Instead of attempting the impossible, why not a publicity campaign to prove that all the tiger's stripes are not black??

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 of an elf with pointed ears and repulsive goat hooves, we face a child of nature, pure, but tame and fearless and brutal instincts necessary to enable it to defend itself against threats, and survives even without the help of modern civilization.

Instead of satiation Hitler menaced Poland, and at last Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain dropped appeasement and stood firm in promising to defend Poland.

Instead of punishing him, Wellington orders the soldier to be promoted to corporal, for he " knows how to defend a helpless position ".

Instead of continuing to defend the heights, by the close of battle after dusk he retreated to the south.

Instead, they unanimously voted to join with the Commons on the Petition of Right, while passing their own resolution on 26 May insisting that their intention was " not to lessen or impeach any thing which by the oath of supremacy had sworn to assist and defend ", assuring the King of their loyalty.

Instead, the politicians hoped the American fighters based in Denmark would defend Norway.

Instead of embracing the libertarian motto that " the government that governs least governs best ", the Freedom Party asserts that " the purpose of government is to defend every individual's freedom, not to restrict it.

Instead, he decided to keep things simple: the Dutch would only defend ' Fortress Holland ' ( the Noord-Holland, Zuid-Holland and Utrecht provinces, roughly the area now referred to as the Randstad ), using traditional, static defence lines and fortified fixed positions.

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 of securing the throne for her own offspring, she offers it to Beowulf as she considers her son Heardred to be too inexperienced to defend Geatland against the Swedes.

Instead of trying to defend the shot, Schumacher appeared to jump directly at Battiston, and collided with him in mid-air.

Instead he, like the few other underdogs competing against the German teams, had to defend his nation's pride by dint of heroic skill and daring in inferior machinery.

Instead, Siki signed to defend his title against Irish light heavyweight Mike McTigue on Saint Patrick's Day in Dublin.

Instead, delegates passed a resolution ordering Powderly to defend the organization at all costs and expel any member who did not support the Knights.

Instead, all of the total costs are treated as variable costs, although these costs are divided into costs that are deemed to be functions of different variables.

Instead, all services had names which, being chosen by humans, could be expected to be meaningful to users, and also could be sufficiently long enough to minimize the chance of conflicts.

Instead, the council deposed him and tried him for heresy, simony, schism and immorality, finding him guilty on all counts.

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 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, early 21st century papers on Chinese history tend to be empirical studies of a small part of China which aim to reach a deep understanding of the socio-economics, political dynamics, or cultural dynamics of a small region such as a province or a village with little effort made to create a master narrative which would be generalizable to all of China.

Instead, the Government of India exercised its right of parens patriae to appropriate all the claims of the victims and proceeded to litigate on their behalf, first in the New York courts and later, in the Indian courts.

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, these parsers just provide to the application the parsed FPI and / or URI associated to the notations found in the parsed SGML or XML document, and with a facility for a dictionary containing all notation names declared in the DTD ; these validating parsers will also check the uniqueness of notation name declarations, and will report a validation error if some notation names are used anywhere in the DTD or in the document body but not declared:

Instead, the sisters chanted the Divine Office and kept all the monastic observances.

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, 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 most days having an associated saint as in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints, each day has an animal ( days ending in 5 ), a tool ( days ending in 0 ) or else a plant or mineral ( all other days ).< ref >

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, for Fichte, if the ' I ' is to set itself off at all, it must simply discover itself to be limited, a discovery that Fichte characterizes as a repulse or resistance ( Anstoss ) to the free practical activity of the I.

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

Instead it states that all those condemned at the last judgement, but who subsequently respond in faith, who demonstrate unfeigned penitence, and who make a free choice of blessedness, will eventually be offered salvation ( Chapter 137 ).

Instead, he aggressively pursued plans to move all Indian tribes living east of the Mississippi River to west of the Mississippi.

Instead, Carson fought when necessary, to round up and take prisoner all the Navajo he could find, to force them to go to Bosque Redondo, also called Fort Sumner.

Instead all resources might just be put into a couple of wide classes ( Travel, Crime, Magazines etc .).