Instead of attempting to defend all of southern China, Li ordered what remained of the Nationalist armies to withdraw to Guangxi and Guangdong, hoping that he could concentrate all available defenses on this smaller, and more easily defensible, area.

Instead, they ordered that he be pilloried and whipped through both London and Bristol, branded on his forehead with the letter B ( for blasphemer ), bored through the tongue with a red-hot iron and imprisoned in solitary confinement with hard labour.

Instead, he ordered the national budget slashed by 30 percent, dismissed the Italian military advisers, and nationalized Italian-run Roman Catholic schools in the northern part of the country.

Instead, Pei ordered a hole cut through a nearby mountain, connected to a major road via a bridge suspended from ninety-six steel cables and supported by a post set into the mountain.

Instead, Santa Anna ordered the army inland to Bexar, the political center of Texas and the site of Cos's defeat ; Santa Anna wanted to restore the reputation of his family after his brother-in-law's embarrassing surrender.

Instead of attacking straight ahead, as ordered, one of his right wing brigades went astray, heading over to help the left wing.

Instead they moved on Baghdad, and on that day, Colonels Abdul Karim Qassim and Abdul Salam Arif seized control of the country and ordered the royal family to evacuate the palace.

Instead, Brown ordered an advance north, intending in turn to force the British to recall Tucker's column to protect Fort George.

Instead, or ordered the Dingyuan to fire its main guns before the Japanese were in range.

Instead, Mahathir ordered what Wain calls " the biggest crackdown on political dissent Malaysia had ever seen ".

) Instead of continuing the evacuation, von Schwerin opted to surrender the city to Allied forces ; however, on 13 September, before he could deliver a letter of capitulation he had written, von Schwerin was ordered to launch a counterattack against American forces penetrating southwest of Aachen, which he did, using elements of his panzergrenadier forces.

Instead, Chabrias ordered his men to stand at ease.

Instead he was ordered by the nuncio to add Hans Hermann Groër onto the terna, or list of candidates.

Instead, the architect was ordered to reuse the stone to build a steeple, which fundamentally altered the plan of the church.

Instead, the Government ordered the suspension of more than 300 teachers and threatened further sanctions.

Instead, he ordered his officers to concede, later saying to his brother-in-law, " As a Japanese soldier, I must obey my Emperor.

Instead, he moved through a celebration of Dionysus to declare he was in favour not of an ordered socialism but of an anarchic movement.

Instead, Liaden's practice contract marriages, where two individuals from different clans are ordered, or allowed, by their Delm's to create a progeny for one of the two clans.

Instead of marching on Wehlau, as was expected, he ordered his forces to cross the Pregel River in safety, near the village of Gross-Jägersdorf ( Abandoned in 1945 and away 5 km southwest from Mezhdurechye ( Norkitten ) and placed on municipality of Svoboda ( Jänischken, Jänichen between 1938 – 1945 ) in Chernyakhovsky District ).

Instead of killing his victims like he is ordered to, he merely uses Hades ( his orichalcum gun ) to stop them instead.

Instead, the writes are carefully ordered and flushed to disk at appropriate intervals so that the on-disk structure always remains consistent, no matter if the operation is interrupted.

Instead he ordered his ships to ensure control of their prizes and to return to Britain.

Instead of executing them as at first ordered by the Judicator Conclave, Executor Adun gave them abandoned Xel ' Naga ships and ordered them to never return.

Instead he resorts to a debunking device: Gylfi, king of Sweden before the Æsir, travels to Asgard and finds there a large hall ( Valhalla ) in Section 2.

Instead, the troops at Gibbethon chose Omri as king, and he led them to Tirzah where they trapped Zimri in the royal palace.

Instead, Hamlet discovers this and switches the letter for another, telling the king to kill Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

Instead, in November the two sides simply exchanged Robert and the king, and Stephen began re-establishing his authority.

Instead some of the English clergy and magnates nominated Edgar the Ætheling as king, but their support for Edgar was only lukewarm.

Instead he arranged an exchange of realms with his cousin, Megapenthes, and became king of Tiryns, Megapenthes taking Argos.

Instead of granting it, the king imprisoned him.

Instead of seeking a peaceful resolution to the conflict by paying homage to the French king, the way his father had done, Edward responded by laying claim to the French crown as the grandson of Philip IV.

Instead, he stayed with the Danish king Siegfried ( possibly Sigurd Ring ).

Instead of paying homage to the French king, as his ancestors had done, Edward claimed that he was the rightful King of France.

Instead, they accepted them but wrote " Rex " ( Latin for " king ") beside their names.

Instead, he passed the infant on to a nearby shepherd, and eventually Oedipus was adopted by Polybus, the king of Corinth, and raised as a prince.

Instead he spent his energies on the administration of his diocese, but remained on good terms with the king.

Instead she focused on the human characteristics: she believes Henry II was a brilliant king but a bad father.

Instead Ormrod suggests the focus should be on the motivation behind the use of sexuality in contemporary attacks on the king and Gaveston.

Instead, Miklós Horthy ruled as regent until 1944, in a kingdom without a king.

Instead the regime illegally promulgated a new constitution in November 1968, which retained the monarchy, but stripped it of its powers, and provided for a permanent regency until the king chose to accept the new order.

Instead of remaining near the person of the king, some of the counts palatine were sent to various parts of his empire to act as judges and governors, the districts ruled by them being called palatinates.

Instead it begins with Edward, Richard, Clarence, Warwick and Norfolk hacking down the door of parliament and Warwick proclaiming " This is the palace of the fearful king " ( 1. 1. 25 ).

Instead the play begins with Warwick proclaiming, " This is the palace of the fearful king ".

Instead Baldwin joined others in trying to convince the East Frankish king Arnulf to also take the west Frankish crown, but Arnulf declined.

Instead, he just wanted to help Wen to return to Jin to become king.

Instead of going to his estates, the nobleman now goes to the castle to dally with the queen, while the king commits adultery with his wife.

Instead, the apostle " Thaddaeus " is said to have come to Edessa, bearing the words of Jesus, by the virtues of which the king was miraculously healed.