Sentence examples for instead of face to face from inspiring English sources

"My answer is, 'I don't know.' " Mr. Gladstone, a genial manager who wears a BlackBerry on his hip, knows which employees have new babies, which have sick relatives and which prefer to discuss their problems by telephone instead of face to face.

This often results in clinicians relying on brochure-type education provided to the patient and family at the end of their visit, instead of face to face education where there is an opportunity for questions and clarification of individual issues.

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".

While Facebook can provide a sense of familiarity, it is also building a new relationship on top of an online foundation instead of face-to-face interaction.

Today, the default choice seems to be putting our heads down into our phones instead of face-to-face connection with each other.

We have adapted the scale by mildly reframing the items to assess internet treatment instead of face-to-face treatment.

However, this problem should be relieved since we used anonymous self-administered questionnaire instead of face-to-face survey.