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Instead of giving bonuses, Mr. Burns gives everyone a cafeteria voucher and Homer a Joe DiMaggio rookie baseball card for Bart.
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Instead of giving themselves spontaneously to the orgiastic release that jazz can give them, they undergo psychoanalysis or flirt with mysticism or turn to prostitutes for satisfaction.
One critic states of psychologists that " Instead of replacing ' metaphysical ' terms such as ' desire ' and ' purpose ', they used it to legitimize them by giving them operational definitions ... the initial, quite radical operationalist ideas eventually came to serve as little more than a ' reassurance fetish ' ( Koch 1992 ) for mainstream methodological practice.
Instead, the Ottoman Navy spent the first two months of the war in operations against the Bulgarians in the Black Sea, giving the Greeks valuable time to complete their preparations and allowing them to consolidate their control of the Aegean.
Instead, it is often used in preliminary work, setting up a scene, giving the improviser an unexpected and unpredictable scene.
Instead of giving his karaoke machines away, Inoue leased them out so that stores did not have to buy new songs on their own.
Instead of admitting defeat, Robert-Houdin, irked at the friend's affrontery, used this insult to regain his courage, and persevered in giving the show a long run at his little theatre.
Instead of giving tithes to the priests and sacrificing offerings at the ( now-destroyed ) Temple, the rabbis instructed Jews to give charity.
Instead, they relied upon technology to pour the brains of departed Heechee into data storage, giving them a limited immortality.
Instead, Sextus advocates simply giving up belief: that is, suspending judgment about whether or not anything is knowable.
Instead of telling him that the manuscript has been found, Gabler encourages him to commit suicide, giving him a pistol.
Instead of struggling against misanthropy ( as in The Recognitions ) or reluctantly giving ground to it ( as in JR ), Carpenter's Gothic wallows in it.
Instead he claims that the politeness and gift giving would have been unthinkable without the presences of fashionable men of letters, which attracted to her salon the finest representatives of the Parisian and European aristocracy, and which permitted her to appear as a protector of talents and an accomplished socialite.
Instead of giving up on the competitive model, a number of bands have instead turned to the concert stage to supplement their competitive activities.
Instead, the Ottoman Navy spent the first two months of the war in operations against the Bulgarians in the Black Sea, giving the Greeks valuable time to complete their preparations and allowing them to consolidate their control of the Aegean.
" Instead, they became known simply as " Her Highness Princess Helena Victoria " and " Her Highness Princess Marie Louise ," giving them the odd distinction of being Princesses but not Princesses of any family or monarchy.
Instead of using enclosed tracks for races, the game uses various checkpoints on the free roam map as the pathway of the race, giving the player the option to take various shortcuts or any other route to the checkpoints of the race.
Instead, Rutherford suggested that a large amount of the atom's charge and mass is instead concentrated into a very physically small ( as compared with the size of the atom ) region, giving it a very high electric field.
Instead, Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull used the resolution as a pretext for giving Japan the required six months ' notice of intent to cancel the treaty, beginning the policy of putting pressure on Japan that led to the Attack on Pearl Harbor.
Instead of the live show being primarily a comedy show with a few musical cameos, the event made a point of giving equal emphasis to the comedy and the music.
He wanted to live in a world where there was truth, and human dignity, and, yes, love .… Instead of giving up on it, he imposed his reality onto the real world.
Instead and bonuses
Instead, the referee may declare ad-hoc bonuses to task checks under certain situations ; for instance a character might get a + 2 bonus on an Acrobatic skill check if their Dexterity characteristic was 10 or better.
Instead, he joined Rishton Cricket Club in the Lancashire League where the pay was better than in any form of county cricket, largely because of match bonuses and collections.
Instead of receiving generic increases in rank as in Civilization III, the player is allowed to " promote " units with upgrades that provide bonuses in certain situations.
Instead of filling a group of four pads to maximize a captain's level, the player may opt to build one or more monuments that grant bonuses to all unit types produced from adjacent buildings.
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" Instead, they said, " we should be grateful to Mr. Fleming for providing a conveniently accessible safety-valve for the boiling sensibility of modern man.
Instead of worrying about Onslaught, the Avengers questioned Franklin's credibility, as Franklin claimed to be the son of both Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman.
Instead of reading the name of the winner, who happened to be John Denver, he set fire to the envelope with a cigarette lighter, before announcing the award had gone to " My friend Mr. John Denver.
Instead, while Oliver is forced by Sikes to help him burgle a house, Nancy goes directly to Mr. Brownlow to warn him of the plot against the boy, and Fagin dispatches the Artful Dodger instead of Noah Claypole ( who appears only in the early scenes ) to spy on her.
They began writing original material for the band and also wrote " Mr Heartbreak's Here Instead " for Dean Ford and the Gaylords ( later to become Marmalade ).
Instead, he is taken under the wing by an old Chinese man called Mr. Lee ( Mako ), the sly uncle of his teacher.
Instead, the popularity of " Mr. Moonjelly in the yellow suit " caught on and invitations came from schools nationwide.
Instead it carried quotes from reviews for In the Mayor's Parlour by J. S. Fletcher whilst the back flap carried the same for The Perilous Transactions of Mr. Collin by Frank Heller.
Instead, she takes her daughter to the dentist, Mr. Myers, who takes great pleasure in removing the quills.
Instead, he was educated almost entirely by association and study with a neighbor named Mr. McDaniel.
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