Sentence examples for instead of face from inspiring English sources

But many prisons offer screen time instead of face time, arguing that prisoners do not need the latter since they can have the former.

But on a hillside that means the wind (which tends to follow the ground when it is close to the surface) hits the blades of the turbines at an angle, instead of face on.

In Manhattan Criminal Court on Thursday, the district attorney's office offered to allow Mr. Trummer plead guilty to two counts of disorderly conduct instead of face charges of reckless endangerment, said Mr. Trummer's lawyer, Daniel Bibb.

The legal settlement, analysts say, appears to be a calculated tactical move by AOL Time Warner to collect a tidy sum now instead of face the uncertainty of a protracted legal fight.

"Amazing to spray on the sheets, or in a room, or instead of face tonic," she said, spritzing the reporter in the face, no doubt to make her point.

Internal government documents show both tension among authorities about how to pursue the cases and suggest that at least the Treasury Department was sensitive to pressure to let big interconnected banks survive instead of face criminal charges, Ben Protess writes in DealBook.

But Americans were moving around a lot, so they started joining long-distance organisations instead of face-to-face clubs.Yet that cannot be the whole story.

For its board meeting later this week, PepsiCo said it was opting for conference calls instead of face-to-face meetings.

By atomizing our experience to the point of alienation — or, at best, by creating substitutes for common experience ("you might also like…" lists, Twitter exchanges instead of face-to-face conversations) — we lose the common thread of civil life.

By atomizing our experience to the point of alienation or, at best, by creating substitutes for common experience ("you might also like…" lists, Twitter exchanges instead of face-to-face conversations)—we lose the common thread of civil life.

Professor Simon Baron Cohen, Director of the Autism Research Centre believes they outweigh the possible risks: "We can use computers to teach emotion recognition and to simplify communication by stripping out facial and vocal emotional expressions and slowing it down using email instead of face-to-face real-time modes".