Sentence examples for instead of facts from inspiring English sources

Uses a short analogy instead of facts and statistics.

Before we had our Encyclopædia Britannica,everybody had opinions instead of facts,which they stuck to, uncorrected, unto death.

"The president last night spouted more malice and misinformation, appealing to fear instead of facts," she said.

When management acts on opinions instead of facts, or if opinions are undistinguishable from facts, the company will soon find itself on a downward slope.

What emerges from the narration instead of facts are exquisite details that translate instantly into memory: of a time when mothers used phone trees to pass along news, when kids hung out in basements with sliding glass doors, when a teenager "could practically feel the adult pushing out, pushing forward into the world".

With the natural-is-best adage driving a parenting culture of fear instead of facts, it's nice to see a company explain rather than acquiesce.

When protests erupt over news gathering, the usual complaint is that someone printed fiction instead of fact, rumor rather than truth.

Cable news is now peopled with commentators who serve up opinion and interpretation instead of news, just as the Internet is awash in bloggers who trade in gossip and speculation instead of fact.

And if some of the martyr stories we have are fiction instead of fact, can they still serve a positive purpose?

Last week, in what the account describes as an effort to present "actual facts, instead of alternative facts,'' they were joined by the nation's most important public-health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Then I tried a new approach: asking questions to get them thinking instead of reciting facts.