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 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, he focuses his attention to obtaining the Cooper Prize, a prestigious scholarship that will allow him to attend medical school.

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 of emotional recrimination, loaded phrases and sloganeering, we need a dispassionate study of the facts, a better understanding of the opposite viewpoint and a more serious effort to extend the areas of agreement until a solution is reached.

Instead of the expected `` annoyances '' due to the nature of his mission, he received many calling cards and invitations from `` gentlemen of mark, on whom I had no sort of claim, & have had many more invitations than I could accept ''.

Instead many Canadian companies have focused their exploration and expansion activities overseas where prices are lower and governments more accommodating.

Instead The Far Side used a wide variety of characters including humans, monsters, aliens, chickens, cows, worms, amoebas and more.

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 of attempting to defend all of southern China, Li ordered what remained of the Nationalist armies to withdraw to Guangxi and Guangdong, hoping that he could concentrate all available defenses on this smaller, and more easily defensible, area.

Instead, the aim is to create room for critical thinking and more inclusive understanding of the past and conceptions of “ the other .”

One critic states of psychologists that " Instead of replacing ' metaphysical ' terms such as ' desire ' and ' purpose ', they used it to legitimize them by giving them operational definitions ... the initial, quite radical operationalist ideas eventually came to serve as little more than a ' reassurance fetish ' ( Koch 1992 ) for mainstream methodological practice.

Instead, the game spawns even more enemies if the player kills a woman.

Instead he believes his work, especially his earlier more autobiographical poems, are rooted in a changing country which echoes the Welshness of the past and the Anglicisation of the new industrial nation: " rural and urban, chapel-going and profane, Welsh and English, Unforgiving and deeply compassionate.

Instead, their goal was to emulate the moral life of Christ more completely.

Instead, India launched EDUSAT, an education satellite that can reach more of the country at a greatly reduced cost.

Instead, education officials across the world believe that by setting clear, achievable, higher standards, aligning the curriculum, and assessing outcomes, learning can be increased for all students, and more students can succeed than the 50 percent who are defined to be above or below grade level by norm referenced standards.

Instead, it was found more effective when only trying to learn important information.

Instead they are dominated by generally older, more evolved stars that are orbiting the common center of gravity in random directions.

Instead, the Reichsgut was increasingly pawned to local dukes, sometimes to raise money for the Empire, but more frequently to reward faithful duty or as an attempt to establish control over the dukes.

Instead of using improved techniques to increase the productivity of the land, Honduran farmers have merely expanded the hectarage under cultivation to produce more crops — pushing their fields ever farther into the forests.

Instead of looking towards Persia, Babur was more focused on the Indian subcontinent, which included the region known as Kabulistan.

Instead, Jews interested in observing Halakha typically choose to follow specific rabbis or affiliate with a more tightly structured community.

Instead, he improvised: " He says more than he should, something different from what his advisers had recommended, and is more provocative than he had intended to be.

Instead they favor more evolutionary methods of bringing about anarchy through alternative experiences and experiments and education which could be brought about today.

Instead of prompting a backlash against the movement from which the attackers originated, however, Saudi Arabia, already very conservative, responded by shoring up its fundamentalist credentials with even more Islamic restrictions.

Instead, Godfrey himself seems to have used the more ambiguous term princeps, or simply retained his title of dux from Lower Lorraine.

The results were summarized by historian, playwright, and gay-rights activist Martin Duberman, " Instead of Kinsey's 37 % ( men who had at least one homosexual experience ), Gebhard and Johnson came up with 36. 4 %; the 10 % figure ( men who were " more or less exclusively homosexual for at least three years between the ages of 16 and 55 "), with prison inmates excluded, came to 9. 9 % for white, college-educated males and 12. 7 % for those with less education.