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Instead and by
Instead of that he was engulfed by bedlam.
Instead we have stood idly by, watched our commuter railroad service decline, and have failed to offer a helping hand.
Instead of closing the house in first ( as most builders do ) you can now cut your costs by not closing it in until you have to ( see p 121 ).
Instead of being depressed by this news, Mr. Crombie was actually relieved.
Instead of isolating the literal flatness by specifying and circumscribing it, the pasted paper or cloth releases and spreads it, and the artist seems to have nothing left but this undepicted flatness with which to finish as well as start his picture.
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 her old confidence in the simplest, purest, most moving musical expression, Miss Schwarzkopf is letting herself be tempted by the classic sin of artistic pride -- that subtle vanity that sometimes misleads a great artist into thinking that he or she can somehow better the music by bringing to it something extra, some personal dramatic touch imposed from the outside.
Instead of having a pulp cavity, each tooth has a cluster of thin, upright, parallel tubes of vasodentin ( a modified form of dentine ), with individual pulp canals, held together by cementum.
Instead, the element is prepared, in milligram amounts, by the neutron irradiation of < sup > 226 </ sup > in a nuclear reactor.
Instead, Albert's secularization of the Prussian territories of the Order eventually led to the inheritance of the Duchy of Prussia by the Margraviate of Brandenburg.
Instead, all services had names which, being chosen by humans, could be expected to be meaningful to users, and also could be sufficiently long enough to minimize the chance of conflicts.
Instead the two court owned theaters would be reopened under new management, and partly subsidized by the Imperial Court, as a new National Theater.
Instead, it is negotiated by or configured at the endpoints on a per-virtual-connection basis.
Instead of transferring the weight of the bridge and traffic loads into thrust forces into the abutments, the ends of the arches are restrained by tension in the bottom chord of the structure.
Instead, the philosopher encounters a problem :" Now, if the ' to be ' of a thing could be conceived apart from that which exists, it should be represented in our mind by some note distinct from the concept of the thing itself ....
Instead, the phrase appears to have originated in the early 19th century United States ( particularly in the sense " pull oneself over a fence by one's bootstraps "), to mean an absurdly impossible action, an adynaton.
Instead of a tightly unified storyline, Gerald Mast has seen Chaplin's films as consisting of sketches tied together by the same theme and setting.
Instead, the British Parliament and the Government-chiefly in the office of Prime Minister-exercise their powers under ' Royal ( or Crown ) Prerogative ': on behalf of the Monarch and through powers still formally possessed by the Monarch.
Instead of focusing merely on the individual objects ( e. g., groups ) possessing a given structure, category theory emphasizes the morphisms – the structure-preserving mappings – between these objects ; by studying these morphisms, we are able to learn more about the structure of the objects.
Instead, murder is treated as a civil crime and is covered by the law of retaliation, whereby the relatives of the victim decide whether the offender is punished with death by the authorities or made to pay diyah as compensation.
Instead they act either by deactivating catalysts, or by removing reaction intermediates such as free radicals.
Instead, they developed a daily and weekly service of readings from the Torah, and possibly also the Prophets, followed by commentary.

Instead and presenting
Instead of just presenting songs, we wanted to combine fashion, Broadway, and performance art.
Instead, morality opposes life by presenting well – being as a dangerous temptation.
Instead of presenting the culturally dominant view of a subject, idea, history, or person, the anti-bias curriculum presents all possible sides.
Instead of presenting a new poem, Poe read " Al Aaraaf ".
Instead, shortly after Justin Webb joined the Today Programme in August 2009, Stourton moved from presenting duties to reporting on foreign stories.
Instead of civic coercion, he argued, presenting moral opinions in the context of public discourse enabled Americans to both deepen their moral commitments and safeguard the ' genius ' of American freedoms.
Instead of presenting itself as a Tibetan tradition, James Belither has said that the NKT-IKBU is " a Mahayana Buddhist tradition with historical connections with Tibet ", saying it wishes " to present Dharma in a way appropriate to their own culture and society without the need to adopt Tibetan culture and customs.
Instead of depending solely on the painted chips like they did in the previous experiment, they " began presenting items of natural or artificial object and asking ...’ what stain does it have ’, a question provided us by a bilingual teacher "( 1975 ).
Instead, B welcomes Jared and seems legitimately motivated to educate him, even presenting his teachings to Jared one-on-one.

Instead and sweeping
Instead, points are only awarded for knocking, sweeping, or throwing your opponent to the floor.

Instead and story
Instead, the story is assembled from a variety of sources, some of which report contradictory versions of the events.
Instead of approaching The Hobbit as a children's book in its own right, critics such as Randell Helms picked up on the idea of The Hobbit as being a " prelude ", relegating the story to a dry-run for the later work.
Instead, Kubrick collaborated with Clarke on adapting the short story " The Sentinel " into what eventually became 2001: A Space Odyssey ( 1968 ).
Instead of discarding these ideas altogether, Melville instead weaved them into a coherent short story and had the character Ishmael demonstrate his eloquence and intelligence by telling the story to his impressed friends.
Instead, the story is narrated in captions positioned at the bottom or sides of panels.
Instead, the overarching story of all five seasons of the series pitted Angel as the central player in a battle between the " good " Powers That Be and the " evil " law firm Wolfram & Hart and his possible role in a prophesied apocalypse.
Instead of offering the essence of a story up front, feature writers may attempt to lure readers in.
Instead later annalists have combined the disaster at the Caudine Forks with the tale of the military tribune of 258 to produce the entirely fictitious story recorded by Livy, the difference being that while in the originals the Romans suffered defeat and death, here none of Decius ' men are killed and the Romans win a great victory.
Instead, Mizoguchi chose for his source Mayama Chūshingura, a cerebral play dealing with the story.
Yet in Luz's view the contours appear, in part, strangely overlapped and inverted: " Egypt, formerly the land of suppression becomes a place of refuge and it is the King of Israel who now takes on the role of Pharaoh ... Matthew is not simply retelling the Moses story .. Instead, the story of Jesus really is a new story: Jesus is at once the new Moses and the inverse of Moses.
Instead of creating a parallel story for the film or embellishing the biblical account, as is the case with other biblical films such as The Ten Commandments or The Greatest Story Ever Told, the filmmakers chose to adhere as closely as possible to the Gospel of Luke.
Instead, he portrayed Simon Trent, a washed-up actor who used to play a superhero in a TV series called The Gray Ghost and who now has difficulty finding work ( which was essentially a mirror story of West's own career at the time ).
Instead, it is typically placed "... midway between the novel proper and the mere collection of stories ," known as the short story cycle.
Instead, the novel is a patchwork of flashbacks and lengthy sidetracks that weave together to tell the story of the Ipe family.
Instead, Poe combined characteristics of two insects found in the area where the story takes place.
Instead, the story flashes back 55 years to a life-changing event: in 1893, the 24-year-old Gandhi is thrown off a South African train for being an Indian sitting in a first-class compartment despite having a ticket.
Instead, he recounts a story of human brutality, being adrift on a lifeboat with his mother, a sailor with a broken leg, and the ship's cook, who killed the sailor and Pi's mother and cut them up to use as bait and food.
Instead Melville incorporated the ballad and expanded the head-note sketch into a story that eventually reached 150 manuscript pages.
Instead, the Delos Lovelace transcription remains the official book-length treatment of the story.
Instead, he focused on a story set in the future and placed the three shorter stories, " authored " by Knecht in The Glass Bead Game at the end of the novel.
Instead, the issue cover art closely, but not exactly, resembled the corresponding mainstream story.
Instead of being forgotten, because of their testimony, the Rosewood story is known across our state and across our nation.

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