Instead, he bought a drilling rig and moved to Texas to drill wells with his little brother and best friend.

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

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 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, 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 .).

Instead, he constantly became lost in parts and components of them, confused some of their details with those of neighboring objects, and so on, unless he allowed time to `` trace '' the object in question through minute movements of the head and hands and in this way to discover its contours.

Instead, according to Buddhist thought, a wise person adopts a middle way without holding conventions to be ultimate or ignoring them when they are fruitful.

Instead of frequently saying " I love you " as in some Western societies, the Chinese are more likely to express feelings of affection in a more casual way.

Instead of living the humility, purity, and truth of his words, man has given way to hatred, greed, and violence.

Instead, the Bahá ' í concept of the Manifestation of God emphasizes simultaneously the humanity of that intermediary and the divinity in the way they show forth the will, knowledge and attributes of God ; thus they have both human and divine stations.

Instead of merely assuming that language influences the thought and behavior of its speakers ( after Humboldt and Sapir ) he looked at Native American languages and attempted to account for the ways in which differences in grammatical systems and language use affected the way their speakers perceived the world.

Instead, what would be required to avoid paradoxes is that unlike any known particle, tachyons do not interact in any way and can never be detected or observed, because otherwise a tachyon beam could be modulated and used to create an anti-telephone or a " logically pernicious self-inhibitor ".

Instead of seeking a peaceful resolution to the conflict by paying homage to the French king, the way his father had done, Edward responded by laying claim to the French crown as the grandson of Philip IV.

Instead René did a My Drug Hell-interview for Nieuwe Revu magazine in which he confessed to long-time heroin and cocain use as a way of dealing with the pressures of fame.

Instead of wanting to skip challenging times, and avoid them, Allah is teaching that the way to the easing, is through, the difficulty.

Instead of describing a process which can only evolve in one way ( as in the case, for example, of solutions of an ordinary differential equation ), in a stochastic or random process there is some indeterminacy: even if the initial condition ( or starting point ) is known, there are several ( often infinitely many ) directions in which the process may evolve.

Instead, many philosophers prefer to consider ' Thought Experiments ' to be merely the use of a hypothetical scenario to help understand the way things actually are.

Instead, his ships made for Ravenspurn, near the mouth of the River Humber, where Henry Bolingbroke had landed in 1399 on his way to reclaim the Duchy of Lancaster and ultimately depose Richard II.

Instead, newcomer AZ led the way with players such as Denny Landzaat, Barry Opdam, Barry van Galen, Ron Vlaar, Jan Kromkamp and Joris Mathijsen.

Instead, since all of the primers are networked in some way, the Chinese girls are able to interact, forming the " mouse army ".

Instead, we can prove a theorem that gives us an easier way to show that a subset of a vector space is a subspace.

Instead of focusing on what they eat, this system classifies predators by the way in which they eat, and the general nature of the interaction between predator and prey species.

Instead, they argue that consumption plays an equally important role, since the way consumers consume a product gives meaning to an item.

Instead of heading straight for the Holy Land, Frederick first sailed to Cyprus, which had been an imperial fiefdom since its capture by Richard the Lionheart on his way to Acre during the Third Crusade.

Instead, the recommended way to take advantage of 8-bit-clean links between machines is to use the ESMTP ( RFC 1869 ) 8BITMIME extension.

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, they reflect the way we actually think, the links between the images are emotional, and simple everyday objects are charged with psychological associations.

Instead she only talks with her father about the differences between the principles he taught her and the way he's behaving.

Instead, the gametes are released into the coelom until they find their way to the posterior end of the caudal region, whereby they find an opening in the digestive system.

Instead the solipsist might suggest that the world that exists is always restricted to his / her field of vision — the way no world exists behind the walls of a stage's set, video game environment, or in a dream.