Sentence examples for rather than bridge from inspiring English sources

But elections often exacerbate rather than bridge divisions.

Elections proceeded whether Iraq was ready or not, sometimes helping exacerbate divisions rather than bridge them.

Way back when rock 'n' roll was countercultural — before the members of the Rolling Stones were anywhere close to 50 years old, much less celebrating their 50th anniversary together — the genre tended to emphasize rather than bridge generational divides.

I believe that going forward, there is opportunity to create tools that blend (rather than bridge) design and implementation.

And so the ideas of building fences rather than bridges have resurfaced.

But he said the latest discussions seemed to be rooted in political process rather than bridging policy differences.

But when it comes to immigration, much of the past 40 years has been spent building walls rather than bridges.

Even the bridges linking the island to the right and left banks of Paris will, by tomorrow night, become bridges of eyes, rather than bridges of sighs.

Here the routine seems tired and insular, emphasizing the distance between the audience and the people on screen rather than bridging it.

Attempts to use the space of the Albert Hall occasionally created a sense of distance, rather than bridging the gap between performers and audience.

The Coalition Provisional Authority and the governing council together institutionalised sectarianism: "The emphasis had been on identifying communal representatives rather than bridging communal divides".