Sentence examples for instead of help from inspiring English sources

Could the gap in the calendar then hurt him instead of help him?

The policy of containment which was put in place really seemed to mean "we will watch the country instead of help to fix it".

This no-snitch mentality is not a new challenge to police, who are often frustrated by shooting victims who choose to retaliate on their own instead of help police take a dangerous person off the street.

Instead of help from The Hague, he favours selling the government-owned oil refinery on the island, currently operated by Venezuela's state oil company.Two years after Anguilla, and coincidentally on May 30th, Curaçao had its own uprising.

At school teachers told us that if we were attacked we should scream "Fire" instead of "Help", so that even the most selfish strangers would respond, fearing for their lives.

Arrington started off the talk saying what a room full of professors and college students dreaded to hear that a college education can hinder instead of help the path of a brilliant entrepreneur.

Instead of helping, he said, looters clambered over the vehicle.

"Instead of helping him, the cops asked for autographs.

Instead of helping her boys, she said, Ridgefield Academy rejected them.

Instead of helping women, the law hurt women.

Instead of helping people cope with their need, we will help them to move beyond it.