Sentence examples for instead of desiring from inspiring English sources

Instead of desiring that some project of mine succeed, which is a desire that might be thwarted by my death, I might instead adopt a conditionalized version of this desire, namely: should I live on, let my project succeed.

If you say to yourself, "I have to go to the gym this week" instead of desiring to go to the gym -- it's not Me Time.

Cooper says that in a typical American courtroom drama, the audience is treated as if it were the jury, but in this system, instead of desiring the hero be proven innocent, the audience seeks instead to have the guilt transferred from Anderton to Burgess.

Hydroaminoalkylation reactions of group IV metals-based complexes are rare and are active for styrene polymerization, but they produce branched products instead of desired linear hydroaminoalkylated products of alkenes which are industrially more important.

After strong retail sales early in the year, the return to cautious spending could signal that frugal habits are not just a hangover from the recession, but that many Americans now shop mostly out of necessity instead of desire.

"I wanted them to have the goods everyone wanted instead of them desiring things other people had".

The results show that: (i) Larger core-particle size and smaller nano-particle size are helpful for improving electrode properties; (ii) The required nano-particle loading is determined by the desired electronic conductivity instead of the desired TPB length.

Hence, the beam would have failed in flexure instead of the desired web-shear failure mode.

With the proposed countermeasure, the maximum overshoot achieved by the plant was 10.12% (instead of the desired 50%).

When highly homologous to mtDNA and/or present in a high number of copies, they may be co-amplified with or instead of the desired mtDNA sequence, thus becoming a source of contamination in mtDNA analyses.

The existence of optimum rpm could be explained by the swirling effect at higher speeds in unbaffled vessels that leads to concentration of solid instead of the desired suspension [27].