Sentence examples for instead of failing from inspiring English sources

As one parent at Cory Elementary said to me, it's like saying our child failed math by 39%, instead of failing math with a 37% like he did last year.

Teachers were instructed to fail only students who did not attend classes, or to give students incompletes instead of failing grades for missed work, the report said.

I would write about science for a living instead of failing to do it.

We want to do a health degree where at the end of the first year, instead of failing, if you have 10 out of 20, maybe you're not going to be a doctor, because you need 14 or 15.

However, despite a deluge of publicity – especially about Ms Chapman, the "Mata Hari" who, according to one American tabloid, had "Sexy Red Agent's Locks to Die For" – the members of the "spy ring" did not face any spying-related charges, and were accused, instead, of failing to register with the US authorities as representatives of a foreign power and omitting to declare income for tax purposes.

Instead of failing, the scanner suggests that the blue M&M contains ibuprofen.

Instead of automatically failing me, the teachers now gave me unbelievably high marks.

The referee Massimo Busacca was sure he had played on intentionally and had a rare shot at Barcelona's goal instead of simply failing to hear the whistle.

Instead of silently failing when an app tries to call up a recipient app that isn't installed, the OS could request to download and install it.

For what contingent facts could have made it the case that, for a given possibile a, instead of simply failing to exist, there was no such thing as a at all?

We see in this instance the failure of our politics, policies, and practices, realized as the implementation and justification of increased military spending, instead of addressing failing domestic infrastructure in the face of very real threats of global warming.