Sentence examples for increasingly acted as from inspiring English sources

Throughout the 2001 season Hakkinen increasingly acted as an informal mentor and sounding board for his younger compatriot.

For the British left, he increasingly acted as a distant conscience; for the right, as a living reminder of how badly they had got things wrong.

Broadcast networks increasingly act as big billboards for new dramas and comedies, which are then sold and resold at a big profit to smaller channels, online services like Netflix and international channels.

Mexican soldiers increasingly act as police officers.

(Indeed, Germany increasingly acts as an agent of Finlandisation within the EU and within Nato).

Mr. Obama's team increasingly acts as though this exercise in democracy should be a coronation, and Mrs. Clinton should bow out of the room.

In the future, Mr. Mundie said, parallel software will take on tasks that make the computer increasingly act as an intelligent personal assistant.

We conclude that while all three types of inequality are rising, wealth increasingly acts as a buffer to cushion income changes, which could reduce mobility both intra- and inter-generational mobility.

However, image is everything to impressionable young people, and as long as adults tell them that they live in a war zone, then they will increasingly act as though they really do.

It is possible that affordability constraints, reinforced by lenders' underwriting standards, will increasingly act as a brake on the speed at which house prices are growing and as a brake on mortgage debt.

And database systems have been promoted even more heavily by advertising networks, like DoubleClick and Engage, that increasingly act as middlemen between sites and advertisers, inserting ads into Web pages.