Instead, he would send them over fifty postcards from all over the world, informing them that he was fine, but on none of them did he leave a return address so that they could contact him.

Instead of informing his allies, Liang Xing attacked Xu and Zhu right away, but was routed in the end.

Instead, the Byzantines offered peace, informing him of both the Byzantine foot and maritime campaign, but intentionally did not notify him of the planned Magyar attack.

Instead, on May 8, Dorian received a phone call from de Portago's mother Olga, informing Dorian that Fon's tire on his Ferrari race car had blown up because he did not stop in time for a tire change.

Instead of informing the president's staff with reports directly concerning Chirac, Cousseran informed only Socialist prime minister Lionel Jospin just as he was making it clear that he would run against Chirac in the 2002 presidential election.

Instead, in 198 BC, the courtier Liu Jing ( 劉敬 ) was dispatched for negotiations.

Instead of directly moving against Zhou Chang and Liu Ruyi, though, Lü Zhi circumvented Zhou by first summoning him to Chang ' an, and then summoning Liu Ruyi.

Instead of directly moving against Zhou and Liu Ruyi, though, Lü circumvented Zhou by first summoning him to the capital, and then summoning Liu Ruyi.

Instead, Liu Bei had Guan Yu sail ahead down the Han River with a detachment of several hundred ships and take a roundabout route to Jiangling, where they planned to rendezvous.

Instead, in 198 BC, the courtier Liu Jing ( 劉敬 ) was dispatched for negotiations.

Instead of surrendering, Duan Gui kidnapped the Han Emperor Shao of Han and King of Chen Liu ( Liu Xie ) and fled in the direction of Xiao Ping Jin.

Instead, he turned this life situation into an aesthetically shaped, successful drama.

Instead of addressing the situation directly, she foolishly lets her ignorance turn into pettiness and mistreatment of Adeline.

" Instead, Wilde may have transposed his apprehension into Lord Chiltern's ( non-sexual ) blackmailing situation in the darker, political play, An Ideal Husband.

The competitive Rose was sour after the game, blasting Garber and the Braves for treating the situation " like it was the ninth inning of the 7th game of the World Series " Instead of being insulted, Garber took the comment as a compliment: " I said to myself, ' Well, thanks Pete.

Instead of developing a political analysis of the state we live in, instead of undertaking the patient and unsparing job of education which must precede even a pre-revolutionary situation, Oz behaved as though the revolution had already happened.

Instead, by the end of the civil wars in which Julius Caesar had led his armies, it became clear on the one hand that there was certainly no consensus to return to the old-style monarchy, and that on the other hand the situation where several officials, bestowed with equal power by the senate, fought one another had to come to an end.

Instead, it is about a way of being that would cause the person exhibiting the virtue to make a certain " virtuous " choice consistently in each situation.

Instead the Air Guard would be flexible in its response in order to fit the situation.

Instead it retreated north after the battle, easing up the situation for the Swedish army.

Instead, Hanson argues, we should look to the " situation ", both inside of us ( including cognitive biases ) and outside of us ( family, community, social norms, and other environmental factors ) that have a much larger impact on our actions than mere " choice.

Instead of focusing on the individual and his or her personality, or on how the society or social situation causes human behavior, symbolic interactionism focuses on the activities that take place between actors.

Instead it seems likely that, as with the speeches, Thucydides is looser than previously thought in inferring the thoughts, feelings, and motives of principal characters in his History from their actions, as well as his own sense of what would be appropriate or likely in such a situation.

Instead of finally reaching a happy environment and living situation in the end of the novel, this marriage still portrays anti-feminist qualities by leaving Agnes as completely devoted to her husband, without having a life of her own.

Instead of accepting their role in the event, they view themselves as caught up in a situation that was unforeseeable and therefore they are not the culprit, which is referred to as defensive processing, or view the situation as inevitable and that there was nothing that could be done to prevent it, which is retroactive pessimism.

Instead of speaking of a hypothesis of an actor-observer asymmetry, some textbooks and research articles speak of an " actor-observer bias " ( within the framework of dispositional vs. situation causes ).

Instead of inspiring love in ourselves, and thus sympathy, love makes the impartial spectator sensitive to the situation and emotions that may arise from the gain or loss of love.

Instead he responded according to his own interpretation of the situation.

Instead of referring to " fetal distress " current recommendations hold to look for more specific signs and symptoms, assess them, and take the appropriate steps to remedy the situation.

Instead they find a solution for the situation which chooses by a lottery system sometimes five, sometimes eight, sometimes twenty of these men, always calculating the number in this group with reference to the whole unit of offenders so that this group forms one-tenth of all those guilty of cowardice.

Instead of answering directly He would make a vague comment ( such as instructing them to " consider the lily "), pause, then say " ahh " in a mysterious manner, causing all but Matthew ( Herring ) to " ahh " along with Him, leading the disciple to become frustrated with the evasion (" This isn't an ' ahh ' situation "; " Ahh!

Instead of the position name following the player to a different position, a new position name may be applied in such a substitution situation.

Instead of looking at the situation from the point of view of a politician who is either seeking to start a rebellion or struggling to keep the world peaceful, the main character Linghu Chong is a lonely individual who does not seek supremacy in a power-driven world.

Instead of healing the division in the community the Patriarch tried to make use of the situation to establish his authority in the church by suppressing the authority of the Malanakra Metropolitan.

Instead, this caused the situation to escalate further, as the Kōdōha decided that the time was right for direct action, and backed the First Infantry Division in an attempted coup d ' état.

Instead, Rufinus attempted to negotiate with Alaric in person, which only aroused suspicions in Constantinople that Rufinius was in league with the Goths.

Instead of seeking to administer the empire through counts, as Charlemagne had done and as his successors had attempted, Henry allowed the dukes of Franconia, Swabia and Bavaria to maintain complete internal control of their holdings.

Instead, lesbian relationships have often been regarded as harmless and incomparable to heterosexual ones unless the participants attempted to assert privileges traditionally enjoyed by men.

Instead of ordering his driver to speed away, Heydrich called his car to a halt and attempted to take on the attackers.

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 of falling on the loose ball, the Dolphins kicker picked it up, attempted a forward pass, but batted it in the air, and Redskins ' cornerback Mike Bass caught it and returned it 49 yards for a touchdown.

Instead of kicking a field goal, Minnesota attempted to convert the fourth down with another running play by Reed.

Instead, New England attempted to get the winning score in regulation on the final drive.

Instead it was inferred that he had attempted to sow discord between the Empress and her heir and his consort.

Instead the City of China has attempted somewhat unsuccessfully to reinstate the festival.

Instead the Theban commanders harmed no one but attempted to persuade all of the citizens of Plataea to join with Thebes ' allies.

Instead, he attempted to start the strike by allowing each region to call its own strikes, imitating Gormley's strategy over wage reforms ; it was argued that ' safe ' regions should not be allowed to ballot other regions out of jobs.

Instead of repeal, the Chrétien government attempted to restructure the tax and merge it with the provincial sales taxes in each province.

Instead Alfred attempted to turn his son into a gentleman farmer, which he considered a wholesome profession that would yield enough profit to lead a comfortable life, and improve the undersized Edward's health.

" Instead of ramming and sinking the other ships, both sides attempted to board their opponents ' ships and fight what was essentially a land battle at sea.

Instead, they attempted to lend to everyone who would accept their high rates of interest.

Instead of agricultural technology and scale determining and limiting population as Malthus attempted to argue, Boserup argued the world is full of cases of the direct opposite: that population changes and expands agricultural methods.

Instead, it attempted to interest the SLP in a merger.

Instead Roemer attempted to reach audiences through social media, including tweeting responses to debates in which he could not participate.

Instead, he attempted to have a pro-life Pacific Island female doctor appointed to the Committee, but failed, 81 votes to 36.

Instead, this act attempted to exert direct government control over which types of chemicals could and could not be used in actual use and production.

Instead, he attempted to have the Japanese classified as " white.

Instead a display of moral outrage focused on a scene of attempted anal rape of a Druid priest ( played by Greg Hicks ), caught bathing by a Roman centurion ( Peter Sproule ).

Instead, he highlights the contrast between the accounts in the Babylonian Talmud and the Jerusalem Talmud, noting that the Jerusalem Talmud " makes no mention of Elisha's dualism ; but it relates that in the critical period following the rebellion of Bar Kokba, Elisha visited the schools and attempted to entice the students from the study of the Torah, in order to direct their energies to some more practical occupation ; and it is to him, therefore, that the verse ' Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin ' is to be applied.

Instead, the administration attempted to avoid inflationary pressures through creation of a Wage Stabilization Board that sought to keep down the inflation of consumer prices and wages while avoiding labor disputes whenever possible.