Sentence examples for instead of grasping from inspiring English sources

Instead of grasping for excuses, Villa put the club's troubles in simple terms.

Both candidates should be looking to the broader issue of legitimacy instead of grasping for short-term advantage.

And instead of grasping desperately for ways to expand on its premise, in the disappointing manner of many other such books, "Rules of Deception" develops an entertainingly serpentine complexity.

Yet, instead of grasping this option, the government seems to have gone out of its way to hamper renewables by slashing support and creating a capricious, unstable policy environment.

Since I discovered meditation, and the forms of self-acceptance that the practice fosters, my perspective has changed: stillness instead of paralysis, immersion in a given mood instead of grasping after one that's out of reach.

We fell back on stereotypes - ones also used by the most impeccable of academic sources - referring to Katine as "medieval", as if it offered the opportunity for time travel instead of grasping that its fate has been part of a very contemporary phenomenon of a continent awash with modern weaponry, social disruption and power conflicts.

Under the same setting, compound similarity for drugs and sequence identity for targets, instead of GRASP fingerprints, showed broader distributions of similarities for the three datasets which were overlapped with each other (Fig. 6b and Fig. S4).

"Outrageously, instead of ministers grasping the nettle, it has been left to G4S and Serco to rule themselves out of contracts, a decision neither company should ever have been left to take," he said.

The experimental procedure was the same as in Experiment 1, with the only difference being that participants were presented with 256 unique video clips (grasp-to-pour, N = 128, grasp-to-drink, N = 128), instead of 100 (grasp-to-pour, N = 50, grasp-to-drink, N = 50).

Impaired steps included a foot slip where the limb fell between the rungs or an incorrectly placed step where either the ankle or the tips of the digits were placed on the rung instead of proper grasping of the rung.

Standardized tests calibrate approval exclusively with right and wrong answers instead of any grasp of why an answer is correct or, better yet, why the question was posed in the first place.