Instead, providence is a power that emanates from the heavens to the sublunar region, and is responsible for the generation and destruction of earthly things, without any direct involvement in the lives of individuals.

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

Instead, he stated that what gods there may be, do not concern themselves with us, and thus would not seek to punish us either in this or any other life.

Instead of all nodes being considered equal, nodes entering into the network were kept at the ' edge ' of the network as a leaf, not responsible for any routing, and nodes which were capable of routing messages were promoted to ultrapeers, which would accept leaf connections and route searches and network maintenance messages.

Instead they quickly spend any money they receive, which rapidly increases the velocity of money flow, which in turn causes further acceleration in prices.

Instead of suggesting that the mechanical properties of objects changed with their constant-velocity motion through an undetectable aether, Einstein proposed to deduce the characteristics that any successful theory must possess in order to be consistent with the most basic and firmly established principles, independent of the existence of a hypothetical aether.

Instead, the Renaissance motet is a polyphonic musical setting, sometimes in imitative counterpoint, for chorus, of a Latin text, usually sacred, not specifically connected to the liturgy of a given day, and therefore suitable for use in any service.

Instead, the isotope must be prepared first, then afterward, the chemistry to prepare any organic radiotracer ( such as FDG ) accomplished very quickly, in the short time before the isotope decays.

Instead, it indicates that the archives are the Pope's personal property, not belonging to those of any particular department of the Roman Curia or the Holy See.

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, it is used as a base for almost any food which needs a lot of tomato flavor, including versions of many of the sauces described on this page.

Instead, what would be required to avoid paradoxes is that unlike any known particle, tachyons do not interact in any way and can never be detected or observed, because otherwise a tachyon beam could be modulated and used to create an anti-telephone or a " logically pernicious self-inhibitor ".

Instead, it simply held "... we need go no further than to state that we perceive nothing in the overtime and minimum-wage requirements of the FLSA ... that is destructive of state sovereignty or violative of any constitutional provision.

Instead, he pursues active naval warfare and reduces any danger from the island of Aegina by replacing its native population with Athenians.

Instead of reading any sized vector several times as in the STAR, the Cray-1 would have to read only a portion of the vector at a time, but it could then run several operations on that data prior to writing the results back to memory.

Instead of turning on the receive audio for any signal, the audio turns on only in the presence of the correct selective calling code.

Instead, they hold that moral claims are derived either from an unsupported belief that there are objective moral facts ( error theory, a form of moral nihilism ); the speakers ' sentiments ( emotivism, a form of moral relativism ); or any one of the norms prevalent in society ( ethical subjectivism, another form of moral relativism ).

Instead, where possible, definitions of the base units were developed so that any laboratory equipped with proper instruments would be able to construct their own copies of the standard.

Instead, the matter would be directly determined by a meeting of the AFL Commission, and any punishment Hird would receive would result directly from that meeting.

Instead, Bentham is calling upon legislators to measure the pleasures and pains associated with any legislation and to form laws in order to create the greatest good for the greatest number.

Instead of complying, he resigned his position as superintendent and returned to the North, declaring to the governor of Louisiana, " On no earthly account will I do any act or think any thought hostile ... to the ... United States.

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 it was claimed Raeder was opposed to war with the United States and had always worked to protect neurtal shipping during the war with the committee having Raeder say: " We had to consider neutrals to avoid any possible unfortunate incidents " at sea.

Instead, Rufinus attempted to negotiate with Alaric in person, which only aroused suspicions in Constantinople that Rufinius was in league with the Goths.

Instead, according to Buddhist thought, a wise person adopts a middle way without holding conventions to be ultimate or ignoring them when they are fruitful.

Instead, the phrase should be taken to say that the person is ( 1 ) defined only insofar as he or she acts and ( 2 ) that he or she is responsible for his or her actions.

Instead, John summoned the two prelates to travel with him to Rome to discuss the matter in person before Honorius.

Instead, they relied on the sacrosanctity of their person to obstruct.

Instead, as a compromise, the Spartans ( an insignificant naval power ), in the person of Eurybiades were to command the naval forces.

Instead, the Roth test for obscenity was " whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest.

Instead it might sometimes seem so, because mere cleverness can sometimes recite words which might make them sound wise, like an actor or a drunk person reciting poetry.

Instead of one person telling another person something good is happening, it's one person telling millions !".

Instead, a person in the crowded row moves into the empty seat the first person left behind.

Instead, the narcissist emphasizes his virtues in the presence of others, just to try to convince himself that he is a valuable person and to try to stop feeling ashamed for his faults ; unfortunately such ' people with unrealistically inflated self-views, which may be especially unstable and highly vulnerable to negative information ... tend to have poor social skills '.

Instead, under the Constitution, the next person of age in the line of succession would immediately become the Regent.

Instead of each family member going up to answer a question, only one person on each team was required and the two contestants participated in all three questions.

" Instead, Laborde advocates a view of 120 Days of Sodom that stresses the signifying, as opposed to the symbolizing, function of Sadian language and person.

Instead of everyone falling the same standard distance, the person's height and weight were used to determine how much slack would be provided in the rope so that the distance dropped would be enough to ensure that the neck was broken, but not so much that the person was decapitated.

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, an ecclesiastical court could summon and interrogate witnesses of its own initiative, and if the ( possibly secret ) testimony of those witnesses accused a person of a crime, that person could then be summoned and tried.

Instead of seeing just one point, a person with keratoconus sees many images of the point, spread out in a chaotic pattern.

Instead, it is about a way of being that would cause the person exhibiting the virtue to make a certain " virtuous " choice consistently in each situation.

Instead, he claims, a person has a good will when he ' acts out of respect for the moral law '.

Instead, the " reasonable person " is a composite of a relevant community's judgment as to how a typical member of said community should behave in situations that might pose a threat of harm ( through action or inaction ) to the public.