Sentence examples for instead of cracking from inspiring English sources

And the Shah, instead of cracking down, tried to find a compromise with his political opponents.

Instead of cracking down on such behaviour, or investing in the service, the transport companies have simply ingratiated themselves with government officials.

David Rabin, president of the New York Nightlife Association, suggests adding more police street patrols instead of cracking down on liquor licenses.

"It's ludicrous that the prime minister is proposing new tax loopholes that benefit high-income earners instead of cracking down on existing ones".

By Saturday morning, a sense of celebration took over the central squares of the capital as at least some members of the military encouraged the protesters instead of cracking down on them.

In March, Corning, which had made previous iPhone screens, betrayed its nervousness in its results call, dismissing sapphire as too expensive, not that much better than glass, and prone to shattering instead of cracking if dropped.

Instead of crack, he said, the set dresser put chopped-up Altoids in the pipe.

It also demonstrated that the TBC life is limited by crack propagation instead of crack initiation.

Future gains in ductility may make it possible to some day characterize the fracture resistance of bridge members in terms of yielding of the net section instead of crack tip singularity parameters.

The material's strength differential effect was the key difference explaining why compressive residual stresses instead of crack face closure was responsible for the short crack effect in this material.

Just as Mrs. Reagan was unable to tell teenagers that it was better to have sex with a condom than without, or to smoke pot instead of crack, the NCI people cannot bring themselves to admit to smokers that it is better to light up a Carlton than a Marlboro.