Sentence examples for instead of a designated from inspiring English sources

San Francisco manager Bruce Bochy says he plans to use his slugging pitcher instead of a designated hitter on Thursday night when the Giants visit the Oakland Athletics.

Let's reverse this and say, instead of being a designated hitter, you can be a designated fielder.

In the last section we saw that in order to provide a logic with an algebraic semantics we need in many cases to consider in every algebra a set of designated elements instead of a single designated one.

Instead, devote a designated period of uninterrupted time to a task that really matters.

Yet there are still many places where riders can flag down a bus instead of waiting at a designated stop, and there are even more stops where riders wait exposed to wind, rain and snow.

Over the past few years, Washington Monthly, where we work, has published a series of articles arguing that the simplest and most effective way to address these problems is to adopt universal vote by mail, also known as "vote at home". The idea is simple: Instead of going to a designated polling place, every registered voter automatically receives a ballot in the mail.

New York University has received a $6.5 million gift from Kenneth G. Langone, a board member of Home Depot and founder of the Manhattan investment company Invemed Associates, but instead of being designated for one of the school's prestigious programs or for the construction of a building, the money was given to the university's part-time, evening M.B.A. program.

Instead of designating a favored buyer for the Nets or setting up an auction, the 15-member YankeeNets board took no action at its meeting yesterday, Howard J. Rubenstein, a spokesman for the company, said.

Mr. James, 47, was shot in the head by another club member, who fired his own gun instead of the designated gun with blanks, Lieutenant Fitzpatrick said.

Real reason: the player, a striker at club side Amrokgang, had to have his designation changed because Jong-hun named only two goalkeepers in his squad instead of the designated three.

If the Guantánamo detainees were prosecuted in federal courts instead of being designated as "combatants," most by now would be serving prison time as convicted terrorists, instead of being celebrated as victims or freedom fighters.