Sentence examples for instead of being visited from inspiring English sources

This is pretty much the plot to the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, with Morrison as Scrooge, if instead of being visited by three ghosts, Scrooge had spent Christmas Eve imprisoning Tiny Tim and holding him to ransom until Bob Cratchit gave him what he wanted.

A narrow stack of a matching state means that the state is likely to be deleted instead of being visited in a path.

Instead wetlands were visited for short periods of time and used for bathing and drinking.

Instead of dying, he is visited by the ghost (or dream) of Idi Amin.

All places of interest (PoI) and pickup/dropout points are identified with arcs of the network (instead of nodes), each of which can be visited at least once (instead of exactly once).

In the MDVRP, there are several depots instead of just one depot and every customer is visited by a vehicle based at one of the several existing depots, while every vehicle route must start and end at the same depot.

Instead, her brother's family of four was visiting from Virginia, making for an unusually crowded household.

Instead of relying on telemarketing, Monster is visiting employers to show off these products.In early February Monster announced a deal to buy HotJobs, a rival listings site, from Yahoo!

And there they were on the phone last week with an 11th-hour plea to come on Sunday, instead of Saturday, when they would be visiting the aforementioned son (they each thought the other had already called).

If not, see if you can crash with a friend in the city you're visiting instead of paying for a hotel room.

Stay at a bed and breakfast instead of a traditional hotel if you're visiting London; breakfast is included.