Instead, the group buying websites went ahead with an IPO on November4, 2011.

Instead of buying the sugar from Polynesia, a nation can make sugar from sugar beets, maple sap, or sweetener from stevia plant, keeping the profits circulating within the nation's economy.

Instead of buying industrially grown foods, wild foragers find and harvest food and medicinal plants growing in their own communities.

Instead of first buying the stock, and then artificially raising its price before selling, in a " short and distort " the scammer first short-sells the stock, and then artificially lowers the price, using the same techniques as the pump and dump but using criticism or negative predictions regarding the stock.

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 of buying goods for personal satisfaction, consumption downshifting, purchasing only the necessities, is a way to focus on quality of life rather than quantity.

Instead, after buying the coffee, she fled immediately to Los Angeles, where she befriended an elderly pensioner she met in a bar.

Instead of buying the animals, the city offered to give Knight two circus cages and allowed him to place the caged bears on the grounds of City Park ( now called Washington Park ).

Instead of buying a magazine like Soap Opera Digest, in which all soap operas are covered, Soaps In Depth gave the soap viewer and potential shopper three choices: ABC Soaps In Depth, CBS Soaps In Depth, and NBC Soaps In Depth.

Instead of buying PBX equipment, users contract for PBX services from a hosted PBX service provider, a particular type of application service provider ( ASP ).

Imprisonment displaces that economic activity: Instead of buying snacks in a local deli, the prisoner makes those purchases in a prison commissary.

When the hospital's wishlist is completed, they are then added to the map on the Child's Play website. Instead of buying items off the wishlists users can donate money through PayPal or check.

Instead of buying 50 CDs and managing those 50 individually, the company can buy one copy of the software and request the software vendor to issue a paper license authorizing them to use it on 50 computers.

Instead of buying a lot of off-network sitcoms and running cartoons, WSVN opted to pour most of its resources into its news department.

Instead of par value, some U. S. states allow no-par stocks to have a stated value, set by the board of directors of the corporation, which serves the same purpose as par value in setting the minimum legal capital that the corporation must have after paying any dividends or buying back its stock.

Instead of buying the melon at the street market, Paifu and José and decide to steal a watermelon from a field.

Instead of buying upgrades to ships to perform better in huge naval battles, it is often the case that upgrades are made so that the ships can carry more cargo, and therefore make the colony more money.

Instead of reflecting the performance of actual hedge funds they take a statistical approach to the analysis of historic hedge fund returns, and use this to construct a model of how hedge fund returns respond to the movements of various investable financial assets.

Instead, they must now determine the actual network of every number before routing the call.

Instead, reflecting the actual plotline of the play, David turns it into a huge success.

Instead of writing data to an actual disc, it creates a virtual disk image.

Instead of myopia being caused by a defect in a structural protein, defects in the control of these structural proteins might be the actual cause of myopia.

Instead, Congress chose to permit all persons to sue to recover three times their actual damages every time they were injured in their business or property by an antitrust violation.

Instead they showed some staged theatrics that suggested the computer was not responsive, and announced it was predicting 8-7 odds for an Eisenhower win ( the actual prediction was 100-1 ).

Instead of an indication of age ( 10, 20 ...) the actual vintage year is mentioned.

Instead of setting throughput at a fixed air replacement rate, carbon dioxide sensors are used to control the rate dynamically, based on the emissions of actual building occupants.

Instead of a machine port representing an actual device, it would represent a " virtual " device, which could be managed by the operating system.

Instead, deriving from the name of its capital city, the ROC government finally formulated the name “ Chinese Taipei ,” instead of accepting the offer of “ Taiwan ,” because “ Chinese Taipei ” signified an uncertain boundary that could exceed the ROC ’ s actual territory of control of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu, whenever the ROC government wished to assert it.

" Instead of actual dialogue, the characters feature " mumbling " voices.

Instead, he tells Lestrade to charge him with actual murder, for Moran is the man who murdered Ronald Adair.

Instead, to break the random oracle assumption, one must discover some unknown and undesirable property of the actual hash function ; for good hash functions where such properties are believed unlikely, the considered protocol can be considered secure.

Instead, Janco was publicizing the idea that Dada and various other strands of modernism were the actual tradition, for being indirectly indebted to the absurdist nature of Romanian folklore.

Instead of just having one voxel, dozens of rotating voxels were used in the shape and depth of the actual polygon model data, making it true real-time 3D without requiring 3D hardware.

Instead, one side usually fled before actual bayonet fighting ensued.

Instead, a new financial reporting and management system was developed based on the actual profit outcome.

Instead, that actual restriction is to be imposed by the system administrator or the system programmer.

Instead of Justin's being manipulated by Richard, as she had previously thought, Richard was being manipulated by Justin, who was the actual killer.

* Instead of renting all their actual usage time, rent part of their points without actually getting any usage time and use the rest of the points ;

Instead of tracing the photographs onto backgrounds, as they had done in Fritz the Cat, the film uses actual photographs and live-action stock footage as backgrounds for much of the film.

Instead, an historical example of the embrace of technological assumptions happened with the Western world, which, heavily influenced by literacy, took its principles of " uniform and continuous and sequential " for the actual meaning of " rational.

Instead the hidden variable set at the source is taken to determine only the probability of a given outcome, the actual individual outcomes being partly determined by other hidden variables local to the analyser and detector.