Sentence examples for instead of lifts from inspiring English sources

Both stations were so busy they were soon equipped with escalators instead of lifts and the ticket halls were shifted into the basements freeing up most of the street level structures for conversion to shops.

Following their successful introduction at Earl's Court in 1911, the station was the first on the line to be designed to use escalators instead of lifts.

If you are staying in an earthquake prone area, be aware of some rules on how to act when an earthquake strike, e.g. come out in the open space, use staircase instead of lifts, never stand near the compound wall, make use of your car as an alternate arrangement for staying etc.

"We do a lot of sliding instead of lifting," said Stephan Koch, Costic's assistant.

Ultimately, the soul men's expensive studio gloss holds Ashcroft back instead of lifting him.

Harvesting water from asteroids, instead of lifting it off the Earth's surface, would be a huge saving.

Occasionally, instead of lifting or braking, said the driver Ricky Rudd, the counterintuitive best step is to accelerate.

Instead of lifting the Philippines up, the Americans found themselves having to suppress an insurrection, at a cost of more than 4,000 lives.

They are supporting:   Keeping the top rate of tax at 45p instead of lifting it to 50p (ie, George Osborne's current policy, not Ed Balls' current policy).

Each time lobbyists game the system or politicians tear each other down instead of lifting this country up, we lose faith.

Instead of lifting the Lombardi Trophy, the Browns finished 3-13, fired their coach, released their most recent first-round quarterback and are picking No2 overall in the draft.