Instead of cutting, long swords were then used more to thrust against opponents in plate armour, requiring a more acute point and a more rigid blade.

Instead of the rigid north-south grid of the township and range system, in 1854, Silverton's founder Polly Coon Price, planned the town around a large old Oregon White Oak, locating the town square around it.

Instead of sewing, the graft tube ends, made rigid and expandable by nitinol wireframe, can be easily inserted in its reduced diameter into the vascular stumps and then expanded up to the most appropriate diameter and permanently fixed there by external ligature.

Instead, removal is done to: ( 1 ) break the continuity of the rigid ring of the spinal canal to allow the soft tissues within the canal to expand ( decompression ), or ( 2 ) as one step in changing the contour of the vertebral column, or ( 3 ) in order to allow the surgeon access to deeper tissues inside the spinal canal.

Instead, the pilot just grabs the lifting surface by hand ( using a rigid frame that hangs from its underside ) and moves it.

Jeff Terich of Treblezine stated, " Instead of sticking to hardcore's rigid constraints, these artists expanded beyond power chords and gang vocals, incorporating more creative outlets for punk rock energy.

Instead, it describes in what sense the adjective rigid is typically used in mathematics, by mathematicians.

Instead of using dance as spectacle as Busby Berkeley did, Astaire used it to move the plot along.

Instead Newton studied the accounts of ancient writers like Pliny to obtain the approximate size and location of the memorial, then bought a plot of land in the most likely location.

Instead, he conspired with Fujiwara no Yoshitsugu, Isonokami Yakatsugu and Saeki no Imaemishi to plot the assassination of Fujiwara no Nakamaro.

Instead, by acting calm, they would suspect that there is a plot and thus hesitate, allowing their forces to quietly withdraw.

Instead, the end of the film abandons the “ acausal ” plot by returning to the easy-to-believe narrative, that which paints Harris as the perpetrator.

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.

Instead of a single central plot, there are a number of interlinked storylines and recurring themes.

Instead, the film features an unrelated plot with no connection to the first two films.

Instead, he put forward a theory of the novel as focused on objects: the ideal nouveau roman would be an individual version and vision of things, subordinating plot and character to the details of the world rather than enlisting the world in their service.

Instead, in 1987, a new director, Alfonso Brescia, wrote and directed the third Ator film, Iron Warrior, which follows the same loose plot as Ator l ' invincible 2.

Instead of the damsel-in-distress plot of Renegade, Kunio-kun instead featured the titular high school student,, standing up for his bullied friend Hiroshi.

" Roger Ebert, of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote, " Instead of pumping up the plot with recycled manufactured thrills, it's content to contemplate two reasonably sane adults who get themselves into an almost insoluble dilemma.

Instead of silently taking heart, the prisoner revealed the conversation to Nero, the conspirator was tortured, and the plot was betrayed.

Instead of having identical sons, however, the new Newsboy Legion were now said to be clones, created by the same technology that recreated the Guardian, as part of an Apokolips plot that went wrong.

Instead, Somoza ordered a plot to entice Ayax to escape using an opening in the ceiling of his cell, which he did.

Instead, the game operates on two levels: a higher level in which the two players use pencil marks on pre-printed paper maps of the North Sea to plot movements of their fleets, and, once fleets come into contact, a lower level in which the players deploy cardboard pieces each representing a single capital ship or a flotilla of light cruisers or destroyers on any convenient flat ( and large ) surface.

Instead of simply using a product as a prop or background filler, the product will be woven into the plot or dialogue of the program.

Instead, it comes off as a convenient plot device.

Instead of transferring the weight of the bridge and traffic loads into thrust forces into the abutments, the ends of the arches are restrained by tension in the bottom chord of the structure.

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

Instead of focusing merely on the individual objects ( e. g., groups ) possessing a given structure, category theory emphasizes the morphisms – the structure-preserving mappings – between these objects ; by studying these morphisms, we are able to learn more about the structure of the objects.

Instead, with the topology of compact convergence, C ( a, b ) can be given the structure of a Fréchet space: a locally convex topological vector space whose topology can be induced by a complete translation-invariant metric.

Instead, its existence and properties are inferred from its gravitational effects on visible matter, radiation, and the large scale structure of the universe.

Instead, in yeast, it has been shown to be dependent on a multiprotein tethering structure termed the ER-mitochondria encounter structure, or ERMES, although it remains unclear whether this structure directly mediates lipid transfer or is required to keep the membranes in sufficiently close proximity to lower the energy barrier for lipid flipping.

Instead, the entire structure is assembled, inserted into its metal envelope, sealed and processed in a large vacuum chamber with simple robotic devices.

Instead, astrophysicists come to understand how stars evolve by observing numerous stars at various points in their lifetime, and by simulating stellar structure using computer models.

Instead the Winteraceae were considered to be a primitive family ( due to the structure of the xylem and carpel, a structure which now seems to be derived from xylem and carpels more typical of the angiosperms as a whole ).

Instead, the Phoenix entity copied Grey's identity and form, keeping her safe in a cocoon-like structure beneath Jamaica Bay.

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, in the center building of the Temple of Heaven, in a structure called the " Imperial Vault of Heaven ", a " spirit tablet " ( 神位, or shénwèi ) inscribed with the name of Shangdi is stored on the throne, Huangtian Shangdi ( 皇天上帝 ).

Instead of phrase structure rules ATNs used an equivalent set of finite state automata that were called recursively.

Instead, substrate-binding at one subunit only slightly alters the structure of other subunits so that their binding sites are more receptive to substrate.

Instead, Wyatt added a tower-like structure ( a hamper ) to provide bedrooms for the servants.

Instead of positing a rich innate and universal syntactic structure ( see Universal Grammar ), Van Valin suggests that the only truly universal parts of a sentence are its nucleus, generally a predicating element such as a verb or adjective, and the arguments, normally noun phrases, that the nucleus requires.

Instead of following the original ad hoc layout ( seven churches around the central core ), Ivan's architects opted for a more symmetrical floor plan with eight side churches around the core, producing " a thoroughly coherent, logical plan " despite the erroneous latter " notion of a structure devoid of restraint or reason " influenced by the memory of Ivan's irrational atrocities.

Instead, the most anterior portion ends in a funnel-shaped structure called the infundibulum, which collects eggs as they are released by the ovary into the body cavity.

Instead of just a listing of provisions, it had a structure of chapters, sections, and articles.

Instead the structure is designed to aid the playing of chords, which makes sense when one considers the origin of the instrument and its intended purpose.

Instead, the position of a voxel is inferred based upon its position relative to other voxels ( i. e., its position in the data structure that makes up a single volumetric image ).