Sentence examples for instead of bridging from inspiring English sources

Instead of bridging differences, the broad government has seemed to exacerbate them.

Yet, instead of bridging the gulf between the social classes, distinctions were carefully preserved in the interests of the state.

But instead of bridging the wall, China has since built a new one, in cyberspace — the largest system of Internet censorship, control and surveillance in the world, nicknamed the Great Firewall of China.

And he reminds us that while the country itself is not more divided than it has been in the past (especially when compared, say, with the 1960s or the 1860s), the nation's current political system accentuates differences instead of bridging them.

It seems like [Conflict Kitchen] was trying to perpetuate the conflict instead of bridging the gaps to solve it".

Everyone keeps talking about the digital divide, but instead of bridging it, it keeps on getting bigger.

Instead of Bridge Today, the Granovetters are now producing a weekly bridge quiz.

Instead of bridges being built, walls are going up around the west.

But Jane E. Brody's column "A Dental Shift: Implants Instead of Bridges" (Personal Health, Nov. 17) may lead readers to believe, incorrectly, that bridges are inferior to implants.

For instance, after Citic Securities, an investment company owned by the Chinese government, bought a stake in Bear Stearns last fall, he wrote: "Jimmy Cayne, Bear's C.E.O., may start wearing red suspenders and playing Mah Jong instead of bridge".

After he visited the border during a visit to Mexico in February, the pope said that politicians who propose building walls instead of bridges are "not Christian," leading to a scuffle with Trump.