Sentence examples for instead of robbing from inspiring English sources

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Instead of robbing the far right of votes, Mr Sarkozy appears now to be handing them support.

Instead of robbing people for money, the hoodlums strip them of their shoes - Timberland shoes, to be precise, made in the U.S.A.

"Satellite" could be described as a yuppie "Bonnie and Clyde" in which alienated corporate climbers break the rules, but instead of robbing banks, they commit petty crimes.

It's more comforting to cover the police as reckless towards African Americans instead of robbing them.

"He could have been working for a bank instead of robbing one very, very clever guy".

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"What I say is 'Why would I want Charlie Rangel robbing me, instead of Tom DeLay robbing me?'" His "Young Turks" followers mounted a fierce letter and e-mail campaign to land Uygur a regular hosting spot at MSNBC.

But if you really want to crime it up the right way, you should join a bank instead of rob it: You still get the money, but you are far less likely to go to jail.

Three albums in, they keep impressing with their ability to make the musical heritage their own instead of just robbing the historical treasure mound.

"The BMA believes that each patient should get the treatment they need where and when they need it, instead of essentially robbing one part of the system to pay for another".

Instead of Han robbing a space train, we'd get to watch Lando twirl his goofy mustache all around Cloud City or whatever.

And still they ate it up, and voted like robbers instead of the robbed.

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