Sentence examples for instead of gathering from inspiring English sources

When approaching a decision, we have a natural tendency to pick an alternative and then to gather information to support that decision, instead of gathering information and then choosing a side (this is called confirmation bias).

Everybody said that the regime would collapse during the month of Ramadan, because instead of gathering at the mosque for prayer only on Fridays, people gathered every night.

Follow the same steps but instead of gathering all of your hair up into a ponytail, simply gather the top of your hair up into a loop.

Instead of gathering, why don't we scatter to the four winds?

Instead of gathering us into the town square, the new information technology clusters us into social cubicles.

"Instead of gathering and creating problems in Al Tahrir Square, now there is always fighting between the drunk people in the street and inside the clubs.

So instead of just gathering statistics, let's gather data that is meaningful and useful.

"UNOPS [the UN Office for Project Services] is our professional service provider out there gathering the information, while other humanitarian staff can concentrate on running good programmes instead of onerously gathering information and inputting data, before discovering that we are missing information.

Public meetings can become dysfunctional and turn into media spectacles instead of actually gathering the opinions of the public.

It may not have been until about 4,700 years ago in Mexico that they were established as true farmers, planting and harvesting corn and beans, as well as squash, instead of just gathering wild plants.

This is, consequently, enabling companies to spend more time figuring out who their target audience is, instead of actually gathering their information.