Sentence examples for instead of improving them from inspiring English sources

The policy was going to curb living standards instead of improving them.

In the Confessions (1782 89), which he wrote late in life, Rousseau says that it came to him then in a "terrible flash" that modern progress had corrupted people instead of improving them.

This backstory lends his walk a delightful specificity: he cannot pass a hospital without musing over someone who used to work there, or reflecting on the idiosyncrasies of the old system or the way the big business of even a state-run hospital system leads to the closure of small specialist hospitals, instead of "improving them to meet local needs".

Take a break from editing to actually read the articles, instead of improving them.

Instead of improving our lives, it's vexing them.

Compared with previous years when environmental policies played second fiddle to growth, officials are now enforcing them at all costs – sometimes harming, instead of improving, people's quality of life.

Instead of improving disability rights, they are retrogressing.

Instead of improving in his fourth season, Sanchez has regressed.

Instead of improving our political climate, we were treated to diatribes about personal choices.

Instead of improving upon the legislation, an acrimonious Washington sought to suffocate it.

Instead of improving communication and collaboration, as intended, bad meetings undermine those things.