Sentence examples for instead of adding to from inspiring English sources

But instead of adding to the spectacle, the features just serve to remind us that a Galliano show is mostly smoke and mirrors.

Instead of adding to the economy's productive capacity, these assets provide a flow of services (such as reassurance to parents and relaxed travel) directly to consumers.

So instead of adding to the menagerie I've been assessing the animals, trying to figure out who to bring and who to leave (temporarily) behind.

A lot of it just isn't necessary and instead of adding to a song's impact, often detracts (and distracts and distances) instead.

Instead of adding to the tab, task force members say, it is better to order a machine this time around that will fulfill the 2008 state requirements.

Her staff and supporters would be well advised to leave it at that instead of adding to her reputation for embellishment and exaggeration.

Now the S.E.C. contends that the $400 million actually reflected a kind of rebate on the $6.7 billion reaped from Mr. Middelhoff's investment in AOL, or more specifically a payment to obtain the guarantee of cash instead of stock, and thus should have been deducted from the sale price instead of added to its advertising revenue.

Her opponent is Ms. Roukema's biennial nemesis, Assemblyman W. Scott Garrett, who does not support abortion rights, believes that the current gun laws need to be enforced instead of added to and who holds that educational improvement comes not from more spending but from more choice and higher standards.

In 2001 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) postulated the theory of patient-centeredness as one of the ways in which the healthcare system could reduce patients' problems, instead of add to their burden.

So if you buy a 100GB plan, it will give you 100GB of total storage instead of adding adding to what you already had.

If desired, you could add lemon juice and salt to the water instead of adding it to the shrimp.