Instead of maneuvering to ram, which was the standard naval tactic at the time, corvus equipped ships would maneuver alongside the enemy vessel, deploy the bridge which would attach to the enemy ship through spikes on the end of the bridge, and send legionaries across as boarding parties.

Instead of using " that which promotes my ( human ) life " as his standard of value, he mistakes " that which I ( mindlessly happen to ) value " for a standard of value, in contradiction of the fact that, existentially, he is a human and therefore rational organism.

Instead of calling a user procedure ( cup ), standard procedure q can be called with

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, he cast his ballot for John M. Palmer, the presidential candidate of the National Democratic Party, or Gold Democrats, a short-lived party that supported a gold standard, low tariffs, and limited government.

Instead of following the Fast Ethernet standard for twisted pair cabling by using only 2 pairs of wires, 100VG-AnyLAN used all four pairs in either Category 3 or Category 5 twisted pair cable.

Instead, the plaintiffs extended their argument on the copyright clause to note that the clause requires Congress to " promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts ," and argued that retroactive extensions do not directly serve this purpose in the standard quid pro quo previously required by the courts.

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, standard indicators of the quality of life include not only wealth and employment, but also the built environment, physical and mental health, education, recreation and leisure time, and social belonging.

Instead individuals sit professional examinations which are set at degree level standard and undertake an intense apprenticeship program.

Instead of Y ' UV, Y ' CbCr was used as the standard format for ( digital ) common video compression algorithms such as MPEG-2.

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

Instead they simply bolted an entirely new set of panels onto the bridge on top of the original set, a technique that later became a standard feature.

Instead of everyone falling the same standard distance, the person's height and weight were used to determine how much slack would be provided in the rope so that the distance dropped would be enough to ensure that the neck was broken, but not so much that the person was decapitated.

Instead, it was used as a mobile reserve of the Polish armies and was using mostly infantry tactics: the soldiers dismounted before the battle and fought as a standard ( yet fast ) infantry.

Instead, the ministry wanted to again consider the Ålgård Line as part of the Sørlandet Line, and proposed that the Ålgård Line be built with standard gauge — which would be used for the Sørlandet Line — instead of the narrow gauge used by the Jæren Line.

Instead, TIA-968-A incorporates a standard called T1. TR5-1999, " Network and Customer Installation Interface Connector Wiring Configuration Catalog ", by reference to specify the wiring.

Instead, the simple crown between laurel leaves tied with a ribbon bearing the school motto became the standard crest, though its appearance changed throughout the decades in reflection of current tastes.

Instead of using the standard point-and-click interface of previous games, Loom requires players to use four-note musical tunes to create spells on objects or other characters.

Instead of spending character points, or randomly rolling dice, a character's abilities are determined by drawing cards from a standard 54-card poker deck ( jokers included ), which determine the character's Traits ( their basic attributes ).

* Thin mirrors: Instead of costly Pyrex mirror blanks with the standard 1: 6 thickness ratios ( 1 cm thick for every 6 cm in diameter ) so they won't flex and sag out of shape under their own weight, Dobson used mirrors made out of surplus glass ship porthole covers usually with 1: 16 thickness ratios.

Instead of assessing each standard against each other the Family of Standards can be used as a tool to simplify equivalence assessment procedures while ensuring a high level of integrity and transparency.

Instead of dropping specialized rapid fire pistols, manufacturers designed new pistols, such as the Walther SSP, conforming to the standard pistol requirements, but optimized for the rapid fire event.

Instead of using all three Cartesian coordinates x, y, z ( or other standard coordinate systems ), only one is needed and is completely arbitrary to define the position.

Instead, European sets contain seven additional dominoes, with six of these representing the values that result from throwing a single die with the other half of the tile left blank, and the seventh domino representing the blank-blank ( 0 – 0 ) combination.

Instead, the House elected Adams on the first ballot with thirteen states, followed by Jackson with seven and Crawford with four.

Instead the railroad laid its tracks seven miles east and set up the new town of Hastings, which in September 1878 won a five-year Great County Seat War and became the county seat.

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 of a single mountain, Celestia takes the form of a " range of seven mountains that runs about 120 miles and reaches a height of 10 miles and is surrounded by a narrow sea.

Instead, the First Peace of Kappel protected both Catholic and Reformed worship, though the provisions of the treaty generally favored the Catholics, who also made up a majority among the seven ruling cantons.

Instead, Brady drove the Patriots ' offense down the field to the Rams 31 before spiking the ball with seven seconds left.

Instead, as stated in the paper, it has other suggestions, including investing in a sustained infrastructure program, lasting from five to seven years, to create jobs and demand.

Instead of foiling every card, each expansion would only have eighteen pre-selected rare foil cards that would be randomly inserted now into one in every seven booster packs.

Instead of retiring from politics, Leghari went on to create his own political party, the Millat Party, which entered into a coalition of seven parties, known as the National Alliance, to participate in the general elections of 2002.

Instead, he accepted seven women whom he had taught in the village school and in 1131 founded an order of nuns based on the Cistercian Rule.

Instead, due to political delays, construction did not start until August 11, 1971, and was not finished until August 1975, seven months after Super Bowl IX was scheduled to be played in the stadium.

Instead, he decided to return to America, where he concentrated on his concert career, making only occasional opera appearances during the next seven years.

Instead of initiating production as planned, the Corps asked for seven new prototypes, to address the current deficiencies, which have caused an average of one failure for every four and a half hours of operation.

Instead, it was broken into seven pieces by the Architect's Trustees, the self-named Morrow Days.

Instead, they broke the Architect's Will into seven pieces and locked it up, as they did not want to follow the will, which would entail the destruction of all reality.

Instead of the highest domino winning each trick, the domino whose sum is closest to seven wins.

Instead of the ancestors seen in later depictions, seven doves ( with haloes ) perch in the branches.

Instead of seven in Klondike, there are nine tableau piles to be formed.

Instead of a standard mortar bomb, the projectile was a tube containing seven individual mines, each approximately 11 / 16ths of an inch in diameter ( 18 mm ) and long.

Instead of the ancestors seen in later depictions, seven doves ( with haloes ) perch in the branches.

Instead he awoke when a smaller meteorite hit the Earth in 1992, seven years too early.

Instead he returned to his theater roots in the 2007 staging of The Pillowman, his first play in seven years.