Sentence examples for instead of children from inspiring English sources

Instead of children automatically taking their father's surname, parents were given four options.

The whole concept of our reforms falls apart if you use it to expand selection – because instead of children and parents choosing schools, you get schools choosing children.

Instead of children bored out of their minds being taught how to use Word and Excel by bored teachers, we could have 11 year-olds able to write simple 2D computer animations using an MIT tool called Scratch.

She joined poets engaged in political-poetic resistance to the Vietnam War, as can be seen in "The Burning of Paper Instead of Children" (1968), which includes lines like "Frederick Douglass wrote an English purer than Milton's".

Concerta is preferred by many specialists because it is slow-acting, working over a 12-hour period, instead of children having to take Ritalin tablets three or four times a day.

Anthropomorphic dogs serve as protagonists instead of children, a strategy that works well since animal characters always expand the range of potential identification by sidestepping issues of race, age, looks and even gender.

A movement is afoot among European law enforcement officials to call the photos "child abuse images" instead of "child pornography".

Allows drivers to put children who are under 4 but weigh more than 40 pounds in booster seats, instead of child-safety seats they are currently required to use.

"Deputy district attorney" and "deputy public defender," for instance, instead of "child molestation prosecutor" or "violent crimes counsel".

As regards child anxiety, much research has relied on fairly broad indices of child reactive/difficult temperament or internalizing problems instead of child anxiety complaints or disorders.

They gave it away by using the first-person singular in writing about their children: "My children instead of our children".