Sentence examples for instead to bolster from inspiring English sources

He is throwing bones to his detractors: in November he backed down on a promise to do away with the Sedition Act a noxious colonial-era law on censorship that is currently being used to harry opposition figures and pledged instead to bolster it with new clauses that would criminalise some speech against Islam and other religions.

The three Republican defectors were Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, who won election last year by declaring that he thought Mr. Bush's tax cut was too big; James Jeffords of Vermont, who wants $180 billion of the tax cut set aside instead to bolster federal spending on special education programs; and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania.

With Australia pace bowler Peter Siddle brought in instead to bolster the bowling unit, Notts should be more competitive in four-day cricket and, with proven hitters at the top of the order, will always be competitive in the shorter formats.

While this was a problem that needed correcting, the actual motivation of the Statute was not to do so, but instead to bolster the finances of Henry VIII.

The argument should not be to stop writing about them and start writing about you, but instead to bolster the dance writers so we can cover everybody.

Mr Jiang instead tried to bolster his reformist credentials by promoting direct elections to village-level posts.For a while these elections entranced Western governments and lobby groups, which hoped they would lead to competitive elections higher up the political system.

His suggestion that he and his colleagues might instead try to bolster the insurance exchanges created under the ACA is at odds with Republican talking points that they are beyond repair.

If California hopes to prevent further extinctions of native species of endangered fish, the state should abandon efforts to take desperate measures to save individual species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and instead look to bolster entire aquatic ecosystems.

Instead, it needed to bolster revenue while keeping its capacity flat.

Instead, we chose to bolster the very forces that keep most rapes unreported and unprosecuted.

Instead of trying to bolster employment, we should encourage more departures and let a thousand golden parachutes bloom.