Instead of picking up a newspaper, or watching the 10 o ' clock news, people can log onto the internet to get the news they want, when they want it.

Instead of picking the most competent musicians he could find, he encouraged anyone to join, regardless of talent, ability and experience.

Instead of picking up his name, they picked up my name and sent me the information.

Instead of picking up where the novelisation Licence to Kill left off, Brokenclaw completely ignores the story's events and continues from Win, Lose or Die.

Instead of the photographer picking a shutter speed to freeze or blur motion and choosing a lens aperture f-stop to control depth of field ( focus ), the A-1 has a microprocessor programmed to automatically select a compromise exposure based on light meter input.

Instead, he hit zero home runs and finished in last place, and was jeered by the Kansas City fans for not picking the Royals ' Billy Butler to participate in the competition.

Instead of picking up Pee Wee, the two officers are cornered by the extremely intoxicated Steve who tries in vain to scare them before he passing out on the hood of their squad car.

Instead, hydrogen and these other molecules are detected using other wavelengths of light.

Instead of the 450 – 750 nanometer range of the visible light camera, infrared cameras operate in wavelengths as long as 14, 000 nm ( 14 µm ).

Instead, that honor probably goes to his generalization that certain molecular groupings, or functional groups in modern parlance, appeared to absorb specific and characteristic IR wavelengths.

Instead, readers should allow a text to be interpreted in terms of the language as " author.

Instead, agrarianism points to a collection of political, philosophical, and literary ideas that together tend to describe farm life in ideal terms.

Instead, these substances are discussed in terms of formula units or unit cells as the smallest repeating structure within the substance.

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, terms such as, meaning " prohibited to those not yet 18 years old ", and are used.

Instead of “ absolute ” and “ definitive ”, Dupuis speaks in terms of “ constitutive ” and “ universal ”.

Instead of " lesbian ", terms such as " strange ", " twilight ", " queer ", and " third sex ", were used in the titles, and cover art was invariably salacious.

Instead, one tends to think in terms of the various processes, tasks, and objects subject to management.

Instead, a student's performance is related in absolute terms: " Jane knows how to write the letters of the alphabet " or " Jane answered 80 % of questions correctly " instead of " Jane answered more questions correctly than Mary.

Instead, the question is which " portrait " is judged by some set of people to promise the most useful in terms of scientific " puzzle solving ".

Instead, Cauchy formulated calculus in terms of geometric ideas and infinitesimals.

Instead, he argues that multiculturalism is in fact " not about minorities " but " is about the proper terms of relationship between different cultural communities ", which means that the standards by which the communities resolve their differences, e. g., " the principles of justice " must not come from only one of the cultures but must come " through an open and equal dialogue between them.

Instead producers could manipulate sounds to an unprecedented degree and producers like Spector and Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance.

Instead of viewing meaning in terms of models of the world, they view it in terms of mental spaces.

Instead he spent his energies on the administration of his diocese, but remained on good terms with the king.

Instead, it was convened by Arthur Griffith as “ Chairman of the Irish Delegation of Plenipotentiaries ” ( who had signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty ) under the terms of the Treaty.

Instead, Exim separates the components out in terms of invocation and has well-defined stages during which it gains or loses privileges.

Instead the terms " city centre " or " downtown " are used, more or less synonymously.

Instead, the change in energy for a given change in occupation of states contains terms both linear and quadratic in ( for the Fermi gas, it would only be linear,, where denotes the single-particle energies ).

Instead, by combining with a base character, they signal the two character sequence selects a variation ( typically in terms of grapheme, but also in terms of underlying meaning as in the case of a location name or other proper noun ) of the base character.

Instead, for researchers in the social identity tradition " a group is defined in terms of those who identify themselves as members of the group ".

Instead, English-speaking scientists normally use the terms ecosystems or communities.

Instead, Universal said that it would market music to Apple at will, allowing it to remove its songs from the iTunes service on short notice if the two sides did not agree on pricing or other terms.

Instead, minimum wage standards in different sectors are set by collective bargaining.

Instead, the sunspot cycle in 2010 was still at its minimum, where it should have been near its maximum, which shows the Sun's current unusual low activity.

Instead, lighting effects and the bare minimum of scenery were used to complement Wagner's music.

Instead, the contestant was allowed to play for a minimum of $ 500 as a consolation ; this was doubled to $ 1000 once the payoff structure for the Audience Match was changed.

Instead, it defines a minimum standard of hardware capabilities which must be supported for a display system to be " Direct3D 10 compatible ".

Instead, the Eastern Church has emphasized the role of the Holy Spirit in the Christian's life and has maintained ascetic disciplines such as fasting and prayer ( the minimum fast obligatory on Orthodox faithful is two days weekly ), not as a way to make satisfaction for past sins or to build up merit, but as a means of spiritual discipline to help reduce one's susceptibility to temptation in the future to exercise self control, and to avoid being enslaved to one's passions and desires.

Instead, it may simply be the minimum amount of force required to stop the criminal, which may be lethal even for relatively small crimes.

Instead, the ampere figure is preceded by a letter " B ", " C " or " D " that indicates the instantaneous tripping current, that is the minimum value of current that causes the circuit-breaker to trip without intentional time delay ( i. e., in less than 100 ms ), expressed in terms of I < sub > n </ sub >:

Instead, the Tories essentially went dormant for the next two election cycles ; with a select group running the minimum number of candidates necessary to keep the party alive, while its assets were held in trust.

Instead, proteins spend the majority of their folding time – nearly 96 % in some cases – " waiting " in various intermediate conformational states, each a local thermodynamic free energy minimum in the protein's energy landscape.

Instead, Thurston's data did not indicate such a pronounced minimum of friction for a liquid lubricated journal bearing as was demonstrated by the graphs of Martens and Stribeck.

Instead, we introduce the concept of minimum degree.

Instead of joining the military for six months full-time, one of the alternatives was to join a non-combatant volunteer organisation within the German Katastrophenschutz ( disaster relief ) or Zivilschutz ( civil defense ) for a minimum of four years ( this is calculated so that although serving far less time every week, in the end the number of served hours was about the same ).

Instead of a single playfield mode with 20 or 40 bits of resolution, the CTIA / ANTIC can display six text modes and eight graphics modes with various resolutions and color depths, allowing the programmer to select a mode with the minimum memory needs they required for their display.

Instead they generally implemented the bare minimum, leading to a profusion of semi-compatible implementations, and eventually, the splitting out of the name " YMODEM " into " XMODEM-1K " and a variety of YMODEMs.

Instead, for Ethernet frames, it adds a 32-bit field between the source MAC address and the EtherType / Length fields of the original frame, extending the minimum and maximum frame sizes from 64 and 1, 518 bytes ( octets ) to 64 and 1, 522 bytes ( 42 octet minimum applies when 802. 1Q is present.

Instead, a logarithmic approximation may be achieved for the minimum number of vertex guards by reducing the problem to a set cover problem.

Instead of par value, some U. S. states allow no-par stocks to have a stated value, set by the board of directors of the corporation, which serves the same purpose as par value in setting the minimum legal capital that the corporation must have after paying any dividends or buying back its stock.