Sentence examples for instead of chipping away from inspiring English sources

"Instead of chipping away at the problem," he said, "I felt the best way to do this was to reform general education.

Instead of chipping away at large objects to make small ones, or combining large pieces into a larger whole, future inventors will assemble new inventions by moving nature's building blocks on the atomic and molecular levels.

Having undergone years of probing analysis himself, Hartman was enthralled by the fact that instead of chipping away at the tough layer of ego, LSD melted it entirely and gave way to the molten subconscious underneath.

A two-coat application will ensure that the color lasts instead of chipping away.

The essential but delicate task of chipping away at India's mountain of inefficient subsidies which would allow vast sums to be spent instead on improving India's physical and human infrastructure has not even been started.

Your songs are very deep -- describe the songwriting process... it's a process of "chipping away".

I felt it was my environmental duty to use these freebies instead of throwing them away, but I despaired of ever chipping away at the stack.

Ms. Weaver said the experience has taught them patience: whether that meant waiting to use their single car while the other was out, or saving enough to buy a second car, or taking day trips instead of having out-of-town vacations, or chipping away at debt keeping them from buying a house.

The limits of chipping away could soon be breached.

Instead, he turned it into his own stash, chipping away a couple of grams each day so his parents wouldn't notice.

The updates, Microsoft said, are one example of how the company is constantly chipping away at the reasons people have for buying iPhones and Google's Android phones instead of Windows Phones.