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Instead of seeking to sell for gold as the company's directors intended, the Drummonds exchanged the goods for slaves which they sold in Madagascar.
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Instead of lobbying because of the impact the absence of legislation was having on their trade, they lobbied on behalf of the authors, but seeking the same things.
Instead he and Margeret travelled to Greece, seeking out Heinrich Schliemann at Athens.
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Instead the CWI has adopted a range of tactics, mostly seeking to build independent parties, but in some cases working within other broad working-class parties.
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Instead of seeking out prosecutors at the Justice Department, or the House Judiciary Committee charged with investigating presidential wrongdoing, he methodically leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein to guide their investigation while keeping his own identity and involvement safely concealed.
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Instead of initially placing a bid for the Milwaukee Road and seeking immediate ICC approval GTW embarked on a strategy to improve the line ’ s revenue and track maintenance.
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Instead, the people should retreat into introspection, seeking to learn more about themselves so that they could grow in wisdom and strength.
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Instead and sell
Instead, the law compelled the authorities to sell gold bullion on demand at a fixed price, but only in the form of bars containing approximately four hundred troy ounces of fine gold.
Instead, IBM offered to sell a PS / 2 licence to anyone who could afford the royalty.
Instead of the government taking all agricultural surpluses with no compensation, the farmers now had the option to sell their surplus yields, and therefore had an incentive to produce more grain.
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Instead, they must sell their shares to another investor in the market ; the price they receive may be significantly different from net asset value.
Instead of updating the Telecaster, Fender decided, based on customer feedback, to leave the Telecaster as it was and design a new, upscale solid body guitar to sell alongside the basic Telecaster.
Instead, he hoped to sell his newly-produced sculptures and brush paintings from Asia.
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Instead, those with topsoil rights paid the subsoil landlord a fixed rent ( or part of the proceeds of what was produced on the land ) for not only the right to farm and live on the land, but the right to independently sell or lease the topsoil rights to another party.
Instead it may choose to buy carbon credits on the open market from organizations that have been approved as being able to sell legitimate carbon credits.
Instead of throwing out the LPs, Ampex decided to sell them anyway, unmarked, as a sort of surprise to the purchaser.
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Instead of receiving the usual documents acknowledging debt he demanded " Kuxe ", essentially becoming a shareholder in the mines, and through this forcing more and more mine operators in the area of Gastein and Schladming to sell their silver directly to the Fugger family instead of intermediary traders.
Instead of caring for Nicholas, Sir Ivor had actually brought Nicholas to New Zealand so that he could ' sell ' Nicholas to the highest bidder — Russian Bolsheviks, who want to take Nicholas back to Russia with them so that Nicholas, the last surviving member of the Russian Royal Family, can be publicly executed.
Instead, to ease his financial plight, he began to sell off land in 1870 until only two and a half acres remained his surrounding Elmwood.
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Instead of giving themselves spontaneously to the orgiastic release that jazz can give them, they undergo psychoanalysis or flirt with mysticism or turn to prostitutes for satisfaction.
Instead it means that the thinking in which decision issues has the power to determine the morality of the decision, as in this instance the pressure for renewed practical or legislative attention to the constitutional problems the decision had uncovered might have done.
Instead she waited for Alfred to get better and take care of her.
Instead of wanting to sock the poor bastard I found myself having a fellowfeeling for him.
Instead of motels, for the boatman there are marinas.
Instead, he whirled and ran to his house for a gun, forcing them to kill him, Cook reported.
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Instead they urged their urban sympathizers to vote for Labour candidates, as the representatives of the urban working class.
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Instead, the council deposed him and tried him for heresy, simony, schism and immorality, finding him guilty on all counts.
Instead of the Acht Orte appointing a bailiff together, Zurich and Bern each appointed the governor for 7 out of 16 years while Glarus appointed him for the remaining 2 years.
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Instead, the forms of service that were to be included in the Book of Common Prayer were drawn from the Missal ( for the Mass ), Breviary for the daily office, Manual ( for the occasional services ; Baptism, Marriage, Burial etc.
Instead of the banning of all vestments save the rochet ( for bishops ) and the surplice for parish clergy, it permitted ' such ornaments ... as were in use ... in the second year of K. Edward VI '.
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