Sentence examples for instead of massive from inspiring English sources

I am now a philosophy professor, using teaching and writing to campaign instead of massive balloons.

Instead of massive armies colliding at Manassas, Fredericksburg, Antietam or Chickamauga, the guerrilla war was a hyper-local, hyper-personal affair.

Beijing has embarked on a fundamental transition intended to make domestic consumption the key economic driver instead of massive public spending and cheap exports.

With protruding bicycle wheels instead of massive tailfins, the scale of Mr. Cook's installation is a bit more modest, but the visual pun -- driving the vehicles into the ground -- is every bit as amusing.

China is seeking to restructure its economy to make the spending power of its nearly 1.4 billion people a key driver for growth, instead of massive government investment and cheap exports.

The atmosphere, however, would burn up most of the smaller fragments, and at least instead of massive devastation in one area there might be minimal damage spread over numerous sites.

Instead of conducting massive land wars, Obama's terrorism policy became defined by targeted assassination of Al Qaeda leaders by teams of Navy SEALS and Predator drones.

Reform advocates have long urged legislators to consider smaller secure facilities that are closer to urban centers, instead of the massive ones in rural parts of the state.

Just like the iPad, but with a more popular and more device-agnostic bookstore instead of a massive catalog of software.

But instead of a massive mixed-use edifice that would completely change the streetscape, it was a modest 12-acre space named Grand Park, which replaced an existing but unwelcoming civic center plaza.

It's the movie that many think George Lucas should have given us in 1999, instead of the massive creative mistake that was the prequel-trilogy beginning with The Phantom Menace.