Instead of running on wires as in the Chinese and Japanese models, the beads of Roman model run in grooves, presumably making arithmetic calculations much slower.

Instead of blacks, slave traders looked for others sources of cheap labour, such as Chinese colonists and Indians from Yucatán.

Instead of seeking a grand pattern of history, post-modern interpretations tend to focus on a small subset of Chinese history.

Instead, early 21st century papers on Chinese history tend to be empirical studies of a small part of China which aim to reach a deep understanding of the socio-economics, political dynamics, or cultural dynamics of a small region such as a province or a village with little effort made to create a master narrative which would be generalizable to all of China.

Instead of true cinnamon, " Chinese cinnamon " ( also known as rougui, the ground bark of the cassia tree, a close relative of true cinnamon which is often sold as cinnamon ), may be used.

Instead of importing Chinese labor, the United States imports goods that were produced with Chinese labor.

Instead of frequently saying " I love you " as in some Western societies, the Chinese are more likely to express feelings of affection in a more casual way.

Instead Mao directed the CPC forces to concentrate on absorbing, and eliminating if necessary, Chinese militia behind enemy lines.

Instead, it follows traditional Chinese architecture.

Instead, about 90 % of Chinese characters are compounds of a determinative ( called a ' radical '), which may not exist independently, and a phonetic complement indicates the approximant pronunciation of the morpheme.

Instead, since all of the primers are networked in some way, the Chinese girls are able to interact, forming the " mouse army ".

Instead, mainland Chinese residents visiting Taiwan and other territory under ROC jurisdiction must use a mainland China resident pass issued by the ROC authorities.

Instead, they taught both modern, western education such as science, along with traditional Confucian literature and Classical Chinese languages with Islamic education and Arabic in their schools.

Instead, Wolfowitz advocated a unilateralist policy, claiming that the U. S. did not need China ’ s assistance but that the Chinese needed the U. S. to protect them against the far-more-likely prospect of a Soviet invasion of the Chinese mainland.

Instead Taiwan would become the last redoubt and home of the Chinese Nationalist government, a role it fulfills to this day.

Instead, deriving from the name of its capital city, the ROC government finally formulated the name “ Chinese Taipei ,” instead of accepting the offer of “ Taiwan ,” because “ Chinese Taipei ” signified an uncertain boundary that could exceed the ROC ’ s actual territory of control of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu, whenever the ROC government wished to assert it.

Instead, it follows traditional Chinese architecture.

Instead, they had a multi-tiered roof ( of Javanese or even Chinese influence ) comparable with the multi-level pagodas of neighbouring Bali.

Instead, the investor uses the Chinese partner's business license, under a contractual arrangement.

Instead, the prevailing view is that the Thirty-Six Stratagems may have originated in both written and oral history, with many different versions compiled by different authors throughout Chinese history.

Instead of running on wires as in the Chinese and Japanese models, the beads of Roman model run in grooves, presumably making arithmetic calculations much slower.

Instead, the audience can sit back at ease and, from the perspective of an enlightened time which no longer believes in such things, enjoy the dead seriousness with which the characters in the play take the witches and devils which are under discussion.

Instead, lower bidding characters are ranked in ascending order according to how much they have bid, the characters becoming progressively weaker in that attribute as they pay less for it.

Instead of using Vermin's tired characters, Abner inventively peopled the strip with hillbillies.

Instead The Far Side used a wide variety of characters including humans, monsters, aliens, chickens, cows, worms, amoebas and more.

Instead, the game and rules focused on parties of characters exploring the Ringworld itself, and, despite its vast size ( with a surface area larger than that of all of Known Space's inhabited planets put together ), many who bought the game felt limited by this one world setting.

Instead of making the action seem far off, the filmmakers put the audience in the room with their characters.

Instead, the series introduced two new characters in the ninth season, Ben Browder as Cameron Mitchell, the new SG-1 team leader, and Beau Bridges as Hank Landry, the new leader of Stargate Command.

Instead of winning by depleting an opponent's life bar, Smash Bros players seek to knock opposing characters off the stage.

Instead of a single character with outfits that changed for different applications, toy lines included teams of characters with special functions.

" Instead of the grand music and themes of opera, the work uses familiar tunes and characters that were ordinary people.

Instead they studied the movement of the human characters and drew free-hand.

Instead of wearing masks the actors assumed their characters ' personality.

Instead of the sequence A B C D E F universally used today, the digits ten to fifteen were represented by the letters K S N J F L ( King Sized Numbers Just for Laughs ), corresponding to the teleprinter characters on 5-track paper tape.

Instead, they created studios that would later produce such characters.

Instead, he began to focus on groups of figures and odd imaginary characters.

Instead, the game was promoted as a " Dream Match " game that allowed players to choose most of the characters available from the previous titles, including ones that were supposedly dead.

Instead of the traditional variety mix of sketches, guest stars and musical interludes, the show's humour derived from characters and situations developed in a half-hour storyline.

Instead the Office team created their own characters include one dubbed " Clippit " or " Clippy ".

Instead of using Vermin's tired characters, Abner had inventively peopled the strip with hillbillies.

Instead of participating in the entire set of their kingdoms ' events, the characters appear only in certain battles that they had fought in, as according to the novel or factual history.

Instead, the game can be played with an AI-controlled partner, and players may exchange the data of their own characters to fight alongside each other.

" Instead of actual dialogue, the characters feature " mumbling " voices.