Sentence examples for instead of road from inspiring English sources

Instead of smooth curves and long straightaways, it had rocky climbs and hairpin turns; instead of road signs and lane lines, G.P.S. waypoints.

At the start of the negotiations, the companies took the position that they would offer rivals the same terms as AOL was offering to use Time Warner's cable systems instead of Road Runner, an Internet provider owned by Time Warner, AT&T, Cox Communications and others.

All the classic hallmarks of the right-wing are there: the pseudo-religious language (compare their lyrics to the Ayn Rand quote at the head of this article), which extends right down to calling the touring crew – road masters instead of road managers.

This is important as governments generally try to encourage rail freight transport and SSS transport instead of road freight transport.

In a sense, Table 2 quantifies the risk for COOP of using rail instead of road if road is showing no, or a very low degree of, variability in transportation time.

Instead of roads, you had trees and canals.

Instead of roads and bridges to nowhere, they want doctors, nurses and economic opportunity.

Instead of roads I walked along bright white chalk tracks through peaceful vineyards.

For the current survey, teams of workers fanned out across Congo, a nation as big as the United States east of the Mississippi, but with rivers instead of roads, canoes and bicycles instead of airplanes and cars.

Half our downtown's boarded up and they're building birdhouses instead of roads.

It was chosen instead of roads or a rail system because the favela is so densely packed with houses, it was the less disruptive option.