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Instead and attempting
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, her army made another forced march of to Tewkesbury, attempting to reach the next bridge at Upton-upon-Severn, further on.
Instead of using a greater number of bits and attempting to record a signal's precise amplitude for every sample cycle, a Direct Stream Digital recorder works by encoding a signal in a series of PWM pulses of fixed amplitude but variable duration and timing.
Instead of attempting to fight force with force, Muste instead advised the striking textile workers to " smile as we pass the machine guns and the police.
Instead of attempting to break out of the encirclement, German dictator Adolf Hitler decided to keep Axis forces in Stalingrad and resupply them by air.
Instead, he acted as a power-broker, working closely with the Ibelins and attempting to influence the marriages of the princesses.
Instead of attempting to build a single operating system that could support real-time and non-real-time capabilities, RTLinux was designed to share a computing device between a real-time and non-real-time operating system so that ( 1 ) the real-time operating system could never be blocked from execution by the non-real-time operating system and ( 2 ) components running in the two different environments could easily share data.
Instead of attempting to defeat the incumbent in his district, Rothman elected to continue serving the Ninth District.
Instead of attempting to make a " dream couple " between two extremely attractive people, Average Joe tried to get 16 to 18 ordinary men to win over the heart of a beauty queen.
Instead he is offered to fight as a mercenary for Motoki, who are attempting to gain control of the planet Baker, a satellite of the Delta Pavonis system.
Instead of attempting to solve the marginal, the goal here is to find the values that maximises the global function ( i. e. most probable values in a probabilistic setting ), and it can be defined using the arg max:
Instead of attempting to rescue the population from imminent destruction, though, Confederate forces concentrated on evacuating their own equipment and personnel from the planet.
Instead of attempting an immediate breakout, German high command decided that the trapped forces would remain in Stalingrad in a bid to hold out.
Instead of attempting to secure the entire landing zone with such a limited force, most of Bravo was kept near the center of the LZ as a strike force, while smaller units were sent out to reconnoiter the surrounding area.
Instead, Hunter orders the arrest of Ramsey for attempting to circumvent protocol.
Instead, he berated Murtaugh, who responded by cursing at Ellis, ordering him out of the clubhouse, and attempting to fight him.
Instead, as he approached the battleground after his scouting trip he saw Major Reno's demoralized men attempting to organize a defensive position on the bluff and he chose to join them.
Instead of attempting a media blackout as with the 2008 Tibetan unrest, the Party has adopted a series of more advanced techniques to influence the information leaving China.
Instead of attempting to drum up the widest popular support, hoping for spontaneous pro-democracy risings in most towns, Constantine preferred to let his generals put together the necessary force for advancing on Thessaloniki in strict compliance with military bureaucracy.
* Instead of Rawlinson and the Prince being killed in a plane crash while attempting to leave the country, the pair die in a gallant shootout against overwhelming odds.

Instead and impossible
Instead, the phrase appears to have originated in the early 19th century United States ( particularly in the sense " pull oneself over a fence by one's bootstraps "), to mean an absurdly impossible action, an adynaton.
Instead producers could manipulate sounds to an unprecedented degree and producers like Spector and Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance.
Instead, Christ, under the impossible burden, and in human anxiety, prayed for help for himself-the moment had passed where he could have won back Ardor or Satan.
Instead, perhaps believing a false report of a superior British fleet in the Bay of Biscay, and against the Spanish commanders ' objections, he sailed away back to Cádiz, rendering Napoleon's planned invasion of Britain wholly impossible.
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, paths in these directions, and any other path that does not bisect one of the six cell edges, will " zig-zag "; since no two directions are orthogonal, it is impossible to move forward in one direction without moving backwards slightly in the other.

Instead and why
: Instead of England's early Sunday dinner, a postchurch ordeal of heavy meats and savory pies, why not a new meal, served around noon, that starts with tea or coffee, marmalade and other breakfast fixtures before moving along to the heavier fare?
Instead appealing to others could be interpreted as the solipsist fulfilling its own rules it itself created ( this leads to interesting questions as to why the solipsist's rules would require it to reach agreements in a code the solipsist made with agents the solipsist created for the personal gratification of the solipsist ).
Instead they concentrated on the problem of the will of the gods: if the gods created the universe and man and have a will and a plan for everyone and everything in it, why did they not devise a system for communicating that will in a clear manner?
Instead Gladstone said in his speech in the Commons that he did not see why any man should not have the vote unless he was mentally incapacitated, but added that this would not come about unless the working class showed an interest in reform.
Instead, he wanted a high-quality instrument chip, which is the reason why the SID has features like the envelope generator, previously not found in home computer sound chips.
Instead, since FBI agents had just questioned him about Jenkins, he publicly asked Hoover to explain why Jenkins had not undergone a rigorous security check before joining the White House staff.
To see why this should be true, suppose an investor is considering buying one of the two firms U or L. Instead of purchasing the shares of the levered firm L, he could purchase the shares of firm U and borrow the same amount of money B that firm L does.
Instead, she wants to find out herself why he did it, and drive her husband to insanity by building on his vanity and paranoia.
The FAQ includes a 1996 response to Wainwright by an American, listing variations on the rule and their exceptions, contending that even the restricted version has too many exceptions, and concluding " Instead of trying to defend the ' rule ' or ' guideline ', "' i ' before ' e ' except after ' c '", why don't we all just agree that it is dumb and useless, and be content just to laugh at it?
Instead, she tells him why she came.
Instead of explaining why people are different, it explains why we are all the same in ways that leave us vulnerable to disease.
Instead the question of why Karin turns away from Andreas seems intentionally perplexing.
The passengers commend the Korean student but she scoffs at them too, asking, " Instead of praising me, why don't you say something yourself?
" Instead, Dylan again second-guessed some of his better lines ... and absolutely one of his best vocals from a fraught decade, rerecording the song ... with a whomping synthesizer and horns track ..." Music critic Tim Riley argued, " the alternate take ... has such an undeniably raunchy attitude ( and guitar solo by Miami Steve Van Zandt ) you wonder why Dylan stuck with the lifeless take that makes Empire Burlesque drift off on side two.
Instead of using a pre-determined rate based on estimates, why not base the overhead rate on the actual total manufacturing overhead cost and the actual total amount of the activity base incurred on a monthly, quarterly, or annual basis?

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