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, the British forces built an airbase on Vágar.

Instead, both the American and British leaderships, as Katz shows, regarded the papacy as tainted by its association with Nazism and irrelevant in the post-1945 reshaping of the Continent.

Instead, he maintained, " the British fleet should be as compact as possible, in order to take the critical moment of an advantage opening ..." Others criticise Hood because he " did not wholeheartedly aid his chief ", and that a lesser officer " would have been court-martialled for not doing his utmost to engage the enemy.

Instead of being one to two miles distant, as on 31 July, on 20 September the British objectives were approximately 1, 500 yards away, without the disadvantage of rain soaked ground and poor visibility encountered in August.

Instead, an arrangement between the French, British and Prussians ( the former stadtholder's champions ) in the matter was reached that in return for dropping any and all claims William was to be compensated with the abbatial domains of Fulda and Corvey Abbey ( see also Principality of Nassau-Orange-Fulda ).

Instead, the proposed constitution conformed to the British model of parliamentary government, which was seen by the liberals as the most viable alternative to the European absolutism of the Meiji Constitution.

Instead, the key launch Vertigo writers were part of the " second wave " of British talent, focused in large part around Gaiman, whose Sandman was so critical to the decision to create Vertigo, and whose Death miniseries launched it.

Instead he saw the cocked hats and white plumes of British staff officers atop a spur of Telegraph Hill calmly watching the battle.

Instead, he made his contribution in short propaganda pieces for the British Film Institute and Pathé News.

Instead of moving southwards as expected, the British and their allies instead thrust eastwards into Southern Germany where they faced a large French army.

Instead of inclining to the right towards the redoubts on the Causeway Heights and the captured British guns, the Light Brigade continued towards Obolensky's battery at the end of the valley.

Instead, Knox at first recommended a continuation of British policies, furnishing the Native nations with livestock, farming implements, and missionaries, in order to pacify them.

Instead of wigs, the men grew their hair long and according to the prevailing fashion in a nation ’ s army, hair was either allowed to grow long with simple modeling, as in the French army of the 1740s, or else was elaborately coiffured as in Prussian and British armies.

Instead he proposed a registry so " that the owners might eventually be paid for the slaves who were entitled to their freedom by British Proclamation and promises.

Instead, Stukus decided that the team name should represent and embrace the entire Province of British Columbia.

Instead D ' Estaing sailed north to participate in a Franco-American assault on the British garrison at Newport, Rhode Island, which ended in failure.

Instead of a career in the ministry he laid aside the Bible and took up arms against the British Government during the Revolutionary War.

Instead, Brown ordered an advance north, intending in turn to force the British to recall Tucker's column to protect Fort George.

Instead, Nicholas Ridley was sent back to the Islands in November 1980 to try to persuade Islanders to accept a proposal for ' leaseback ' whereby nominal sovereignty would be given to Argentina but British administration would be maintained for a fixed number of years until the final handover.

Instead of supporting the claims of its NATO partners, the Eisenhower administration stated that it opposed French and British imperial adventurism in the region by sheer prudence, fearing that Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser's standoff with the region's old colonial powers would bolster Soviet power in the region.

Instead of scaring Britain into turning toward Germany, the main result was to increase British fear and hostility and to draw Britain closer to France.

Instead the commander of the British fleet John Byng was shot after a court-martial, which many considered a smokescreen to protect Newcastle.

Instead, to placate Newcastle and George II, Pitt agreed to send a British contingent to fight in Germany in 1758.

Instead, the Celts that dwelled along the ocean were reported to venerate twin gods ( Dioscori ) that appeared to them coming from that ocean.

Instead, from 1 January 1923, almost all the remaining companies were grouped into the " big four ", the Great Western Railway, the London and North Eastern Railway, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the Southern Railway companies ( there were also a number of other joint railways such as the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway and the Cheshire Lines Committee as well as special joint railways such as the Forth Bridge Railway, Ryde Pier Railway and at one time the East London Railway ).

Instead, the forms of service that were to be included in the Book of Common Prayer were drawn from the Missal ( for the Mass ), Breviary for the daily office, Manual ( for the occasional services ; Baptism, Marriage, Burial etc.

Instead of the banning of all vestments save the rochet ( for bishops ) and the surplice for parish clergy, it permitted ' such ornaments ... as were in use ... in the second year of K. Edward VI '.

Instead, these efforts, it is argued, were made in order to advance Western development and reinforce Western hegemony.

Instead, water clocks in ancient societies were used mainly for astrological reasons.

Instead, he returned with the new idea to produce electronic calculators, which were just coming on the market.

Instead of a mere reproduction of the Cyclopaedia, he persuaded Le Breton to enter upon a new work, which would collect all the active writers, ideas, and knowledge that were moving the cultivated class of the Republic of Letters to its depths but were comparatively ineffectual due to their dispersion.

* Instead of oral laws known to a special class, arbitrarily applied and interpreted, all laws were written, thus made known to all literate citizens ( who could make appeal to the Areopagus for injustices ): "... the constitution formed under Draco, when the first code of laws was drawn up.

Instead, they were seen as the gods ' representatives, effecting their will on earth.

Instead connections to Claudius and Britannicus were emphasised, and Nero's victims, or those otherwise disadvantaged by him, rehabilitated.

Instead of finding himself in serious trouble for acting as though he were joining forces with the Catholics, Elizabeth sent two Gentlemen Pensioners to summon him back within the month.

Instead, claiming that Italians were a superior race to African races and thereby had the right to colonize the " inferior " Africans, it sought to settle 10 to 15 million Italians in Libya.

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 of treating every user as client and server, some users were now treated as ultrapeers, routing search requests and responses for users connected to them.

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 of loading individual rounds into weapons, magazines holding multiple munitions were adopted-these aided rapid reloading.

Instead, the political institutions of the Länder were practically abolished altogether, passing all powers to the central government.

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

Instead, women's coats of arms were shown on a lozenge – a rhombus standing on one of its acute corners, an oval or a cartouche.