Sentence examples for instead of material from inspiring English sources

Is it better to give experiences instead of material objects?

In this new kind, instead of material homogenization the main aim is to simplify the structural geometry.

The election of Duffield has pleased the Wood managers immensely, but they have accepted it as a psychological instead of material victory.

New studies of consumption and happiness show, for instance, that people are happier when they spend money on experiences instead of material objects, when they relish what they plan to buy long before they buy it, and when they stop trying to outdo the Joneses.

Experts in happiness — an increasingly popular field focused on the scientific understanding of emotional well-being — say that people are happier when they spend money on experiences instead of material goods, whether it be a new car or a bigger apartment.

Place more value on experiences and the people in your life instead of material things.

Instead of material-func, you can use epsilon-func: for epsilon-func, you give it a function of position that returns the dielectric constant at that point.

I was surprised by the diversity of materials -- natural stucco, shingles, brick, raw wood, steel siding -- because I expected that diversity would be achieved by paint color instead of materials.

He's accused of gross negligence for building the frame of the fireplaces with combustible materials, instead of materials such as brick, and for not building any firebreaks inside the walls.

From this point of view, the current results may be perceived as an argument not to favour the financing of materials containing narrative information instead of materials containing non-narrative information.

One option is to focus the analysis on single raw materials instead of aggregated material groups.