Instead of depicting Dorothy, the novel focuses on Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West.

Instead Paul focuses on contrasting the birth of Jesus with the fall of Adam, and presents Jesus as the " firstborn of all creation ", and a second Adam, in Colossians 1: 15-16.

Instead, it focuses on one form of fetishism at a time and the patients ' individual problems.

Instead the sources focuses on a mutiny by part of the soldiery, which was suppressed by the sympathetic common sense of the distinguished dictator Marcus Valerius Corvus, who was said to have vanquished a Gallic champion in single combat in his youth.

Instead, bonsai practice focuses on long-term cultivation and shaping of one or more small trees growing in a container.

Instead of an incentive to reduce labor cost, throughput accounting focuses attention on the relationships between throughput ( revenue or income ) on one hand and controllable operating expenses and changes in inventory on the other.

Instead of focusing on the individual's appraisal of so-called stressors in relation to his or her own coping skills ( as the transactional model does ), the health realization model focuses on the nature of thought, stating that it is ultimately a person's thought processes that determine the response to potentially stressful external circumstances.

Instead of focusing on the individual and his or her personality, or on how the society or social situation causes human behavior, symbolic interactionism focuses on the activities that take place between actors.

Bart Blasengame gave the film 4 out of 5 stars, stating: " Instead of taking the usual tour documentary approach and dwelling on individual concerts or behind-the-scenes banter between the band, Gee's film focuses on the absurdity of being an important rock band in the current musical landscape-the shallow marketing of the band, the endless stream of redundant interviews, the blinding photo shoots and awkward television appearances.

Instead, competitive dressage focuses on movements such as the piaffe, passage, half-pass, extended trot, pirouette, and tempi changes.

Instead, it focuses upon providing a framework to structure IT-related activities and the interactions of IT technical personnel with business customers and users.

Instead, it focuses more on winning a bout.

Instead it focuses on the character of Buzz Rickson ( McQueen ) and his determination to serve himself and get what he wants – in the process antagonizing everyone.

Instead, the story focuses on the future.

Instead of formal structure, the poem focuses on the flow of sound.

Instead, it focuses on immigration as a “ natural consequence of economic globalization and market penetration across national boundaries ” ( Massey, et al., 1993, p. 432 ).

Instead of describing the abnormalities in structure and form, research focuses nowadays at decoding the molecular interactions that underlie them.

Instead the story focuses on dialogue.

Instead, Baudelaire focuses on dirty, poverty-stricken areas of Paris with social problems rather than the Paris of the upper class.

Instead it focuses upon faces in spaces, intensity within enclosure, as in the late plays of Samuel Beckett.

Instead, it focuses on diversity and it looks at how different individuals and groups operate in and adapt to their total environments through a variety of behaviors, technologies, organizations, structures and beliefs.

Instead, Gecko Theatre Company focuses on their personal experiences, relationships, and emotional responses to the world for inspiration.

Instead, it focuses on the visual look of the video especially with its special effects which emulate a Rubik's Cube effect.

Instead, it focuses on the wider story of Christ's teachings, example, and the church movement he founded.

Instead it means that the thinking in which decision issues has the power to determine the morality of the decision, as in this instance the pressure for renewed practical or legislative attention to the constitutional problems the decision had uncovered might have done.

Instead the Annales focused attention on the synthesizing of historical patterns identified from social, economic, and cultural history, statistics, medical reports, family studies, and even psychoanalysis.

Instead, women were taught to be committed to their husbands and " all his interests … show attention and care … sincere and discreet zeal for his salvation.

Instead, he turned his attention to chronology and " harmony ," the numerological relationships among music, mathematics and the physical world, and their astrological consequences.

Instead, Carpenter turned his attention to the minor league affiliates, continuing an effort begun by Cox a year earlier ; prior to Cox ' ownership, the Phillies had paid almost no attention to player development.

Instead, compliments shall be paid by standing at attention.

" Instead he paid more attention to the industrial regions and the needs of Ontario and Quebec, particularly with respect to the proposed St. Lawrence Seaway project with the United States.

Instead, he turns his attention to the Treveri and Ambiorix.

Instead, he turned his attention to the provincial Progressive Conservatives, who held no seats in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and who had captured only 13 % of the vote in the 1963 election ( when it had contested only 33 of the province's 63 constituencies ).

Instead, papers are distributed in hard copy and speakers call out paragraph numbers to call attention to their most salient points.

Instead, she attempts to grow her own real food, her efforts attracting the attention of the Faeries, and her stubbornness attracting the ire of Titania: the Queen tricks Molly into eating Faerie food by making her crops grow overnight.

Instead, Alito said, the protesters " brutally attacked " Matthew Snyder to attract public attention.

Instead public attention was diverted from focusing on any election by the arrest of 12 senior reformist members of the Central Council ( legislative body of PFDJ ) and the National Council.

Instead, he advised that the USA should focus on the popular arts such as sponsoring international tours of famous jazz musicians, which could draw attention to an indigenous American artform with artists who often performed in mixed race bands.

Instead of focusing armed attention on the Greens as a whole, the Reds treated each peasant army as a specific instance of unrest, suppressing harshly and further angering the peasant population.

" Instead he paid more attention to the industrial regions and the needs of Ontario and Quebec regarding the proposed St. Lawrence Seaway project with the United States.

Instead of the memory system having to pay moment-to-moment attention to the environment to account for all environmental changes, the ( STS ) serves as a buffer and separates the environment from the memory system.

Instead, they turn their attention to destroying the recording by capturing Nyder who they force to take to where the recording has been stored.

Instead of striking fear in their adversaries, the yells served to direct their attention to where the British were, helping the rousing troops to focus their attention and musket fire and making it near impossible for officers ' orders to be heard above the din.

Instead he turned his attention to publishing political articles in Western periodicals such as the Revue des Deux Mondes outlining his strongly held views on Russia's role in the world ( see below ).

Instead, the attention was turned to a 30 hour watch, of a design very similar to what ultimately became the standard for an American 18 size watch.

Instead he began to turn his attention to the Nawanagar succession, beginning to make enquiries in India as to his position.