Sentence examples for instead of encountering from inspiring English sources

Instead of encountering Ulay walking towards me from the opposite direction, I found him waiting for me in a scenic spot between two temples.

But instead of encountering Godwin's Law in the comments, you might start encountering Google instead.

Instead of encountering water, Williams hit a shallow oil deposit.

Necessarily, it would be easier for it to exist within the walls of a monastery where these temptations could be minimal if not eliminated entirely instead of encountering them regularly in wandering ascetic travels.

But today, instead of encountering an adult who'll try to set them straight and/or discipline them, these children will meet cameras and microphones that encourage, magnify even venerate their boorish public behavior.

Instead of encountering handsome men and hearing, "It was great to meet you - can I take you for dinner on Saturday?", why am I drowning in a dizzying storm of text messages and mixed signals and ambiguous interactions and missed connections?

This is lazy dramaturgy: it offers behaviour patterns instead of encounters, narrative instead of choice and antagonism in place of conflict.

Villages, instead of being encountered frequently as in the south, become scattered.

Such an ability promotes assortative, instead of random, encounters between complementary sexes by adjustment of the individual's sex or location correspondingly to the environment.

Similarly to Dragon Quest IX, the game features visible enemy encounters instead of random encounters, unique backgrounds and enemies that have individual attack characteristics.

It introduced real-time battles instead of random encounters.