Sentence examples for speculated instead from inspiring English sources

They speculated instead that the thieves would demand some form of ransom.

The late Malcolm Beckwith Parkes (in his lifetime Parkes was the undisputed champion of medieval punctuation) speculated instead that the evolution of the punctus interrogativus, or question mark, was not about words but rather tone of voice.

We speculated instead that the Chinese culture played a part in this observation considering that our study population was Chinese.

So we could ignore criticism that was directed right at us and speculate instead about all those opaque symbols, those riddles, that seem to have stuck in your mind, too.

It is the crisis of a system which drove financial operators to be increasingly reckless in the risks they took, which allowed banks to speculate instead of doing their proper business of funding growth in the economy; a system, lastly, which tolerated a complete lack of control over the activities of so many financial players and markets.

So he speculates instead.

Again, when you pump money into an investment for only a short period of time hoping for a monster return, you're speculating instead of investing.

Since the monomethylation signal was one order of magnitude weaker than the H3K4me2/3 signal, we speculated that instead of being enriched in the unidirectional genes it was rather depleted in the bidirectional genes due to the bi- and trimethylation of the same residue.

Others have speculated that instead of social groups, at least some of these finds represent Komodo dragon-like mobbing of carcasses, where aggressive competition leads to some of the predators being killed and cannibalized.

It was speculated that instead of activation by large depolarization, hardly attainable in T-cells, Cav channels may be activated due to their clustering and interaction with PKC [ 287].

We speculate that instead blood donors may be driven by a broad notion of duty rather than by a far-sighted, rational unselfishness.