Sentence examples for instead of observing from inspiring English sources

Therefore, instead of observing characteristics and explaining people using objective observations, he asked the respondents to explain their world, as they perceive it [25].

So he chose a novel but controversial approach: instead of observing an election, he participated in one.

"He was encouraging the M.B.A. students at Stanford to jump into running their own businesses, instead of observing other businesses," she said.

And here we arrive at the real ghost that haunts these books, the one that sends us to Paris or Berlin for help: the sense that American parents have gone radically wrong, making themselves and their kids miserable in the process, by hovering over them like helicopters instead of observing them from a watchtower, at a safe distance.

Instead of observing men and women's struggles in a global, industrialised context, he sought out the natural world in what he calls its most "pristine" state, spending eight years on the road in 35 countries and in places as diverse as Siberia, Papua New Guinea, Alaska and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

But what if, instead of observing the modern mind from the outside — its immersion in thought, its paralysis of will, its tangled motives, its confusion of time planes — what if the novelist were to record this from the inside, let the hero tell his own story, in a way that reflected as faithfully as possible the movements of his psyche?

Comparing accuracy of genomic evaluation across three scenarios of genotype imputation we found that for three traits there was no significant loss of accuracy of genomic prediction if genotypes in validation animals were with high accuracy (R = 0.95) instead of observed.

"Instead of just observing the conduct in election week, they should really start taking notes and analysing the actions unfolding in Nauru at the moment because they have a direct bearing on the fairness of the election," he said.

In the last act Ben Whishaw's Konstantin, instead of quietly observing that Trigorin has not even cut the pages of a story of his, angrily slams the magazine down in front of everyone which makes him look like a petulant hysteric.

Then, instead of just observing events, the rats were given an opportunity to cause them.

Instead of just observing the customer patterns of one individual site, it is overseeing the marketing campaigns and transactions of all 10,000 clients.