Instead of that he was engulfed by bedlam.

Instead of 3 a.m. in the past, the Juniors Class at Westminster was held at 4:45 p.m..

Instead of being depressed by this news, Mr. Crombie was actually relieved.

Instead Sergeant Early was quiet, sharp and confident.

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 linking the nine numbers of this diagram with the traditional Nine Provinces, as was usually done, this equated the odd, Yang numbers with mountains ( firm and resistant, hence Yang ) and the even numbers with rivers ( sinuous and yielding, hence Yin ) ; ;

Instead of holding Lincoln in contempt of court as was expected, the judge, a Democrat, reversed his ruling, allowing the evidence and acquitting Harrison.

Instead, the beam was split into two parts, depending on whether the atomic spin was oriented up or down.

Instead, the irrigated agriculture project was headed for completion with apparently no prospects for extension beyond 2011.

Instead, the value of the AMD was kept high, out of a fear of inflation and concern about alienating the powerful government-connected importers of oil, sugar, flour, cigarettes and beverages.

Instead Arminius proposed that the election of God was of believers, thereby making it conditional on faith.

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

Instead Neptune was predicted using Newton's law of universal gravitation.

Instead of a soup, the atom was also sometimes said to have had a " cloud " of positive charge.

Instead he wrote radio scripts, including Your Hit Parade, until he was introduced to Austrian composer Frederick Loewe, who needed a partner, in 1942 at the Lamb's Club.

Instead like other jackals Anubis ' head was black to resemble the god of death.

Instead, the Hebrew name Ahasuerus accords with an inscription of the time that notes that Artaxerxes II was named also Arshu, understood as a shortening of Achshiyarshu the Babylonian rendering of the Persian Khshayarsha ( Xerxes ), through which the Hebrew Achashverosh ( Ahasuerus ) is derived.

Instead a minority Labour government was formed under Harold Wilson but with no formal support from Thorpe.

Instead, Pasternak was told, " Comrade Stalin is busy.

Instead, Fitzroy was placed into administration, and its administrator accepted an offer to merge with Brisbane.

Instead, a plebiscite was held in which it was formally proclaimed that Castro's brand of socialism would be perpetual.

Instead, he was lumped with the other Emperors of the fallen dynasty.

Instead it was considered as a late Roman form of the Corinthian order.

Instead, the men slept on mattresses on the floor, yet they carried briefcases, were frequently on their mobile phones, and were occasionally picked up by a limousine.

Instead of falling on the loose ball, the Dolphins kicker picked it up, attempted a forward pass, but batted it in the air, and Redskins ' cornerback Mike Bass caught it and returned it 49 yards for a touchdown.

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, 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 of airborne radar, they relied on ground based systems ; the targets would first be picked up by radar assigned to a " cell ", the radar would then direct a searchlight to " paint " the target, allowing the fighters to attack them without on-board aids.

Instead, he drifted into the transport business on the Ohio and Mississippi -- and quickly picked up a new nickname: " the Snapping Turtle.

Instead, in a wild broken play, the Bulldogs ' center and placeholder mishandled the snap, but Etter picked up the bobbled ball and ran it for a touchdown to win the game 14 – 7.

Instead, the song had been written by Iijima prior to being picked for the role of Minmay.

Instead, the party leaders picked Željko Šturanović, former Minister of Justice, to be the new Prime Minister.

Instead of a permanent replacement, a kid from the audience was picked to be " Co-Host of the Day " for the remainder of the series ' run, expanding on the show's audience participation theme.

Instead, mafia families in Chicago, Cleveland and various cities on the East Coast had met shortly after Williams ' resignation announcement and picked Presser to lead the Teamsters.

Instead of picking up his name, they picked up my name and sent me the information.

Instead, Kang disguised himself by writing an examination essay espousing traditionalist ideas and passed the exam while Liang's paper was assumed to be Kang's and picked out to be failed.

Instead, they brought him to Le Havre, where he boarded an open fishing boat and was picked up on 5 May by on patrol in the English Channel, arriving in London on 8 May 1798.

Instead he attended St. Thomas University ( Florida ) and was drafted again in the 1996 Major League Baseball Draft, when he was picked in the 27th round ( 799th overall ) by the Kansas City Royals.

Instead of playing professional baseball, Mitchell chose to attended the University of Illinois, which he picked from a host of schools that offered him scholarships.

Instead, the family of the bride picked the prospective husband.

All of this was mitigated by the ease with which extensions and the operating system itself could be swapped in and out: Instead of modifying configuration files as on other operating systems, extensions simply had to reside in a particular folder to be picked up.

Instead of needing to destroy all asteroids on the screen, blowing up asteroids sometimes produces electrons, shown to be balls of light that can be " picked up " and follow the ship.