This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.

I would have foregone my romantic chances rather than leave a friend sweltering and dusty and -- Well, at least I wouldn't have shouted back a taunt.

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

The content is not the same, however: rather than individual security, it is the security and continuing existence of an `` ideological group '' -- those in the `` free world '' -- that is basic.

Since attack serves to stimulate interest in broadcasts, I added to my opening statement a sentence in which I claimed that German youth seemed to lack the enthusiasm which is a necessary ingredient of anger, and might be classified as uninterested and bored rather than angry.

Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.

John Adams took to heart the advice given him by his legal mentor, Jeremiah Gridley, to `` pursue the study of the law, rather than the gain of it ''.

But in this approach it is the artist's ultimate insight, rather than his immediate impressions, that gives form to the work.

An order can be chanced rather than chosen, and this approach produces an experience that is `` free and discovered rather than bound and remembered ''.

Repeated efforts -- beginning with the Missouri Compromise of 1821 -- were made by such master moderates as Clay and Douglas to resolve the difference peacefully by compromise, rather than clear thought and timely action.

The present issue in Atlantica -- whether to transform an alliance of sovereign nations into a federal union of sovereign citizens -- resembles the American one of 1787-89 rather than the one that was resolved by Civil War.

The champions of the Union maintained that the Constitution had formed, fundamentally, the united people of America, that it was a compact among sovereign citizens rather than states, and that therefore the states had no right to secede, though the citizens could.

What Lincoln could not concede was that the states rather than the people were sovereign in the Union.

This strange person quarrels with a cyclist because the latter is using the path rather than the highroad.

I have chosen to use the word `` mimesis '' in its Christian rather than its classic implications and to discover in the concrete forms of both art and myth powers of theological expression which, as in the Christian mind, are the direct consequence of involvement in historical experience, which are not reserved, as in the Greek mind, only to moments of theoretical reflection.

In the first instance, `` mimesis '' is here used to mean the recalling of experience in terms of vivid images rather than in terms of abstract ideas or conventional designations.

At first glance, this hero seems to be more rather than less of an individualist than any of his predecessors.

With troops dispersed on fields of battle rather than on the parade ground, it may seem that a certain amount of monitoring is automatically enforced by the lines of communication.

And the basic character of that liberalism has been spiritual rather than economic.

If we were creating a wholly new society, we could insist that our social, political, economic and philosophic institutions foster rather than hamper man ; ;

We are tempted to blame others for our problems rather than look them straight in the face and realize they are of our own making and possible of solution only by ourselves with the help of desperately needed, enlightened, competent leaders.

* In the Hainish Cycle, while interaction with cultures is rather free, the Planet of Exile mentions the Law of Cultural Embargo, which states: No Religion or Congruence shall be disseminated, no technique or theory shall be taught, no cultural set or pattern shall be exported, nor shall para-verbal speech be used with any non-Communicant high-intelligence lifeform, or any Colonial Planet, until it be judged by the Area Council with the consent or the Plenum that such a planet be ready for Control or for Membership

The Colonial Missionary Society was created in 1836, and directed its efforts towards promoting Congregationalist forms of Christianity among " British or other European settlers " rather than indigenous peoples.

Lone Starr's costume is intentionally misplaced, resembling a Colonial Warrior from Battlestar Galactica and Ford's Indiana Jones costume ( he is seen wearing a cowboy hat in his first scene, which is set aside and not seen for the remainder of the film ) rather than that of Han Solo or Luke Skywalker.

The latest example, built in 1945 by Colonel Zack L. Whitaker as Commandant housing, lies east of the campus, and was influenced by the then popular Cape Cod variation of the Colonial Revival style which had small side porches rather than a full-facade shed roof porch.

Identified by the German authorities as a strategically important port, Qingdao was administered by the Imperial Department of the Navy ( Reichsmarineamt ) rather than the Imperial Colonial Office ( Reichskolonialamt ).

Many of the men provided by the American colonists in both wars were frontiersmen serving in the militia — the Continental Army itself during the latter conflict was largely made up of such irregular troops — participating in skirmishing tactics by firing from cover rather than the open field engagements of the day, largely influenced by Colonial experiences fighting natives.

In California and the American Southwest, which had been under Spanish and not English colonial rule, revival architecture looked back to Spanish, rather than Georgian prototypes, taking the form of both Mission Revival Style architecture and Spanish Colonial Revival Style architecture.

In a speech in December 1942, Hatta said that Indonesia had been freed from the Dutch Colonial Government, but if they were freed only to be colonized by another power, he would rather see Indonesia drown to the bottom of the ocean.

Colonial regimes usually have a threshold beyond which they would prefer to go home rather than to fight the war.

Colonial leaders came to believe that they, rather than Parliament, were better suited to legislate for the colonies.

A thirty year journey would mean that the Colonial Fleet could not have possibly reached Earth until the turn of the 21st Century rather than in 1980.

Riding the rail ( also called running out of town on a rail ) was a punishment in Colonial America in which a man ( rarely a woman ) was made to straddle a fence rail ( usually the triangular split-rail rather than the modern machine-milled ) held on the shoulders of at least two men, with other men on either side to keep him upright.

In 1831, the Colonial Office published what became known as the Ripon Regulations, which declared that crown land in Australia would from 1832 onwards be sold rather than granted.

Shiell senior is also said to have requested the title of King from Queen Victoria, and as legend has it, it was granted to him, by the British Colonial Office rather than by Victoria herself, provided there was no revolt against colonial power.

Dominant stress is of course more than extended duration, and normally centers on syllables that would have primary stress or phrase stress if the words or longer units they are parts of were spoken alone: a dominant stress given to glorify would normally center on its first syllable rather than its last.

The concept that matter is composed of discrete units and cannot be divided into arbitrarily tiny quantities has been around for millennia, but these ideas were founded in abstract, philosophical reasoning rather than experimentation and empirical observation.

A pint of such lager ( e. g., 568 ml at 5. 2 %) contains almost 3 units of alcohol, rather than the oft-quoted 2 units.

The binomial distribution assumes a result of 1 unit for a win, and 0 units for a loss, rather than-1 units for a loss, which doubles the range of possible outcomes.

Such units were not used as cavalry but rather as mounted infantry.

Computer music systems and approaches are now ubiquitous, and so firmly embedded in the process of creating music that we hardly give them a second thought: computer-based synthesizers, digital mixers, and effects units have become so commonplace that use of digital rather than analog technology to create and record music is the norm, rather than the exception.

In measurements of purely mechanical systems ( involving units of length, mass, force, energy, pressure, and so on ), the differences between CGS and SI are straightforward and rather trivial ; the unit-conversion factors are all powers of 10 arising from the relations and.

This helps support distributism's argument that smaller units, families if possible, ought to be in control of the means of production, rather than the large units typical of modern economies.

They are generally seen as tied to the " young guard " of Fatah politics, organizing young members on the street level, but it is not clear that they form a faction in themselves inside Fatah politics ; rather, different Brigades units may be tied to different Fatah factional leaders.

Kekulé's idea of assigning certain atoms to certain positions within the molecule, and schematically connecting them using what he called their " Verwandtschaftseinheiten " (" affinity units ", now called " valences " or " bonds "), was based largely on evidence from chemical reactions, rather than on instrumental methods that could peer directly into the molecule, such as X-ray crystallography.

From this perspective, the speed of light is only accidentally a property of light, and is rather a property of spacetime, a conversion factor between conventional time units ( such as seconds ) and length units ( such as meters ).

; Energy efficiency: Multiple units are more energy efficient than locomotive-hauled trains and more nimble, especially on grades, as much more of the train's weight ( sometimes all of it ) is placed on driven wheels, rather than suffer the dead weight of unpowered coaches.

Learning objects offer a new conceptualization of the learning process: rather than the traditional " several hour chunk ", they provide smaller, self-contained, re-usable units of learning.

For example, sell in unit blocks rather than individual units.

Infantry units equipped with IFVs rather than lighter vehicles are commonly designated as " heavy ", indicating more combat power but also more costly long-range transportation requirements.

Neural networks are also similar to biological neural networks that functions are performed collectively and in parallel by the units, rather than there being a clear delineation of subtasks to which various units are assigned.

In the classical languages, on the other hand, while the metrical units are similar, vowel length rather than stresses define the meter.

In the case of free verse, rhythm is often organized based on looser units of cadence rather than a regular meter.

Some versions of the Pickelhaube worn by German artillery units employed a ball-shaped finial rather than the pointed spike.