Sentence examples for instead of the proper from inspiring English sources

Instead of the proper pension reforms seen elsewhere, he has marginally lengthened the contribution period.

Because the apostrophe is used in so many possessive forms, many people use it's (which is, of course, a contraction for it is or it has) instead of the proper possessive pronoun its.

When I meet the right man, I won't care what he smells like or what shape his teeth are in or that he pronounces the end of his gerunds with an "-een" instead of the proper "-ing".

The NTSB evaluated the data from the tests and found that the pilot initiated the rotation five knots earlier at 119 knots instead of the proper rotation speed of 124 knots.

One of the most common bad habits youth players do when hitting is to swing with an upper cut instead of the proper "high to low" swing.

In particular, the new reliability can be obtained by (14) considering instead of, and the proper value of to obtain a desired reliability can be evaluated on the basis of (15).

In 2004, a court in San Francisco rejected a conservative group's challenge to a statute allowing gay marriage because the operative phrases were separated incorrectly by a semicolon instead of by the proper conjunction.

It would be utterly unacceptable to take foreign aid funds from the poorest people on Earth, as some have now suggested, instead of finding the proper resources for flood prevention.

Instead of accuracy the proper model has to fulfill also requirement on the computation time.

And instead of doing the proper thing, which is to go by a person's social security number and get their legal address from the tax authorities, someone at the Sami council electoral register just googled "Elin Unnes" and I popped up.

In a previous entry, I made a somewhat pompous assertion that Americans tend to mispronounce Niger, calling it "Nigh-ger" instead of the more proper "Nee-jair".