Sentence examples for instead of sustained from inspiring English sources

His icons are so reductive, they just stimulate chatter instead of sustained looking.

Instead of sustained jokes in a program that maintains a breakneck momentum as it compacts more than two dozen songs into a nonsensical joyride, there are mostly asides.

Whether these individual efforts succeed or fail hardly matters; what's important is that the art form of ballet, too often mired in its traditions instead of sustained by them, moves forward.

Instead of sustained commitment to collective solidarity we now have the "Big Society", which means that by giving Tiny Tim a bit of turkey at Christmas you have cleansed your conscience and are free to go back to business as usual.

When you are so cash-constrained, it also limits how much you can build your company, and you think in terms of short-term wins instead of sustained growth.

But in oscillators with nonlinear restoring forces such as the pendulum, Duffing and Duffing Van der Pol oscillator, the resonant frequency changes as the amplitude changes, so a constant frequency drive results in a beat oscillation instead of sustained resonance.

Criminal organizations siphon 100 billion euros from the legal economy, a sum equivalent to 7 percent of G.D.P. — money that ends up in the hands of Mafiosi instead of sustaining the government or law-abiding Italians.

So instead of sustaining net exports with U.S. buying, the euro is left to appreciate to the point where there are no net exports.

Even if the leaves are still green, trimming them can refocus the plant's energy on encouraging root growth instead of sustaining the leaves.

Unlike formally recognized PTSD diagnoses, C-PTSD doesn't stem from a singular event, but is instead the result of sustained abuse and powerlessness, from which the victim has little hope of escape.

He was enthusiastic about a new type of electric fencing that is highly visible and deliveries a quick shock instead of a sustained one.