Sentence examples for help rather than a from inspiring English sources

Her family connections are undoubtedly a help rather than a hindrance.

Hopefully today's deal will be a help rather than a hindrance in this much-needed energy and climate effort.

As for the second two, if the wishes behind them do someday come true, it may not be clear that the invasion of Iraq was a help rather than a hindrance.

In addition, spending cuts and the hollowing out of state welfare, he acknowledges, increasingly leaves Trussell in danger of becoming a de facto substitute for state help, rather than a junior partner.

Some of the strategies and insights gained from this body of research are already visible in most children's hospitals: a place for parents to sleep, even in the intensive care unit; including parents in so-called family-centered rounds; a staff attuned to interpret a parent's extreme behavior as a cry for help, rather than a source of irritation and extra work.

The court offered a partial answer in 2006, ruling that a crime victim's emergency call to 911 is a cry for help rather than a testimonial statement, and can therefore be admitted, but that statements given to the police at the crime scene amount to testimony and must be excluded.

And this may finally be a state where his religion will be a help rather than an invitation for the religious right to mutter about the anti-Christ.

In some cases, the policy may be forcing companies to see R&D collaborations more as a help rather than as a hindrance.

Hence, in some cases, the policy of 'innovation by coercion' can have positive outcomes for it forces academia and industry to see joint collaborations more as a help rather than as a hindrance.

In his failed bid for the Labour leadership in 2010, David Miliband made a far more cerebral case for Hardie as a self-help, rather than a statist, socialist.

Although this train-the-trainer model appeared to be a feasible and acceptable strategy and results were consistent with those reported in the literature for self-help treatment, it should be noted that this study investigated a programme-led approach (guided self-help) rather than a therapist-led approach.