Sentence examples for instead of streets from inspiring English sources

Venice is often cited as the largest car-free city, but they have it easy, with canals and rivers instead of streets.

"Most people come to Venice just to see this strange place that has water instead of streets," says Jane Da Mosto, who moved to the area from London and established a cultural preservation group.

Instead of streets devoted to the car, the first new street in the centre for 50 years is pledged to pedestrians, linking two of Manchester's oldest buildings the Cathedral and St Ann's church.

Houses right up against houses, narrow walkways instead of streets.

In the US, picnics, instead of street protests, won the day.

Roy David Urtecho, Honduras's attorney-general, recently warned that the maras were seeking "to establish themselves as legitimate traffickers instead of street-level thugs".

MCI claims the company has also taken first to rejecting addresses that used "st" instead of "street" and then the reverse.

Mrs. Nawaz had told reporters in Peshawar that the party would mark the first anniversary of the Oct. 12 coup with indoor meetings instead of street demonstrations.

When a young man named Seaweed, played by Corey Reynolds, flicks opens a switchblade in a moment of crisis, it's with a Boy Scout spirit of resourcefulness instead of street menace.

Like others in the Brotherhood, he dismissed the idea that its members could ever hope for fairness under the military-led government, and after his turn through Egypt's capricious and politicized judicial system he laughed with particular relish at the idea that instead of street protests they might put their trust in the law and the courts.

The initiative is being supported by local homeless charity the Harbour Place Day Centre, which is the organisation police suggest members of the public should give money to instead of street beggars.