Sentence examples for rather than reinforcing from inspiring English sources

It makes an atmospheric difference, though, to boost incomes by severing the ties between the individual and the public purse, rather than reinforcing them.

It's an inflationary proposal, to be sure, but in a deflationary environment, has the unique virtue of counteracting current troubles rather than reinforcing them.

Yet that still raises the question of why the thousands of U.S. Marines available in southern Afghanistan are concentrated largely to the west of Kandahar, rather than reinforcing struggling Canadian troops in the province itself.

Unfortunately, the fiction the narrator invents is a tale of love and war so fantastically and at the same time conventionally romantic that it strains the modern reader's patience, rather than reinforcing imaginative conviction.

Cohen, who was visibly stunned by the comment, said that the film had tried to find "a delicate balance" and was satirising stereotypes rather than reinforcing them, adding that it was screen tested during Ferguson.

But at least I can think about how to approach it, and what language to use in addressing this misconception about opera — which has historically been a subversive medium, fighting the established social order rather than reinforcing it.

The whole point is to change perceptions rather than reinforce them.

Indeed you've made it your mission to burst the bubble, rather than reinforce it".

Unions undermine rather than reinforce the central ideas of the university: independent scholarship and teaching.

They force people to stay at home rather than reinforce order.

Job insecurity and individualised contracts tend to undermine rather than reinforce team spirit.