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 being confined to a circle, javelin throwers are provided with a runway wide and at least in length, ending in a curved arc from which their throw will be measured ; athletes typically use this distance to gain momentum in a " run-up " to their throw.

Instead of ending the war with a swift victory that might have boosted their political prospects, the Liberals signed a truce that seemed to allow the Bolivians to regroup.

Instead, he wanted the ending to be " a poetic mixture of dream and memory and narrative resolution ".

Instead he moved his troops to Morristown for the winter, thus ending the victorious Trenton-Princeton campaign.

I liked ending it with that sort of ambiguous ending .” Instead, he wrote several prequels:

Instead of ending the chaos, these new powers only fed local ambitions and rivalries.

'" Instead, what he had to say about it was: " There's nothing you can't see coming in this flick, including the surprise ending.

Instead, neurotransmitters are recaptured (" reuptake ") by the pre-synaptic nerve ending, and recycled for later transmissions.

Instead of ending the Western Schism, the Council elected a third papal claimant, Alexander V, who would be succeeded by John XXIII.

Instead of trying the complexities of the 38. Rd1 line, Kasparov said at his press conference that he had no idea how the game would turn out, and began to force the World Team into an ending in which each side got a new queen, and the outcome was still very unclear.

Instead of ending his career at a post-season bowl game, which was expected, the two universities announced that each would penalize their respective football programs for their unsportsmanlike conduct by declining any bowl game invitations.

Instead of Homer, Bart, Barney and Moe going deer hunting and ending up at " Santa's Village " they would go back to the steel mill.

Instead of spending the novel tracking down the man who killed his parents, Starr spends much of his time in the man's company, fully aware of his identity but pretending ignorance in order to reach his larger goal of ending the pirate menace.

Instead of ending the concerto in a pompous way, Mozart chose to end it instead with the lonely oboe theme in G major played piano, adding the feeling of a musical " disappearing ".

Instead of a crossover with a definite ending, the publishers treated the scenario as though it were the new status quo, leaving it open-ended.

Instead of the usual ending theme the first movement of Eine kleine Nachtmusik is played.

Instead of wasting all their time on this ridiculous ending they could have made it a heart-wrenching farewell ..."

Instead of firing the loyal employee, and risk tarnishing his own reputation, the boss enlists him into a campaign to push aside his competition.

Instead of firing the exhaust out of a small hole in the middle of a bell, an aerospike engine avoids this random distribution by firing along the outside edge of a wedge-shaped protrusion, the " spike ".

Instead, they may convert the signal into the release of a neurotransmitter, or into continuous graded potentials, either of which may stimulate subsequent neuron ( s ) into firing an action potential.

Instead, he asserted his authority by firing many long-time employees who questioned his authority.

Instead of depending upon the sometimes unreliable firing of a cartridge to power the cycle of action, a chain gun uses an electric motor to drive the chain that moves in a rectangular circuit via four sprockets that apply tension to it.

Instead, the General Sherman moved upstream firing cannons and guns and eventually anchored at Hwang-gang-jung ( House of Yellow River ).

Instead, the ITD is encoded by phase locking, i. e. firing at or near a particular phase angle of the sinusoidal stimulus sound wave, and the IID is encoded by spike rate.

Instead of heating up the explosive, the EBW detonator wire is heated so quickly by the high firing current that the wire actually vaporizes and explodes due to electric resistance heating.

Instead of firing Thodesen, the board kept him.

Instead of using pin-point artillery firing they used old means of " fire for effect " using artillery en masse.

Instead of using the mounted guidance system a control unit could be deployed and the missiles aimed and fired from up to 100 metres away, allowing the vehicle to remain completely hidden from the enemy ; the Swingfire missile was capable of making a ninety-degree turn immediately after firing.

Instead of firing at them, though, the enemy soldiers begin singing.

Instead, they went on down the hall to their room.

Instead they learn their dissection on the bulbs of plants.

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 of the expected `` annoyances '' due to the nature of his mission, he received many calling cards and invitations from `` gentlemen of mark, on whom I had no sort of claim, & have had many more invitations than I could accept ''.

Instead -- and not just to prove my objectivity -- I hasten to report that it's a highly amusing film which probably does a fairly accurate job of reporting on the Easter vacation shenanigans of collegians down in Fort Lauderdale, and that it seems to come to grips quite honestly with the moral problem that most commonly vexes youngsters in this age group -- that is to say, sex.

Instead, he monitored the campaign closely and relied on the enthusiasm of the Republican Party.

Instead of running on wires as in the Chinese and Japanese models, the beads of Roman model run in grooves, presumably making arithmetic calculations much slower.

Instead, the beam was split into two parts, depending on whether the atomic spin was oriented up or down.

Instead Arminius proposed that the election of God was of believers, thereby making it conditional on faith.

Instead the Annales focused attention on the synthesizing of historical patterns identified from social, economic, and cultural history, statistics, medical reports, family studies, and even psychoanalysis.

Instead they focused on regions in France over long stretches of time.

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

Instead, it is negotiated by or configured at the endpoints on a per-virtual-connection basis.

Instead it tends to depend on the location of kind of data available to the researcher.

Instead, the ratio of the speed of the wind and that of the cups, the anemometer factor, depends on the dimensions of the cups and arms, and may have a value between two and a little over three.

Instead it generates the sequences of many thousands of small DNA fragments ( ranging from 35 to 900 nucleotides long, depending on the sequencing technology ).

Instead he used capital and lower-case letters, numerals, and every typographical symbol available on his extensive and somewhat eccentric typewriter.

Instead of cutting, one may also knock on the deck to indicate that one trusts the dealer to have shuffled fairly.

Instead, the British Parliament and the Government-chiefly in the office of Prime Minister-exercise their powers under ' Royal ( or Crown ) Prerogative ': on behalf of the Monarch and through powers still formally possessed by the Monarch.

Instead of focusing merely on the individual objects ( e. g., groups ) possessing a given structure, category theory emphasizes the morphisms – the structure-preserving mappings – between these objects ; by studying these morphisms, we are able to learn more about the structure of the objects.

Instead, they can agree that certain paradigms should be treated in certain ways, and then agree on the similarities, the so-called warrants between a paradigm and the case at hand.

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 of seeking a grand pattern of history, post-modern interpretations tend to focus on a small subset of Chinese history.

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.