Sentence examples for instead of preventing them from inspiring English sources

The U.N. peacekeeping mission in the town abetted the killings instead of preventing them.

Existing technologies focus on detecting falls instead of preventing them; however, notification after a fall has taken place does nothing to lower the fall rate among the elderly.

Most of the money, around $3.5 billion, was spent addressing child protection problems instead of preventing them occurring in the first place.

Given the scope of corruption and all the difficulties associated with combatting the problem, the region's security services will unfortunately continue to be relegated to the role of firemen -- putting out fires, instead of preventing them.

The higher prevalence of pain and its intensity across the country results from a curative health policy, which aims at solving the problems instead of preventing them.

Furthermore, in the intensive model case management is often introduced before diagnosis, which seems to be more beneficial as case managers are able to direct care towards preventing crises, while case managers in the linkage model have to work more reactively and try to solve problems instead of preventing them.

The issue here is not about keeping the transmission of electronic communications private, but instead, about preventing them from being stored on computers, servers and devices.

Only instead of preventing kidnappings, they carried them out. .

"We learned that, instead of preventing people from using the service on the phone, if we can convince them to come in and use it, they are more likely to upgrade," he said.

But, increasingly, he felt that he was merely reacting to crime instead of preventing it.

Instead of preventing the guru's protest, or letting it take its course, the government tried to control it.