Sentence examples for instead of stranding from inspiring English sources

But instead of stranding his collection of outcasts in the outback, Mr. Wenders puts them all in a downtown Los Angeles haven for losers.

Re "As Deadline Nears, Taxi of Tomorrow Faces Court Fight and Reluctant Owners" (news article, Sept. 16): When am I going to be able to stick my hand in the air and hail a cab like anyone else instead of being stranded?

One of the keys is that audioquest is using solid wire instead of the stranded type which improves signal integrity.

Finding the ramp was definitely out, but at least I might make it back to Beijing that night instead of getting stranded by the cement plant.

Delivery problems tripped up an earlier gene-silencing technology called antisense, which uses single strands of RNA instead of double strands.

Meyer's breakthrough came in developing a method to start the sequencing process with single strands of DNA instead of double strands, as is usually done.

Finally, when modeling VDAC1, the only known Transmembrane β-barrel with an odd number of strands, tobmodel always predicts it to have 20 instead of 19 strands, resulting in a model with 16.47 Å RMSD and 0.21 TM_score.

So bargain-hunters may opt for a single-pearl pendant instead of a strand or may choose lower-quality cultured pearls, whose prices are also rising but not as rapidly.

Basically, the material (made of "metallo-supramolecular polymers") isn't actually polymeric, but acts like it; instead of long strands of molecules, there are lots of shorter ones, and in most cases they act the same.

Comparing with what has been reported very recently in the literature (Gratz et al., 2013), we achieved a much higher efficiency of HDR by using Lig4 mutant flies as recipients for injection; we directly inject DNA plasmids instead of single-strand oligonucleotides, thus our approach is more practical for donor preparation, especially when longer homologous sequences are needed.

This is the reverse of a French braid, where instead of braiding strands over each other you braid them under.