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Instead and struggling
Instead, Coleman said he'd give his struggling American Flyer Co. to Gilbert in return for a share of the profits.
Instead, she found herself caught in a mob of screaming, struggling people trying to keep themselves alive.
Instead, the whole Rhapsody team thought of ways to revamp the struggling company and in turn dropped RealNetworks as parent of the company.
Instead of looking at the situation from the point of view of a politician who is either seeking to start a rebellion or struggling to keep the world peaceful, the main character Linghu Chong is a lonely individual who does not seek supremacy in a power-driven world.
: Instead of projecting his spout obliquely forward, and puffing with a short, convulsive effort, accompanied by a snorting noise, as usual with his species, he flung the water from his nose in a lofty, perpendicular, expanded volume, at regular and somewhat distant intervals ; its expulsion producing a continuous roar, like that of vapor struggling from the safety valve of a powerful steam engine.

Instead and against
Instead, it is put in parallel with chapter 4 ( C ) where divine judgements are pronounced against the Babylonian kings.
Instead, the Ottoman Navy spent the first two months of the war in operations against the Bulgarians in the Black Sea, giving the Greeks valuable time to complete their preparations and allowing them to consolidate their control of the Aegean.
Instead, he had to content himself with subduing the fortresses that still held out against him, and the only other notable event of 216 BC was the defection of certain Italian territories, including Capua, the second largest city of Italy, which Hannibal made his new base.
Instead of prompting a backlash against the movement from which the attackers originated, however, Saudi Arabia, already very conservative, responded by shoring up its fundamentalist credentials with even more Islamic restrictions.
Instead, popular opinion is that they were being clandestinely imported for the southern Sudanese army, which has an arms embargo against it.
" Instead of coaching his 1926 team against Carnegie Tech, Rockne traveled to Chicago for the Army – Navy Game to " write newspaper articles about it, as well as select an All-America football team.
Instead, the plate rolls against a cylinder covered with a rubber blanket, which squeezes away the water, picks up the ink and transfers it to the paper with uniform pressure.
Instead, the second coming is symbolic of a " judgment " against Jerusalem that is said to have taken place when the temple in Jerusalem was destroyed in AD 70.
Instead of altering the pitch of the strings in the normal manner ( by pressing the string against frets ), a slide is placed upon the string to vary its vibrating length, and pitch.
Instead of an elf with pointed ears and repulsive goat hooves, we face a child of nature, pure, but tame and fearless and brutal instincts necessary to enable it to defend itself against threats, and survives even without the help of modern civilization.
Instead, it furnishes a criticism or comparison that compares the state and behavior of the product against oracles — principles or mechanisms by which someone might recognize a problem.
Instead Iraq received economic and military support from its allies, who conveniently overlooked Saddam's use of chemical warfare against the Kurds and the Iranians and Iraq's efforts to develop nuclear weapons.
**** Explosively formed penetrator: Instead of turning a thin metal liner into a focused jet, the detonation wave is directed against a concave metal plate at the front of the warhead, propelling it at high velocity while simultaneously deforming it into a projectile.
Instead, Falken and Lightman direct the computer to play tic-tac-toe against itself.
Instead Labor issued instructions that its representatives could wait until after the case against the defendant was established, " in order to protect government interests.
Instead, his insight, compassion, and support is how he helps his friends in the battle against evil ; for example, he brings Willow back from the brink of darkness with his unconditional love in Season Six.
Instead, media owners and their editors used the news-print and broadcast-to spearhead an opposition movement against Chavez.
Instead of arguing for explicit consent, which can always be manufactured, Pettit argues that the absence of an effective rebellion against the contract is the only legitimacy of it.
Instead, males choose the points at which several of the females ' home ranges overlap, creating a much smaller space, which can be properly defended against intruders while maximizing the chance of reproduction.
Instead, the charges against her focused on her systematic persecution of creative artists during the Cultural Revolution.
Instead of receiving a significant patrimony, Thomas was wed in 1625 to Marie de Bourbon, sister and co-heiress of Louis de Bourbon, comte de Soissons, who would be killed in 1641 while fomenting rebellion against Cardinal Richelieu.
Instead of receiving a significant patrimony, Thomas was wed in 1625 to Marie de Bourbon, sister and co-heiress of Louis de Bourbon, comte de Soissons, who would be killed in 1641 while fomenting rebellion against Cardinal Richelieu.
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, he turned against Poland-Lithuania, which was formally neutral at this point, thereby disregarding Polish negotiation proposals supported by the Swedish parliament.
Instead, his subordinate officers testified, and their candid admissions that they had no knowledge of specific strategies for advancing against the Confederates raised many calls for McClellan's dismissal.

Instead and reluctantly
Instead, believing the cardinals as well as the Roman people were of one mind in their desire to have Odescalchi as their Pope, Louis reluctantly instructed the French party cardinals to acquiesce in his candidacy.
Instead of going home, she decides to stay at the school with Bart ; although Marge and the school's Commandant are both originally against the idea, they reluctantly agree to let her attend.

Instead and giving
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.
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 of giving a sermon, the priest calls out K .' s name.
Instead, it is often used in preliminary work, setting up a scene, giving the improviser an unexpected and unpredictable scene.
Instead of giving his karaoke machines away, Inoue leased them out so that stores did not have to buy new songs on their own.
* Electric Food Dehydrator: " Instead of giving kids candy, give them apple snacks or banana chips.
Instead of admitting defeat, Robert-Houdin, irked at the friend's affrontery, used this insult to regain his courage, and persevered in giving the show a long run at his little theatre.
Instead of giving tithes to the priests and sacrificing offerings at the ( now-destroyed ) Temple, the rabbis instructed Jews to give charity.
Instead, they relied upon technology to pour the brains of departed Heechee into data storage, giving them a limited immortality.
Instead they extract more nutrition from grass by giving their food a second pass through the gut.
Instead, Sextus advocates simply giving up belief: that is, suspending judgment about whether or not anything is knowable.
Instead of telling him that the manuscript has been found, Gabler encourages him to commit suicide, giving him a pistol.
Instead he claims that the politeness and gift giving would have been unthinkable without the presences of fashionable men of letters, which attracted to her salon the finest representatives of the Parisian and European aristocracy, and which permitted her to appear as a protector of talents and an accomplished socialite.
Instead of giving up on the competitive model, a number of bands have instead turned to the concert stage to supplement their competitive activities.
Instead, the Ottoman Navy spent the first two months of the war in operations against the Bulgarians in the Black Sea, giving the Greeks valuable time to complete their preparations and allowing them to consolidate their control of the Aegean.
Instead, he returned to Vienna, giving concerts along his route.
" Instead, they became known simply as " Her Highness Princess Helena Victoria " and " Her Highness Princess Marie Louise ," giving them the odd distinction of being Princesses but not Princesses of any family or monarchy.
Instead of using enclosed tracks for races, the game uses various checkpoints on the free roam map as the pathway of the race, giving the player the option to take various shortcuts or any other route to the checkpoints of the race.
Instead, Rutherford suggested that a large amount of the atom's charge and mass is instead concentrated into a very physically small ( as compared with the size of the atom ) region, giving it a very high electric field.
Instead, Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull used the resolution as a pretext for giving Japan the required six months ' notice of intent to cancel the treaty, beginning the policy of putting pressure on Japan that led to the Attack on Pearl Harbor.
Instead, the Cubs ended up surrendering eight runs in the inning, giving up the lead.
Instead of the live show being primarily a comedy show with a few musical cameos, the event made a point of giving equal emphasis to the comedy and the music.
He wanted to live in a world where there was truth, and human dignity, and, yes, love .… Instead of giving up on it, he imposed his reality onto the real world.

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