Sentence examples for opposed to performing from inspiring English sources

It's the same thing you get from practising an instrument as opposed to performing with an instrument.

"I would certainly rather have my people working on real criminal cases as opposed to performing a largely ministerial act of dealing with hundreds, probably thousands, of traffic tickets," said Terry Wilhelm, the Greene County district attorney.

In this composition, Gao Ping's style is very organic: he uses the voice as an extra instrument rather than as a soloist, and all five musicians have equal importance as opposed to performing the roles of vocal line and accompaniment.

Always ambivalent about actually running a bar as opposed to performing in one, he had simplified things after his uncle's death by deciding to open only one night a week, on Fridays.

The model is applied to a representative case to illustrate the cost benefits of dispersed manufacturing as opposed to performing all manufacturing steps of a product at a single facility location.

Previous research has presented similar findings, with deficits in similar tasks more apparent during dual-task scenarios as opposed to performing a sensorimotor transformation alone [39].

What do you do when you invite a musician from a true English rock band to give a talk in a foreign country as opposed to perform his music?

The Department of Transport says: "There is little, if any, research evidence that helmets complying with one standard as opposed to another perform better in protecting the wearer in the event of a crash".

The study found that people who had used mephedrone regularly as opposed to nonusers performed much worse on various memory tests.

However, a potential problem with this is that interesting subgroups in the general population may be relatively small, such as the obese, as opposed to intervention performed by researchers, where the inclusion to the study would require a certain weight.

And you are therefore freed up to do what you're paid to do – advise, guide and promote learning by intervening with all pupils – opposed to being a performing monkey at the front of the class talking for the whole lesson.