Sentence examples for instead of the necessary from inspiring English sources

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Team GB heptathlete Ennis ran 12.75 seconds but her time was invalidated because nine hurdles, instead of the necessary 10, were put on the track.

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The Government of the United States, instead of taking the necessary measures to prevent such violations of international law, allowed BTTR the latitude necessary to pursue their incursions, despite the fact that the organization, since 1994, had repeatedly filled false flight plans with the Federal Aviation Administration[10].

Instead of procuring the necessary funds, he was convicted of simony (selling church offices), and completely removed from his office.

Stuart had incontinently ridden the bulk of Lee's horse-soldiers in a lengthy joy ride around the Union Army instead of providing the necessary screening the Confederate Army needed in Pennsylvania, and when Stuart's cavalry rejoined Lee midway through the battle, they were much too late to affect its outcome.

We know what typical procrastination looks and feels like: we're on social media, checking emails for the tenth time in an hour, clipping our toenails, loading the dishwasher, revisiting the snack room, dragging our feet in other blatant ways--all instead of accomplishing the necessary and most important task at hand.

Instead, all of the necessary information is displayed on top of the physical object and inspectors can simply check them and report their findings using the HoloLens.

The father can take a portion of this leave instead of the mother if necessary.

The Twinings tea bag is designed for onboard water that is boiled at 89ºC, instead of the 100ºC normally necessary for making black tea.

The use of the Viton foil instead of the adhesive is necessary since the real manufacturing process cannot produce defects with defined dimensions.

Mg and its alloys are very attractive for hydrogen generation via hydrolysis because their hydrolysis reaction occurs in neutral seawater instead of the alkaline water necessary for the hydrolysis of Al and its alloys.

On the other hand, large health surveys cannot feasibly include a full burden-of-headache questionnaire; instead, the necessary minimum is a valid screening question for active headache disorder, some questions allowing determination of severity (frequency, intensity and duration), and ideally a question set for the diagnosis of migraine and TTH (as mutually exclusive diagnoses).

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