Sentence examples for instead of reassuring from inspiring English sources

In the end Labour chased its own tail, stirring more fear of crime instead of reassuring.

Few dared to say that it was irresponsible to emotionally destabilise children instead of reassuring them.

Instead of reassuring her that this was entirely normal, the doctor recommended, and carried out, surgery on her labia.

Instead of reassuring me that this was only my imagination, my mother asked me to pass along messages.

Instead, he suggested, "We can find value in stories that admit the world is tumultuous, instead of reassuring us that it is not".

Sky News showed the same pictures of queues over and over again, even after the Government had announced it was standing behind Northern Rock – instead of reassuring people the announcement made them worried.

But they have acknowledged that some immigrants have been panicked by what they have heard and read about the new order, instead of reassured.

That should help him put a rapid end to months of domestic political squabbling and focus instead on reassuring financial markets that Portugal can stick to its fiscal targets.

Once everyone realized that instead of a reassuring step back, the plan would actually require a ground-shifting departure, it collapsed.

He may have been left feeling that he had been deemed the villain of the piece instead of being reassured that he was the victim at the vortex of a political storm.

The 62-year-old nun said how she would often share her questions with her seniors, but instead of being reassured, she was told that people are simply following 'god's will'.