Sentence examples for instead of trend from inspiring English sources

In 1988 Arneson stated his belief that RPGs, whether paper or computer, were still "hack and slash" and did not teach novices how to play, and that games like Ultima IV "have stood pretty much alone as quirks instead of trend setters" as others did not follow their innovations.

Instead of trends, Futures Research pays increasing attention to black swans and wild cards (see above) and weak signals.

Try being a trend-setter, instead of a trend-follower!

What I mean by that is instead of the trend being upwards it is downwards.

This algorithm, instead of removing trend with a priori mathematical formulas such as linear or polynomial functions [14], [29], could evaluate the hidden dynamics of heart beat fluctuations better [9], [10], [29].

As the least squares objective will keep on decreasing with increasing number of parameters, the optimal number of knots will be infinity, rendering a perfect fit of the measurement noise instead of the trend.

Whereas it is evident that sub-national estimates are needed, a key question remains: Can we derive a more accurate understanding of the national HIV epidemic by monitoring trends within states instead of monitoring trends in the urban and rural areas?

Lately, though, many of these institutions and mechanisms have become procyclical: instead of countering trends, they amplify them.

Instead of eyeing trends, the label looks at "what's interesting to guys and build[s] around that".

And in directing attention toward behavior in individual households instead of national trends and overarching theories, he helped revive the field of development economics, which is now largely concerned with the micro rather than macro.

Last week we saw that the government had overstated the failings of the NHS by using dodgy figures (to be precise, they used misleading static figures instead of time trends).