Sentence examples for instead of someone else from inspiring English sources

If it is financed by taxes or by borrowing from the public, the main effect is that the government spends the funds instead of someone else.

Her counselor in heaven warns her: "If you stop asking why you were killed instead of someone else, stop investigating the vacuum left by your loss, stop wondering what everyone left on Earth is feeling, you can be free.

The last weak link with Hartsville, represented by the driver who had delivered me, disappeared (I had foolishly let him go), and I was sticking around the lobby with a nightmarish feeling that everything was an utter misunderstanding, that I had been brought here instead of someone else, and that the Voice had been looking for me hopelessly at the railroad station.

"Once you start spending your own money instead of someone else's money you know to be more careful with it," he said on MSNBC on Friday morning.

I utterly believe that books are a greater and more enchanting escape than any video game EVER because books let you use your own imagination instead of someone else's and that's beyond price.

Don't give me emotion, just give me a reason to buy your brand instead of someone else's.

If enough time is spent on adapting books and enough effort put into it I believe that they can sometimes create something truly spectacular, such as Lord of the Rings, but more often than not I'll prefer to read the book version of it and let the events play out in my own head, instead of someone elses.

Shouldn't I be home with her instead of taking care of someone else's kids?

Instead, give the gift of someone else's dreams made real, i.e., a book.

Instead of feeling resentful of someone else's relationship we can think about the aspects of that union that we'd love to emulate: Does the couple have a great sense of humor together?

I've heard of someone else instead of The Replacements.