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He has insisted for months that the solution to the problem was not increasing patrols at sea, but instead focusing international efforts on returning stability to Libya.

She encouraged young women currently attending her alma mater, Princeton University, to make the most of their time there, not by focusing on their grades, but instead focusing on coupling and marrying well.

We are able to investigate problems beyond four taxa by not considering all possible phylogenies but instead focusing our stochastic search on trees with high posterior probability.

Our study distinguishes itself from the previous by using Swedish data and by not aiming at correcting measurement error in any primary data set, but instead focusing explicitly on the misreporting behavior per se, with the aim of analyzing how socioeconomic disparities are affected.

but instead focus on specifics ("I don't feel that I made a strong impression").

Inflation targeting, in contrast, would not take account of past inflation but instead focus on future inflation.

The Babylonians had no geometrical models but instead focused on devising arithmetical theories that had real predictive power.

The committee does not and did not investigate charges of wrongdoing, but instead focuses on the adoption of global standards.

O'Connor said the committee did not take conference affiliation into consideration but instead focused on the strengths of individual teams.

The banks did not venture into highly risky investments but instead focused on traditional banking services, coupled with a tight credit policy.

We should "learn to try not to estimate the carrying capacity of the Earth", but instead focus on possibilities of changing human behaviour.