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When ambassadors from other countries arrive, dressed in ostentatious gold jewels and badges, the Utopians mistake them for menial servants, paying homage instead to the most modestly dressed of their party.
* Just two years after the Ming Dynasty court of China allowed landowners paying the grain tax to pay their tax in silver instead, the Ming court now decides to close all silver mines and to ban all private silver mining in Zhejiang and Fujian provinces.
In July 2009, the chairman of the Sevastopol city council, Valeriy Saratov ( Party of Regions ) stated that Ukraine should increase the amount of compensation it is paying to the city of Sevastopol for hosting the foreign Russian Black Sea Fleet, instead of requesting such obligations from the Russian government and the Russian Ministry of Defense in particular.
' Medibank Mark II ' was launched on 1 October 1976 and included a 2. 5 per cent levy on income, with the option of taking out private health insurance instead of paying the levy.
CTC voted to end their involvement with the 1201, leaving the design's intellectual property to Intel instead of paying the $ 50, 000 contract.
He introduced the Truck Act which stopped the practice of employers paying workmen in goods instead of money, or forcing them to purchase goods from shops owned by the employers.
" After the success of his " Papa's Got a Brand New Bag " in late 1965, James Brown, believing he deserved to be crowned " King of Soul ", hired Burke to perform for one night in Chicago, but ended up paying not to perform but rather to watch him perform instead, expecting Burke also to surrender his crown and title to him.
This consumed around £ 270 a week in wages and the project rapidly fell into arrears, forcing officials to issue leather tokens instead of paying the workforce with normal coinage.
On one hand, traders who do NOT wish to queue their order, instead paying the market price, pay the spreads ( costs ).
Once the camel-puller got rich enough to own close to a full file of 18 camels, he could join the caravan not as an employee but as a kind of a partner — now instead of earning wages he would be paying money ( around 20 taels per round-trip in 1926 ) to the owner of ( the rest of ) the caravan for the benefit of joining the caravan, sharing in the food, etc.
In the Iliad, Agamemnon promises Achilles that he can take a bride without paying the bride-price ( Greek hednon ), instead receiving a dowry ( pherne ).
There are two types of instruments in the fixed income market that pay the interest at maturity, instead of paying it as coupons.
In response, instead of returning the players to Livingstone, or even paying Livingstone, the Arena Company returned their temporary franchise to the NHL and immediately formed a new club, the Toronto Arena Hockey Club, popularly known as the Toronto Arenas, with auditor Hubert Vearncombe as president.
This DRM scheme, which was intended to hinder the efforts of pirates to illegally use and distribute EA software, instead mainly affected paying customers, as the game itself was pirated well before release.
In 1986, seven former students filed a lawsuit stating that " instead of flying they only learned to hop " after paying thousands of dollars for the TM-Sidhi course which claimed to reverse aging, enable clairvoyance and allow one to levitate.
Opponents also proposed a $ 10 auto tax and $ 25 truck tax to pay for the cost of Metro expressways instead of paying the costs from property taxes and wanted Metro to finish the Gardiner and Don Valley expressways before starting any others.
Previously, he had insisted on paying the taxes of his Caspian region directly to al-Mu ' tasim's agent instead of to Abdallah ibn Tahir's.
In December 2011, the non-partisan organization Public Campaign criticized Corning for spending $ 2. 81 million on lobbying and not paying any taxes during 2008 – 2010, instead getting $ 4 million in tax rebates, despite making a profit of $ 1. 98 billion and having a total compensation for the top 5 executives between $ 35 and $ 45 million per year.
This was confirmed in a hearing during 1279 which concluded that the miners of the area were distinct from the local population thus paying their dues to the English crown instead of Scotland.
Unlike most role-playing games, equipment cannot be bought pre-crafted: instead, players must buy or find " designs " ( blueprints for a piece of equipment ) and the necessary components before paying for it to be crafted at a blacksmith or tailor ( depending on whether the equipment is a weapon / piece of armour or an accessory ).
Although the diary explicitly notes that Pepys was paying him handsomely, it is probable that Sympson was working for Pepys instead of working on the interiors of warships.
The Triad leader Hay Wong Hoi ( Shing Fui-On ) double crosses Ah Jong, and instead of paying him, sends a group of hitmen to kill him.
This equated to a bonus, which Jobs kept secret from Wozniak, instead only paying him $ 375.
White Day is also observed in South Korea with the men paying back women who have given them chocolate on Valentine's Day with usually candy instead of chocolate, with an additional later Black Day observed for those sharing singleness.

instead and up
So instead I come up ''.
`` Blessed Saint Nicholas, I thank thee for getting me out of that mess and sending me up instead of down when I was bewildered.
Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;
For a time, urging Breasted to give up his public relations work and take up writing instead, he hoped to persuade him to become his assistant in research for the labor novel ; ;
It had a gourmet's corner ( instead of a kitchen ), a breakfast room, a luncheon room, a dining room, a sitting room, a room for standing up, a party room, dressing rooms for everybody, even a room for mud.
While the city council suggested that the Legislative Council might perform the review, Mr. Notte said that instead he will take up the matter with Atty. Gen. J. Joseph Nugent to get `` the benefit of his views ''.
When he at last did go to his room, he couldn't sleep and instead paced up and down before his little image of Acala, thinking first of Charlotte's tale of the man at Ryusenji, then of his biwa and the invisible Pacific waters.
In later Pahlavi papyri, up to half of the remaining graphic distinctions of these twelve letters were lost, and the script could no longer be read as a sequence of letters at all, but instead each word had to be learned as a whole — that is, they had become logograms as in Egyptian Demotic.
While at the time the process was openly referred to as colonization (" takushoku " 拓殖 ), the notion was later reframed by Japanese elites to the currently common usage " kaitaku "( 開拓 ), which instead conveys a sense of opening up or reclamation of the Ainu lands.
Amasis worrying that his daughter would be a concubine to the Persian king refused to give up his offspring ; Amasis also was not willing to take on the Persian empire so he concocted a trickery in which he forced the daughter of the ex-pharaoh Apries, whom Herodotus explicitly confirms to have been killed by Amasis, to go to Persia instead of his own offspring.
This coalition fell apart at the end of 1916, when the Conservatives withdrew their support from Asquith and gave it to Lloyd George instead, who became Prime Minister at the head of a coalition government largely made up of Conservatives.
This title is not related to the individuals military rank ( if any ), but instead is the title of the senior individual responsible for the overall operation of the merchant ships and naval auxiliary ships that make up the convoy.
Homer Wells grows up in an orphanage where he spends his childhood " being of use " as a medical assistant to the director, Dr. Wilbur Larch, whose history is told in flashbacks: After a traumatic misadventure with a prostitute as a young man, Wilbur turns his back on sex and love, choosing instead to help women with unwanted pregnancies give birth and then keeping the babies in an orphanage.
However, development of the workstation was well ahead of the PRISM, and the engineers proposed that they release the machines using the MIPS R2000 processor instead, moving its release date up considerably.
The Afghan leader did not follow up this triumph by retaking Peshawar, however, but instead contacted Lord Auckland, the new British governor general in British India, for help in dealing with the Sikhs.
This can often happen when a flanker or slot receiver, who is supposed to line up behind the line of scrimmage, instead lines up on the line of scrimmage between the offensive line and a split end.
In 1850 several shiploads of Indians, Malays and Chinese were brought out to work the plantations but, instead, they set up shops in Cayenne and other settlements.
The FDP is opposed to a tightening of the penal code, and instead supports for the recruitment of more police officers, judges, and prosecutors to improve security and speed up trials.
Both failed by allowing the political crisis to end up in the bloody Civil War and a comprehensive terror, instead of reaching a compromise to accomplish a peaceful political settlement.
General Howe in New York took his army south to Philadelphia instead of going up the Hudson River to join with Burgoyne near Albany.
They also have a less expensive trial division phase, taking hours instead of weeks, used to rapidly eliminate Mersenne numbers with small factors, which make up a large proportion of candidates.
As he grew up, his relatives " thought to have made me a priest " but he was instead apprenticed to a local shoemaker and grazier, George Gee of Mancetter.
The joke is that Chase was more interested in fixing up cars while Goober often offered to go out with the girls instead ... only for the women to ignore his requests and look disgusted.

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