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 were ' community councils ' for smaller, rural settlements, which did not have a local government district to themselves.

Instead of a single solid conductor, litz wire consists of several smaller wire strands that carry the current.

Instead it is used in smaller contests such as the election of the presiding officer of an assembly ; one long-standing example of its use is in the United Kingdom, where local associations ( LCAs ) of the Conservative Party use EB to elect their prospective parliamentary candidates ( PPCs ).

Instead of issuing stamps in large sheets of 40, 100 or even 200 stamps, smaller sheetlets with 20 to 24 stamps are issued with a large selvedge area which may incorporate part of the stamp design or theme.

Instead of traditional means of bands reaching their audiences through large music labels, bands began recording, manufacturing albums and merchandise, booking their own tours, and creating opportunities for smaller bands to get wider recognition and gain cult status through repetitive low-cost DIY touring.

Instead, males choose the points at which several of the females ' home ranges overlap, creating a much smaller space, which can be properly defended against intruders while maximizing the chance of reproduction.

Instead, the smaller Left Party, a Social Democrat ally, picked up support with its program of increased public spending and opposition to Swedish membership in the European single currency.

Instead the bulk of these form the large superfamily Corvoidea and the smaller Meliphagoidea, and there are a number of small basal groups.

Instead of ablating the tissue, the laser cuts a portion of the prostate, which is then cut into smaller pieces and flushed with irrigation fluid.

Instead of the tower room, a smaller room at the north entrance, which was a children's museum, would house an Italian-style sarcophagus.

Instead, in 1973, the Park Service proposed to build a smaller glass pavilion for the bell at the north end of Independence Mall, between Arch and Race Streets.

Instead the units were let to smaller stores.

Instead of the full-size numbers centred on the front of the jersey, the team logos took precedence, with a smaller number over the right collarbone area.

Instead of delivering one burst of light, the units deliver several smaller bursts over a time interval as short as 1 / 125 of a second.

Instead, it is powered by smaller storms merging.

Instead, Ford pitched the smaller Ford Mondeo wagon as an alternative for buyers wanting the flexibility of a wagon.

Instead of having large halls which could be transformed in a wink into a dining room, ballroom, or audience chamber ( thanks to big, sturdy transportable furniture ), the trend now was towards a large number of smaller rooms in which smaller and more delicate specialized furniture stayed in permanence.

Instead, he used cavalry to skirmish with smaller contingents of tribesmen.

Instead, he or she would be forced to count a smaller representative part of the population, called a sample.

Instead of Dennis ' dog Ruff, there was a smaller terrier named Fremont, belonging to the Wilsons.

Instead of an incision being at least big enough for the surgeon to put his hands inside, it does not have to be bigger than 3 small holes for the robot's much smaller " hands " to get through.

Instead, she accepted a smaller, clothed role in the movie, which also starred FRIENDS's.

Instead of the usual straggling privet hedges and patches of bare dirt in most small-town squares, the building was hemmed in by a semitropical growth of camellias and azaleas and a smooth lawn the improbably bright-green shade of florist's grass.

Instead of deploying their margin advantage as a defence of mutuality, from 1980 building societies, in behaving like profit maximising banks, set mortgage rates with reference to market clearing levels.

Instead of looking into what was to come, he argued, America was " daydreaming of past while the rest of the world was building its future.

Instead the companies, mainly large industrial firms, were traditionally responsible for a broad range of social welfare functions — building and maintaining housing for their workforces, and managing health, recreational, educational, and similar facilities.

Instead of building their own nests, falcons appropriate old nests of other birds, but sometimes they lay their eggs on cliff ledges or in tree hollows.

Instead of analysing past floods and building protection sufficient to deal with those, the Delta Works commission pioneered a conceptual framework to use as norm for investment in flood defences.

Instead there was a wave of building or adapting Calvinist " temples ", though in the end none of these were to remain in use by the following year, and their layouts, which seem to have echoed early Swiss and Scottish Calvinist designs, are now largely unknown.

Instead, she busies herself by building the first permanent habitation of Mars, Underhill, using programmed automated robots.

Instead, in the center building of the Temple of Heaven, in a structure called the " Imperial Vault of Heaven ", a " spirit tablet " ( 神位, or shénwèi ) inscribed with the name of Shangdi is stored on the throne, Huangtian Shangdi ( 皇天上帝 ).

Instead Bienville Parish participated in the building of fortifications on the nearby Red River.

Instead theft by housebreaking covers theft where the security of the building is overcome.

Instead of setting throughput at a fixed air replacement rate, carbon dioxide sensors are used to control the rate dynamically, based on the emissions of actual building occupants.

Instead, a tower-like wooden construction was erected around the building site, in the midst of which the marble blocks were raised by a system of pulleys, ropes and capstans ; these were powered by a large workforce of men and possibly also draught animals, spread out on the ground.

Instead of the several buildings that housed the Cranbrook School for Boys, the Kingswood School for Girls was contained within one building which included all necessary features.

Instead he wanted a building on the emerging new city hall square, yet in the end he accepted.

Instead, the design of the existent building might belong to Trajan's architect Apollodorus of Damascus.

Instead of building a set of pyramids on a hill, like at Monte Albán, Mitla is a set of constructions built on the valley floor, and it lacks the wide and far vistas of Monte Alban.

Instead, Titan C proposed building the new stage at a larger 160 " diameter, meaning it would be an entirely new rocket.

Instead a new main building was planned, containing both the different subject areas as well as the administration.

Instead, a building may achieve its Brutalist quality through a rough, blocky appearance, and the expression of its structural materials, forms, and ( in some cases ) services on its exterior.

Instead of a flag, a target ( truck, airplane, or building ) can be captured.

Instead of base models, Chrysler was building cars with options like automatic transmissions, A / C, and upgraded wheels and tires.

Instead, the government spent most of the money establishing social infrastructures, founding POSCO, building Gyeongbu Expressway and the Soyang Dam with the technology transfer from Japanese companies.

Instead, these groups use words sucom Hall to identify their places of worship, and seldom, if ever, use the word ' church ' to describe any building in use by them for the purpose of such assembly.