Sentence examples for instead of tough from inspiring English sources

"Instead of tough times pulling us apart, they've brought us together," he says.

Instead of tough talk about trouncing competitors, Dell executives are focusing on their efforts to streamline the company.

Instead of tough love or a tennis intervention, he's offering tea and sympathy and a big Czech man-breast for Murray to lay his weary head on.

This is the logic that gave the world fraud-infested carbon markets and dodgy carbon offsets instead of tough regulation of polluters – because, we were told, emission reductions needed to be "win-win" and "market-friendly".

Instead of tough sports stars or anything echoing Levitra's ad of a man hurling a football through a tire swing, the first set of 15-second "awareness" TV spots for Cialis features slow, jazzy guitar music on the soundtrack.

Instead of "tough love", the Obama White House showered the banks in cash and federal guarantees to make sure they could "earn their way back to health".

In many instances where feuding parents stayed together "for the sake of the children," clients have informed me that they wished their parents had gotten divorced instead of toughing it out for their sake.

"How many more people would have died if my mom had chosen to hide?" Instead of tougher gun laws, Ms. Lafferty said that Mr. Cruz told her he would like to see more prosecutions of criminals and less restrictive laws on involuntary commitment for the mentally ill.

And if you're truly looking to make a commitment to better health, you may end up seeking out more care instead of toughing out what feel like minor illnesses or injuries.

Instead of toughing it out — pretending to be the serious news reporter he wasn't — Mr. Murphy immediately asked for a transfer to the lifestyle department, where he wrote a story about yellow power ties for men that landed on the front page.

Instead, blocks of tough, fibrous cells associated with the xylem (water-conducting tissue), some lignification of the most common type of cells (parenchyma) in the stem, and silicification of the epidermis (outermost layer of cells) provide the structural rigidity of bamboo stems.