Sentence examples for troubles rather than from inspiring English sources

Warsi sought to focus on Labour's troubles rather than the party's own dramatic drop in votes.

Even in the final year of Mr. Reagan's presidency, in July 1988, 59 percent of people said the future would be "bogged down" by troubles rather than brighter.

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.

Critics complained that the state's political leaders merely delayed Minnesota's financial troubles rather than making hard, lasting decisions about whether to raise taxes or to cut services.

My guess, therefore, is that the narrowing of the polls is Ken gaining from the rising national tide of Labour support and the coalition government's troubles, rather than any improvement in the public's perception of him personally.

But until Turkey radically realigns its policies around the pursuit of peace with its own Kurds, it will continue to add to the region's troubles rather than help to contain them.

It looked like trouble rather than double.

The directors should have defused the trouble rather than explode it publicly.

The chances of her chest pain being cardiac trouble, rather than indigestion or some other minor problem, seemed slight.

He fell in with a group of troublemakers, finding it easier to join the trouble rather than risk another real friendship.

There is as well a submerged bitterness that she remembers occasionally surfacing in her grandparents' lives, a sexual current that is troubled rather than steady.