized that these changes meant that the coven was more Neo-Gardnerian than orthodox Gardnerian, and as such he decided to proclaim that the coven adhered to no specific tradition, instead referring to it simply as "The Wica".
Aerobic microorganisms do not adhere to cellulose; instead, they secrete extracellular enzymes which initiate the hydrolysis resulting in the formation of cellodextrins.
But with two days before the papal conclave begins, the cardinals instead carefully adhered to what might be called the art of running for pope, which means never, ever appearing to be running.
Instead, they adhered to a symmetry thesis on which any causal explanation of how scientific knowledge is established needs to be symmetrical in explaining truth and falsity, rationality and irrationality, success and mistakes by the same causal factors (see, e.g., Barnes and Bloor 1982, Bloor 1991).
In regards to Jonathan Kirsch's review of Richard Severo and Lewis Milford's "The Wages of War: When America's Soldiers Come Home" on June 22, it is my opinion that Kirsch's review could have adhered to a more critical standard instead of indulging Severo and Milford's hand-wringing misstatements of American military history.
He wrote that, though he hoped Tenet "would provide intimate portraits of the two presidents he had served as CIA director... instead, he has adhered to the rule of CIA directors: protect the president at all costs".
See Gleeton v. State, 716 So. 2d 1083, 1086 (Miss. 1998) citing Polk, 612 So. 2d at 390. 15. 716 So. 2d at 1087 ("Mississippi has not adopted the Daubert test for determining admissibility of scientific evidence. Instead, this Court has adhered to application of the Frye test".).
