Sentence examples for instead of helped from inspiring English sources

"We were shocked to find how many survivors are sick, living in poverty and stigmatised, ignored, and often rejected instead of helped by the government," said Agnes Odhiambo, senior Africa women's rights researcher at HRW.

22. Laughed instead of helped when your child got stuck inside their shirt, tripped and fell or mispronounced a word like "fork".

It would be several years before the reality behind going country – its rapidly rising pervasiveness and the fact so many exploited people were being locked up instead of helped – would be accepted.

But despite our activism in these movements we just aren't turning out for feminism, partly because unlike Black Lives Matter, and LGBT, feminism has been hurt by social media instead of helped.

Thousands of these kids are being written off and left to end up in prison for years, or a lifetime, instead of helped to become responsible, educated and socially-connected adults.

"Criminalizing Bresha in this context sends a harmful message to survivors and their children — that even in the most desperate of situations, they will be punished instead of helped," the OrganizeFor petition reads.

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.