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Instead and seemed
Instead of ending the war with a swift victory that might have boosted their political prospects, the Liberals signed a truce that seemed to allow the Bolivians to regroup.
Instead, it seemed prudent to send an unarmed civilian merchant ship, Star of the West, which might be perceived as less provocative to the Confederates.
Instead of the desert and bush being infused with a dull monotony, everything seemed acute, shrill, and incandescent.
Instead ' Toads ' seemed appropriate because the nature of such beasts is one of humility and quiet persistence.
Instead, Sukarno seemed to give an account about his appointment to the life presidency, his plan of work as president, and how the Constitution worked in practice.
Instead of braking on arrival the train seemed to accelerate, taking the crossover at about.
Instead, liberals either ignored the crime crisis, claimed that law and order was a racist ruse, or maintained that social programs would solve the " root causes " of civil disorder, which by 1968 seemed increasingly unlikely and contributed to a loss of faith in the ability of the government to do what it was above all sworn to do — protect personal security and private property.
Instead, he seemed to be destined to become a journeyman athlete.
Instead, discussions about modes of heredity were galvanized by Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, in which mechanisms of non-Lamarckian heredity seemed to be required.

Instead and troops
Instead he kept his troops close to Hannibal, hoping to exhaust him in a long war of attrition.
Instead of following the remaining Carthaginians at sea, Duilius sailed to Sicily to retrieve control of the troops.
Instead, the troops at Gibbethon chose Omri as king, and he led them to Tirzah where they trapped Zimri in the royal palace.
Instead the troops and ships would be used as part of the coming expedition to the French West Indies.
Instead of allowing construction of camps to proceed in whatever order the contractors saw fit, Groves laid down priorities for completion of camp facilities, so that the troops could begin moving in even while construction was still under way.
Instead, York and Salisbury recruited in their strongholds and met Warwick, who had brought with him his troops from Calais, at Worcester.
Instead, placing the weaker troops on the right flank, he " instructed them to avoid battle and withdraw gradually during the enemy's attack ".
Instead of joining battle with troops tired from the march, they encamped to the west in the foothills of Mount Olocrus.
Instead, he was riding rapidly southeast to Richmond to warn the troops of the Union raiders.
Instead he moved his troops to Morristown for the winter, thus ending the victorious Trenton-Princeton campaign.
Instead, he became a member of the Perry Light Infantry, a regiment of National Guard troops consisting mostly of young Cleveland business men.
Instead, Fei Yi kept Jiang Wei on a short leash, and authorized the latter to lead a detachment of 10, 000 troops to harass Wei's border.
Instead of occupying one town, the troops spread out.
Instead of a frontal assault with massed troops, the unit would have been better served by advancing small teams to develop possible North Vietnamese positions and then calling in air and artillery support.
Instead, Brâncoveanu gathered Wallachian troops in Urlaţi, near the Moldavian border, awaiting for Russian troops to storm into his country and offer his services to the tsar, while also readying to join the Ottoman counter-offensive in the event of a change in fortunes.
Instead of increasing our troop presence, the U. S. should limit its mission in Afghanistan to securing strategic Afghan population centers with the troops currently on the ground.
Instead, he sent Idi Amin and loyal troops to attack the kabaka's palace on nearby Mengo Hill.
Instead, the NVA provided logistical help when Soviet troops advanced into Czechoslovakia and stood at the border ready to intervene in the event that the Soviet Army could not quell the uprising.
Instead of following the remaining Carthaginians at sea, Duilius sailed to Sicily to retrieve control of the troops.
Instead of retreating, Washington, in what Edward G. Lengel calls " an early glimmer of the courage and resolve that would rally the Continentals from many a tight spot later on ", devised a plan to entrap the British light troops.
Instead, Canada's policy was that illegal acts of international aggression must be opposed, as in the Korean War, during which Canada was among the many countries that sent troops to fight in support of South Korea, under a United Nations resolution.
Instead of using their massive fleet to force a passage through the straits to Istanbul, the British and French admirals called for ground troops to capture the Dardanelles peninsula so their battleships could sail on into the Sea of Marmara unmolested.
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 and seen
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, they were seen as the gods ' representatives, effecting their will on earth.
Instead of being seen as an active external force of unconditional love and salvation, the personage of Guanyin is highly revered as the principle of compassion, mercy and love.
Instead, it is revealed that Io has died sometime between the decade after the first movie takes place as Perseus is seen placing stones on her grave.
Instead, the male lyrebird's tail is fanned over the lyrebird during courtship display, with the tail completely covering his head and back — as can be seen in the image at the top of this page, where the Superb Lyrebird's tail ( in courtship display ) is portrayed accurately.
Instead, Ichadon would confess and accept the punishment of execution, for what would quickly be seen as a forgery.
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, Soviet revisionism and " social imperialism " was now seen as China's main enemy.
Instead, dynamic changes of the landscape are now seen as an essential part of their nature.
Instead, Ichadon would confess and accept the punishment of execution, for what would quickly be seen as a forgery.
Instead of these, aliens bearing resemblance to Ice Warriors were seen.
Instead they regarded Opabinia ′ s lobe + gill arrangement as an early form of the biramous limbs which are seen in trilobites and crustaceans and which may be the original form in all arthropods.
Instead the New Testament scriptures are seen as teaching the concept of " freewill offerings " as a means of supporting the church:,.
Instead, all models prominently featured the Eagle head logo, seen at the top right.
Instead he is generally seen as having been a bold and imaginative patron who encouraged the work of an innovative ( but now unknown ) master mason.
Instead of charting one-way causal links from psyche to soma, or vice-versa, it aimed at a systemic model, where multiple biological, psychological and social factors were seen as interlinked.
Instead, Trenchard, seeking equal status with Sykes, argued for a reorganization of the RAF which would have seen himself appointed as the RAF's commander of fighting operations while Sykes would have been left to deal with administrative matters.
Instead, Mahathir ordered what Wain calls " the biggest crackdown on political dissent Malaysia had ever seen ".
Instead of shaking hands with other people, he shook hands with himself, the manner of greeting he had seen in China.
Instead of single ditches, occasionally double-ditch defences were built, as seen at Berkhamsted.
Instead, they were hounded by paparazzi, one of the final times the two were seen together on good terms for quite some time.
Instead of the enacting clause seen in UK acts, acts of the Scottish parliament bear the following text above the long title: " The Bill for this Act of the Scottish Parliament was passed by the Parliament on DATE and received Royal Assent on DATE.
Instead of the elliptical curve which was given by the intersection of two semicircular barrel vaults, or cylinders, he employed the semicircular arch for the diagonal ribs ; this, however, raised the centre of the square bay vaulted above the level of the transverse arches and of the wall ribs, and thus gave the appearance of a dome to the vault, such as may be seen in the nave of Sant ' Ambrogio, Milan.
Thus the player can be presented an overview of the game world in the ability to see it from above, more or less, and with additional details in artwork made possible by using an angle: Instead of showing a humanoid in top-down perspective, as a head and shoulders seen from above, the entire body can be drawn when using a slanted angle ; Turning a character around would reveal how it looks from the sides, the front and the back, while the top-down perspective will display the same head and shoulders regardless.

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