Instead, they challenged every prosecution theory and witness, offering alternative explanations for the evidence.

Instead it affirms that all creation was made good, and while it has since become corrupt, it is being redeemed by continually offering it back to God.

Instead the Society operates effectively as a market regulator, setting rules under which members operate and offering centralised administrative services to those members.

Instead of offering the essence of a story up front, feature writers may attempt to lure readers in.

Instead of friendship, Lord Darlington takes advantage of Lady Windermere's tragic state and professes his love to her, offering her his life, and inviting her to risk short-term social humiliation for a new life with him.

Instead Premium TV chose to launch a channel with the working title of Classic Sport, offering classic BBC sports footage from the Grandstand archives, the channel never materialised.

Instead of violence, the soldiers were greeted with hundreds of skipping and singing children offering them food.

Instead of a libation of blood, the nanny puts tomato ketchup into the offering, creating the world's first vegetarian vampire duck.

Instead of blood, the nanny puts tomato ketchup into the offering, creating the current 17th Count Duckula.

Instead of operating the service areas themselves, the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission opted to lease them out to Standard Oil of Pennsylvania ( which was acquired shortly afterwards by the modern-day Exxon ), which in turn operated a gas station with a garage, and Howard Johnson's franchises as a restaurant offering.

Instead of offering new policies the party believed that its record in government would be enough to retain power.

Instead, they typically differentiate themselves by offering better interest rates and online banking features.

Instead, the school gains name recognition by offering 21 one-week summer camps annually in locations across the United States.

Instead, these " republican conservatives " preferred the American federal-state system and the US constitution, seeing the American model of checks and balances as offering Canada a more fair and conservative form of democracy.

Instead of offering direct relief, the societies addressed the cycle of poverty.

Instead, they drop into the clutches of an international syndicate offering a first-hand torturing and killing experience to the sadistic pleasure of rich tourists.

Instead of trays with lamps placed upon them with incense and other offerings, the skies become an integrated platter, the sun and moon the lamps, stars the beads, and all vegetation an offering of flowers.

Instead, they felt that this good luck item would simply allow them to be in the position to inflict the greatest damage upon the enemy before offering their life up in battle.

Instead of offering incentives to attract business, they may be willing to pay to come to a community because it ’ s a good place to live, work, shop and play.

Instead of offering a more typical treatment of laws, institutions and important political achievements, the book took a decidedly poetic turn, portraying Frederick as an idealized spiritual, as much as political, leader of the German nation.

Instead, Sinclair's commentary stated that when many countries faced economic crises or natural disasters, Americans were among the most generous people in the world at offering assistance, but when America faced a crisis, it often faced that crisis alone.

Instead, providence is a power that emanates from the heavens to the sublunar region, and is responsible for the generation and destruction of earthly things, without any direct involvement in the lives of individuals.

Instead Gorbachev chose political liberalization during the years leading to the collapse of the USSR, while not implementing any significant economic reforms.

Instead, he stated that what gods there may be, do not concern themselves with us, and thus would not seek to punish us either in this or any other life.

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 they quickly spend any money they receive, which rapidly increases the velocity of money flow, which in turn causes further acceleration in prices.

Instead of suggesting that the mechanical properties of objects changed with their constant-velocity motion through an undetectable aether, Einstein proposed to deduce the characteristics that any successful theory must possess in order to be consistent with the most basic and firmly established principles, independent of the existence of a hypothetical aether.

Instead, the Renaissance motet is a polyphonic musical setting, sometimes in imitative counterpoint, for chorus, of a Latin text, usually sacred, not specifically connected to the liturgy of a given day, and therefore suitable for use in any service.

Instead, the isotope must be prepared first, then afterward, the chemistry to prepare any organic radiotracer ( such as FDG ) accomplished very quickly, in the short time before the isotope decays.

Instead, it indicates that the archives are the Pope's personal property, not belonging to those of any particular department of the Roman Curia or the Holy See.

Instead of the standard American system of primary elections to choose each party's candidate, followed by a general election contest between the winners of the primaries, the Louisiana primary allows voters to select any candidate, regardless of party affiliation.

Instead, it is used as a base for almost any food which needs a lot of tomato flavor, including versions of many of the sauces described on this page.

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, it simply held "... we need go no further than to state that we perceive nothing in the overtime and minimum-wage requirements of the FLSA ... that is destructive of state sovereignty or violative of any constitutional provision.

Instead, he pursues active naval warfare and reduces any danger from the island of Aegina by replacing its native population with Athenians.

Instead of reading any sized vector several times as in the STAR, the Cray-1 would have to read only a portion of the vector at a time, but it could then run several operations on that data prior to writing the results back to memory.

Instead of turning on the receive audio for any signal, the audio turns on only in the presence of the correct selective calling code.

Instead, they hold that moral claims are derived either from an unsupported belief that there are objective moral facts ( error theory, a form of moral nihilism ); the speakers ' sentiments ( emotivism, a form of moral relativism ); or any one of the norms prevalent in society ( ethical subjectivism, another form of moral relativism ).

Instead, where possible, definitions of the base units were developed so that any laboratory equipped with proper instruments would be able to construct their own copies of the standard.

Instead, the matter would be directly determined by a meeting of the AFL Commission, and any punishment Hird would receive would result directly from that meeting.

Instead, Bentham is calling upon legislators to measure the pleasures and pains associated with any legislation and to form laws in order to create the greatest good for the greatest number.

Instead of complying, he resigned his position as superintendent and returned to the North, declaring to the governor of Louisiana, " On no earthly account will I do any act or think any thought hostile ... to the ... United States.

Instead they proposed a rule based on a partially computable process which having read any N elements of the sequence, decides if it wants to select another element which has not been read yet.

Instead it was claimed Raeder was opposed to war with the United States and had always worked to protect neurtal shipping during the war with the committee having Raeder say: " We had to consider neutrals to avoid any possible unfortunate incidents " at sea.