Sentence examples for instead of the opposite from inspiring English sources

Then, see that government policies encourage responsible living, instead of the opposite.

His conflict with the church was that he said the Earth revolved around the Sun, instead of the opposite.

"The news might prevent some people from listening to the music instead of the opposite being true," he said.

"The good news is: it really encourages information-sharing from the privacy-sharing from the government to the private sector, instead of the opposite direction, which is the scary part," Richardson said.

The authors offer multiple possible explanations of these results: perhaps empathy influences beliefs about happiness instead of the opposite; some other trait influences both beliefs about happiness and empathy; or their experiment did not successfully influence beliefs about happiness at all.

In an interview with the critic Scott Foundas, Mr. Resnais spoke of the interplay between reality and art, which is "really a matter of life imitating art instead of the opposite — the way we often feel the emotions of everyday life as if they had already registered on the screen".

This year, however, the most compelling innovation in capital markets was not found at the Beverly Hilton but instead, on the opposite side of the country.

I found myself reaching instead for the opposite end of the spectrum of meaning –for the extraordinary, the inexplicable, the confounding.

Without adequate nutrients, it could even lead to losing muscle mass instead of fat -- the opposite of what you want to accomplish when losing weight.

All of this could be reduced by consumers staying healthy and thus preventing disease instead of doing the opposite and then complaining about the costs of correcting what they did to themselves.

I think many people have a fantasy instead of strangling the opposite side.