Instead of attending lectures, he spent his student years reading the works of Gauss and Jacobi — the consequence of this being he failed his examinations.

Instead of limiting students to attending courses or reading printed manuals, students are able to acquire knowledge and skills through methods that are much more conducive to individual learning preferences.

Instead of attending the funeral, the bailli Raymond of Tripoli called an assembly of his supporters at Nablus, the headquarters of the Ibelin family.

Instead of attending Harvard, Taylor became an apprentice patternmaker and machinist, gaining shop-floor experience at Enterprise Hydraulic Works in Philadelphia ( a pump-manufacturing company whose proprietors were friends of the Taylor family ).

Instead of attending to his studies to secure an engineering diploma, Boland took Irish language and history classes at night.

Instead of attending a school or the gymnasium, Vetsera attended an " Institute for Daughters of the Nobility ".

Instead Forster's role became more like that of a modern Governor-General: opening fetes, visiting hospitals, attending sporting events, hosting balls and banquets.

Instead of a vote per attending individual, each entity would have a single vote.

Instead of attending college, Burciaga opted to turn professional after finishing high school, signing a Project-40 contract with the MLS.

Instead, those attending the ward that day are invited to stand and bear testimony of the Savior and His work and influence.

Instead of attending an NCAA Division I college, like most NBA players, Llamas chose NCAA Division II Grand Canyon University where he earned NCAA Division II Player Of The Year honors during his senior season.

Instead, I was proud, attending to the Spartans, whose frugal culture I have always imitated.

Instead of attending the opening festivities for the 17th store, Oshin Tanokura decides to take a train trip.

Instead of attending the conference, Locke tried to go on his walkabout, but was denied.

Instead of this the 1930's witnessed a tragic economic depression, the rise of Fascist dictators in Europe, the wasting Civil War in Spain.

Instead of the locked trench warfare of World War I, during World War II, a dynamic network of battles developed where small groups encountered other platoons.

Instead of the loans given to allies in World War I, the United States provided Lend-Lease grants of $ 50, 000, 000, 000.

Instead, from the second half of the 19th century, France concentrated on the establishment of French Indochina and the conflicts with China leading to the Sino-French War.

Instead, they televised a special ABC News report anchored by Peter Jennings on the progress of the Gulf War.

Instead, they upheld the rights of Philip IV's nephew, King Philip VI ( an agnatic descendant of the House of France ), thereby setting the stage for the Hundred Years ' War ( see family tree below ).

Instead, the navy operates the Naval Postgraduate School and the Naval War College separately.

Instead, he retired to Huntsville, Texas, where he died before the end of the Civil War.

Instead, Dulles received an Army commission as Major on the War Industries Board.

Instead, the Republic remained stubbornly neutral during the Seven Years ' War which enabled it to greatly neglect both its army and navy.

Instead, he settled in Shelby County, Kentucky, and fought in the Indian wars with Daniel Boone and served with Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812.

Instead the railroad laid its tracks seven miles east and set up the new town of Hastings, which in September 1878 won a five-year Great County Seat War and became the county seat.

Instead it continued as the newly formed Strategic Services Unit ( SSU ), located initially in the War Department.

Instead, the music of the United States is that of dozens or hundreds of indigenous and immigrant groups, all of which developed largely in regional isolation until the American Civil War, when people from across the country were brought together in army units, trading musical styles and practices.

Instead, they were first used during the First Chechen War.

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, the generals of the Grand Alliance became heroes of a Europe " civilized even when at war "-an ideal which would last, with some exceptions, to the early days of the First World War.

Instead of the Germans, 3, 609 ( mostly Serb ) colonists settled in the town after World War II.

Instead, Clarke offered it to President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War and the Second Massachusetts Regiment used it for training as " Camp Andrew ".

Instead, they published articles discussing ancient history, including the Peloponnesian War as veiled allegories of the contemporary conflict.

Instead, both sides remained stuck in the so-called Phoney War, where neither side attacked the other and both stayed in their safe positions.

Instead, at Windsor in 1386, John I of Portugal signed the remarkably long-lasting Portuguese-British Alliance, which continued through the Napoleonic Wars and ensured Portugal's tenuous neutrality in World War II.

Instead, it suggests that Josef Mengele was recruited by the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to produce " grotesque, child-size aviators " to be remotely piloted and landed in America to cause hysteria in the likeness of Orson Welles ' 1938 radio drama War of the Worlds, but that the aircraft crashed and the incident was hushed up by the Americans.

Instead of being part of an organized plan to rebuild their civilization, they find themselves isolated in a world where the War is only a distant legend, the people are ignorant of anything but the struggle to survive and strange mutated animals haunt their footsteps.

Instead of the Academy of Law, they had Law School overseen by a Principal.

Instead of going to university, Rochford was sent to the Academy at Geneva, where he lodged with the family of Professor Antoine Maurice.

Instead of learning his trade Tropinin secretly attended free drawing lessons in the Imperial Academy of Arts.

Instead he attended United States Naval Academy, graduating 15th in his class of 47 in 1897.

Instead he joined the Royal Artillery as a private, quickly became an NCO, entered the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and was commissioned into the Royal Tank Regiment.

Instead, he attended Powis Academy ( now St. Machar Academy ) in Aberdeen.

Instead of getting into teaching, he entered Mukden Military Academy of Manchukuo.

Instead, Gaven became ( at the time, since passed by Freddy Adu ) the youngest player to sign with MLS when, at the age of 16 years and two months, he joined the league after having spent two years training with other young Americans at the USSF's Bradenton Academy.

Instead of seeking a travel stipend from the Academy, Skovgaard chose to follow his friend Høyen ’ s advice and continue to develop his craft in Denmark using Danish landscapes as his subject matter.