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Instead and kicking
Instead of kicking a field goal, Minnesota attempted to convert the fourth down with another running play by Reed.
Instead of a conventional kicking strap it features a gnav system, which pushes down on the boom from the top, instead of pulling from the bottom.

Instead and feet
Instead, a single-lane road crosses the New River on a single-track railroad bridge, crosses the main line, and climbs the hill behind the town so that it parallels the town 150 feet higher on the hill before dropping down next to the tracks.
Instead of sloping back, the car's trunk stood upright in a more traditional shape, increasing trunk space by another two cubic feet.
Instead, dancers keep their upper body still, poised and relaxed while the feet execute endless intricacies.
Instead, the particles bounce along the ground, rarely reaching higher than a few feet above the earth.
Instead, the use of declared distances reduces the mathematical length of Runway 9 ( west to east operations ) by declaring that the eastern most end of Runway 9 is 1, 121 feet shorter than it actually is ( a net length of 8, 280-feet ).
Instead, Inspiration 1 quickly ascends to an altitude of 15, 000 feet ( 4, 572 m ).
Instead, the builders made many awkward adjustments in order to use shafts 40 Roman feet tall and capitals eight Roman feet tall.
Instead, a simple valve at the upper end of the foot helps to control water pressure in the tube feet, along with contraction of the associated canals.
Instead of the latter, a column 250 feet ( 76 m ) high surmounted with a statue of Queen Anne was to have been erected a short distance to the west of the church.
Instead, he looks to use his feet to come down the wicket, or play off the back foot through the off-side.
Instead of taking photographs 30 feet away like Kobriger ( 1965 ), Limb et al.
Instead, it makes the opponent trip over his own feet, so to speak, because capturing the offending piece will necessarily break one line of defense or the other.
Instead, Pyramid wants to take a proposal for 800, 000 square feet to investors.
Instead of being the damsel in distress she is the hero, breaking through a boarded-up window in the belfry, then grabbing a rope and swinging across the room to kill one of The Gentlemen's footmen by smashing her feet into his chest.
Instead, as ore was removed it was replaced by timbers set as a cube six feet on a side.
Instead of the desired 2. 2 % grade ( 116 feet to the mile ) a steep 4. 5 % grade was built in 1884 ( some sources say 4. 4 %).
Instead of using physical contact to activate sensors, it uses optical switches to allow hands, feet and legs to be used in gameplay by passing them above or below the sensor.
Instead, the music stops, Cleese reveals his fish — a much, much larger halibut — and clobbers Palin on the head with it, knocking him into the water several feet below.
Instead of getting tense around the neck when they feel stress, their feet swell.
Instead, in this population, there is a suggestion of more injury in high arched feet.
Instead, space planes — an emerging technology — will use regular runways and jet engines to take off and land, switching to rocket power above 50, 000 feet.
Instead, the Jungle Boot was designed to permit water and perspiration to drain, drying the feet while preventing the entry of insects, mud, or sand.
Instead, it showed preselected Nicktoons with added segments such as " U-Pick " ( viewers pick what show and episode they want to see ) and U-Dip ( viewers pick which substance Stick Stickly is dipped in or any substance at all using their bare feet ).

Instead and neural
Instead of postulating ' pure ' modularity, theorists have opted for a weaker version, domain-specificity implemented in functionally specialised neural circuits and computation ( e. g. Jackendoff and Pinker ’ s ( 2005 ) words, we must investigate language “ not as a monolith but as a combination of components, some special to language, others rooted in more general capacities ” ( p. 223 ).

Instead and responses
Instead of treating every user as client and server, some users were now treated as ultrapeers, routing search requests and responses for users connected to them.
Instead of just studying Halakha, Louis Ginzberg wrote responsa, formal responses to questions of Jewish law.
* Instead of celebrities writing answers and contestants providing verbal responses, MG2 switched the roles, similar to the tiebreaker in Match Game PM.
Instead, the posts discussed time travel in general, the first one being the " six parts " description of what a time machine would need to have to work ( see below ) and responses to questions about how such a machine would work.
Instead, the lions ' replies are always terse responses, often featuring them taking his advice the wrong way by eating a zebra.
Instead Roemer attempted to reach audiences through social media, including tweeting responses to debates in which he could not participate.
Instead the responses to the most recent stimulus contain about equal amounts of information about both this and the preceding stimulus.
Instead, they had, in Vinick's words, " a real debate ," without time limits on their responses.
Instead of an “ implied reader ,” reception theory of landscapes assumes an “ implied visitor ,” who is an abstracted concatenation of responses of many visitors at different times.
Instead of modulating the amplitude of two carrier waves, CAP generates QAM signal by combining two PAM signals filtered through two filters designed so that their impulse responses form a Hilbert pair.
Instead, Gecko Theatre Company focuses on their personal experiences, relationships, and emotional responses to the world for inspiration.
Instead of providing the player with a list of responses showing the exact words that Tex will say, as was customary in adventure games, only descriptions ( often humorous in themselves ) of the responses are given.

Instead and started
Instead of the light being placed at right angles in relation to the line of vision, Both started moving it to a diagonal position from the back of the picture.
Instead of generating broad demographic profiles and psycho-graphic profiles of market segments, marketers have started to engage in personalized marketing, permission marketing, and mass customization.
Instead, he finished Tintin in Tibet, started the year before.
Instead, Jackson started work on a new " third generation " role-playing system.
Instead, countries started to realize the gains from trade cooperation.
Instead of trying to be courted by the major labels, hardcore bands started their own independent record labels and distributed their records themselves.
Instead, a move to weaken communist party leaders through conflict was started.
Instead, he gained the ear of professors at Laval University in Quebec City, and Bull and a number of graduate students started work on a tunnel similar to the one he had earlier built at the UofT.
Instead, Welch moved back to California, found a place in Los Angeles, California, and started making the rounds of the movie studios.
Instead of starting with empirical data, he started with a classical economic model following very simple economic principles.
Instead, the negotiations to part ways with Epic after ten years were started.
Instead they created a program called the Sustainable Coffee Program ; the first program was launched in Guatemala and in 2006 they started programs in Colombia and Brazil where they are " directly involved with coffee producing communities by providing direct financial assistance for technical training to improve the quantity and quality of coffee produced and assist farmers in getting their coffee to market at the best time and for the best price.
Instead of Gloria Foster having to audition for roles, people started to make parts for her to be in.
Instead, Murong Chui himself rebelled in early 384, which started a chain reaction of many Xianbei and Qiang uprisings.
Instead, they started looking for more professors to teach computer courses.
Instead of getting a job as a scientist, Kelly, his brother, and his brother-in-law started a dry goods and commission business, which they called McShane & Kelly.
Instead of the " communism versus capitalism " dichotomy that had dominated the political discourse in the 1990s, in the 1999 — 2000 electoral cycle Putin started to emphasize another reason to vote for his party: stability, which was yearned for by Russian citizens after a decade of chaotic revolutionary change.
Instead, he started sending sketches to famous couture stylists at an early age.
Instead of a straight penalty kick, the shoot-out started 35 yards from the goal and having five seconds to attempt a shot.
Instead of signing to a record label, the band started their own, Chemikal Underground, on which they released their own records and also some from other local bands, among them Mogwai and Arab Strap.
Instead, some episodes start at 8: 58 p. m., while others start at 9: 05 p. m. Before television ratings started to matter, episodes started exactly on the hour.
Instead of covering more traditional doo-wop songs, The Bobs started out with original arrangements of their own songs and songs like " Helter Skelter " ( The Beatles ) and " Psycho Killer " ( Talking Heads ).
Instead, he started his own foundation, The Joyce Foundation, to administer his personal philanthropic work.

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