Sentence examples for instead of conforming from inspiring English sources

Instead of conforming to a changed situation, which is what the majority of people did, I took a risk.

Instead of conforming his ideas to the particularities of existence, he conformed his perception of reality to his vision for the world.

Like the subject of Sara L. Broers Brown's colored pencil drawing, "She's All That," a montage portrait that shows many sides of the same individual, these women have defined their own personas instead of conforming to society's expectations.

Her refreshing designs chimed with the spirit of the time, appealing to young women keen to develop a look of their own instead of conforming to the styles favoured by their mothers and aunts.

Drawing on an ethnographic study across a number of sites, we show how some organisations instead of conforming to a single measure are 'transforming' to respond to the challenge of multiple rankings, by constructing and elaborating new forms of expertise, knowledge and connection with rankers.

The cell phone market could easily put business cards out of their misery, but instead of conforming to a single standard for contact exchange, handset manufacturers offer proprietary solutions or none at all.

Instead, on conforming systems, Nulls can be sorted before or after all data values by using the NULLS FIRST or NULLS LAST clauses of the ORDER BY list, respectively.

"What if electronics conformed to us, instead of us conforming to them? … Reshaping electronics will change medicine and advance [our] quality of life," he says.

At The Steward House, instead of you conforming to an established treatment, your care conforms to your individual needs.

Notice how the hero and the heroine of the movie, in line with its title, subsist on fantasies instead of careers, conforming to a chase-your-dream credo that is not so much traditional as antique.

These independent criteria are explicitly incorporated into the third version of the political theory (Book 13), which specifies that people are to promote "care and benefit" to the clan, state, and world, instead of merely conforming to their superiors' judgments of "right" and "not".