Instead Gorbachev chose political liberalization during the years leading to the collapse of the USSR, while not implementing any significant economic reforms.

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

Instead of the impression of violence in the Delacroix work, Bartholdi wished to give the statue a peaceful appearance and chose a torch, representing progress, for the figure to hold.

The German princes refused to give the crown to his nephew, the duke of Swabia, for fear he would try to regain the imperial power held by Henry V. Instead, they chose Lothair III ( 1125 – 1137 ), who found himself embroiled in a long-running dispute with the Hohenstaufens, and who married into the Welfs.

Instead, the government chose to enact a jus sanguinis system, with the naturalization restrictions listed above.

Instead the IP's leader Geir Haarde chose a stronger but somewhat unstable coalition with the Social Democrats ( the Þingvellir government ).

Instead, Johnson chose Battling Jim Johnson, a mediocrity who, in 1910, had lost to Langford and had a draw and loss via KO to Sam McVey, the former coloured champ.

Instead of seeking a major battle, as his predecessors had done, Charles chose a strategy of attrition, spreading the fighting at every point possible.

Instead, Demeter chose to teach Triptolemus, the other son of Celeus ( though he was ascribed different parentages as well ), the art of agriculture and, from him, the rest of Greece learned to plant and reap crops.

Instead, Congress chose to permit all persons to sue to recover three times their actual damages every time they were injured in their business or property by an antitrust violation.

Instead of the drastic social changes he proposed in the past, his government chose a reformist line, passing new retirement, tax, labour and judicial legislation, and discussing university reform.

Instead they chose to study the amounts and uses of existing water withdrawals and to develop a reporting system to gather this information.

Instead, they chose to have the men stick to the use of their carbines and revolvers as primary and secondary weapons.

Instead Bryan chose Arthur Sewall, a conservative opponent of trade unions from Maine.

Instead however of sending the Artillery and baggage with General Count Walmoden's Column which was furthest from the Enemy, He chose to take them in the rear of His own Column.

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, Ohio chose to admit these corporations to conduct business in Ohio, a privilege that these corporations paid taxes to secure and maintain.

Instead, Mizoguchi chose for his source Mayama Chūshingura, a cerebral play dealing with the story.

Instead Premium TV chose to launch a channel with the working title of Classic Sport, offering classic BBC sports footage from the Grandstand archives, the channel never materialised.

Instead they chose to adopt various — in some cases academic — styles of realism in depicting American urban and rural scenes.

Instead, following the relaxation of the Penal Laws, the Roman Catholic Archbishop chose to locate his cathedra and residence in nearby Thurles.

Instead of using one of his previously designed typefaces like Univers, Frutiger chose to design a new one.

Instead, Carlton chose to commission the vast majority of its production content from third-parties ; not only had ownership changed, but so too had the nature of a large part of ITV's operation.

Instead, they chose Baldwin of Flanders.

" Instead of coaching his 1926 team against Carnegie Tech, Rockne traveled to Chicago for the Army – Navy Game to " write newspaper articles about it, as well as select an All-America football team.

Instead of the standard American system of primary elections to choose each party's candidate, followed by a general election contest between the winners of the primaries, the Louisiana primary allows voters to select any candidate, regardless of party affiliation.

Instead the Witenagemot, the assembly of the kingdom's leading notables, would convene after a king's death to select a successor.

Instead they proposed a rule based on a partially computable process which having read any N elements of the sequence, decides if it wants to select another element which has not been read yet.

Instead, the number and type of the arguments to the function call are also used to select among several function implementations.

Instead, Jake and Jan, as the two eldest contestants, were given the opportunity to select their own tribes ; this was the first time in series history that the tribes were not preselected.

Instead of having the player collect a power-up that is " instantly " activated, an alternative means of powering up a player is to allow them to select which power-ups they want to use.

Instead, the Tories essentially went dormant for the next two election cycles ; with a select group running the minimum number of candidates necessary to keep the party alive, while its assets were held in trust.

Instead of players each amassing armies to go head-to-head, Dungeons had players select a team of Hero characters, and enter a dungeon map filled with wandering monsters and treasure chests.

Instead of select, the Senate sometimes uses the term special committee ( as in the Special Committee on Aging ).

Instead, the driver may only ever select the next-lowest or next-highest gear ratio.

Instead, they serve only to select the solid-angle region from which usable range data are received.

Instead of having start and select buttons, it has the -, home, and + buttons from the Wii Remote.

Instead of a single playfield mode with 20 or 40 bits of resolution, the CTIA / ANTIC can display six text modes and eight graphics modes with various resolutions and color depths, allowing the programmer to select a mode with the minimum memory needs they required for their display.

Instead of extensive touring like in previous years, the band played only 15 shows in select cities during the entire year.

Instead of generating sample paths randomly, it is possible to systematically ( and in fact completely deterministically, despite the " quasi-random " in the name ) select points in a probability spaces so as to optimally " fill up " the space.

Instead, players must remove all blocks from the surface of the globe, given a finite number of sliding moves and drops of select pieces.

" Instead the player can select up to three characters in a team and give an amount or ratio ( up to four ) to each as desired.

Instead of the photographer picking a shutter speed to freeze or blur motion and choosing a lens aperture f-stop to control depth of field ( focus ), the A-1 has a microprocessor programmed to automatically select a compromise exposure based on light meter input.

Instead, they are recommended by the Judicial and Bar Council, and the President shall select from the recommendations.

Instead, Brewco Motorsports hired Keller to qualify and practice Greg Biffle's # 66 Ford for select races when Biffle was working on his Nextel Cup Series team.

Instead, a six-member commission appointed by the governor would select a department director.

Instead, one of the four output bits was used to select between the so-called A and B nodes.