Sentence examples for instead of the opportunity from inspiring English sources

If the replacement cost of household labor method was used in our model instead of the opportunity cost approach, the PVLE estimates would have increased by $55,000 for males and $118,000 for females.

Personally, I think we need to move away from the narrative of stress and focus instead on the opportunities for fulfilment that academia can offer.

Commissioner John A. Dolce chose to degrade his employees and insult the integrity of many of Westchester's top cops instead of taking the opportunity to outline his plan to correct an obvious problem.

But instead of welcoming the opportunity for this country of 10 million to shepherd the world's biggest trading bloc, the fiery Czech president, Vaclav Klaus, has invoked the Munich agreement of 1938, when the European powers helped to carve up Czechoslovakia.

"Instead of taking the opportunity to map a route out of debt, Nicola Sturgeon is sticking with a plan to plunge the country further into it.

Instead of seizing the opportunity to resolve age-old problems of poverty and democracy, the Bush administration has cast this trend as a major threat.

That, Brower contended, was Trump's way of "again making the job about herself and her family instead of taking the opportunity to talk about the challenges she sees other people facing".

Instead of manipulating the opportunity for mate choice with unknown effects on the process of sexual selection, we employed a novel design that allowed us to sample and measure the major components of fitness of individuals with genomes that derived ultimately from males that were either repeatedly successful (studs) or repeatedly unsuccessful (duds) at obtaining mates.

"I remember thinking, 'I might be out of my depth and it might not be a good idea', instead of grabbing the opportunity.

Instead of taking the opportunity to rest, the researchers disappeared down to the river, to look for more frogs.

Instead of taking the opportunity to set herself apart from the old man, she went out of her way to express her solidarity with him.