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Instead and usual
Instead of the usual straggling privet hedges and patches of bare dirt in most small-town squares, the building was hemmed in by a semitropical growth of camellias and azaleas and a smooth lawn the improbably bright-green shade of florist's grass.
Instead of developing a new name for the new type of monarchy, they used ( autokratōr, only partly overlapping with the modern understanding of " autocrat ") or ( basileus, until then the usual name for " sovereign ").
Instead of adopting the usual blue moonlight or blue street lamp look, he used an orange sodium-light effect.
Instead of the usual western facade and eastern apse, the cathedral sports two apses.
Instead of writing a piece for production by a theatre proprietor, as was usual in Victorian theatres, Gilbert, Sullivan and Carte produced the show with their own financial support.
Instead, over-under or total bets are handled much like point-spread bets on a team, with the usual 10 / 11 ( 4. 55 %) commission applied.
Instead of the usual gene repression, some organisms go in for large-scale elimination of heterochromatin, or other kinds of visible adjustment to the karyotype.
Instead of the usual transliteration, some English-language authors pseudo-translate reiki as " universal life energy ".
Instead of his usual dress, he wears white tie tuxedo suit like the other musicians around him.
Instead, the usual clinical practice is to offer hydration, nutrition, and comfort measures and to " let nature take its course ".
Instead of becoming a vampirish hopping corpse, the usual fate of suicides, he was made the god of the Kitchen, and was reunited with his wife.
Instead of the more usual bogies, Pacers use a basic four-wheel two-axle configuration.
Instead of usual Taiji translations " Supreme Ultimate " or " Supreme Pole ", Adler uses " Supreme Polarity " ( see Robinet 1990 ) because Zhu Xi describes it as the alternating principle of yin and yang, and …
Instead of usual Taiji translations " Supreme Ultimate " or " Supreme Pole ", Adler uses " Supreme Polarity " ( see Robinet 1990 ) because Zhu Xi describes it as the alternating principle of yin and yang, and ...
Instead, a " great crown " comprising a circlet of gold with crosses and fleurs-de-lys atop its rim, but without arches ( an open crown ), was a king's usual headgear on state occasions until the time of Henry V, who is depicted in statuary and illustrations with an " imperial crown ", i. e., the great crown with gold arches added ( also called a closed crown ).
Instead of the usual note bending with a tremolo arm, he achieves a kind of chord bending that Rolling Stone described as, " a strange warping effect that makes the music wander in and out of focus ".
Bart Blasengame gave the film 4 out of 5 stars, stating: " Instead of taking the usual tour documentary approach and dwelling on individual concerts or behind-the-scenes banter between the band, Gee's film focuses on the absurdity of being an important rock band in the current musical landscape-the shallow marketing of the band, the endless stream of redundant interviews, the blinding photo shoots and awkward television appearances.
Instead, they were waved in on Mr Feith's authority without having to fill in the usual forms.
Instead of taking classics — in Italy, the usual high-school education for lawyers — he had studied to become an electronics technician ( though he has never taken a computer course ).
Instead of their usual functional sporting outfits, the athletes adopted a variety of sexy outfits in order to raise money for the Sports Aid Foundation.
Instead of the usual life bar, characters build up a " kill meter ".
Instead the World Team opted for counterplay, as usual, this time by a vote of 72 %.
Instead of taking the usual route of teaching at a lycée, however, Mauss moved to Paris and took up the study of comparative religion and the Sanskrit language.
Instead of the usual review article for World War II Online, he posted a long, profane and amusing chatlog of him testing the game offline, in which he proclaimed, " I WILL TAXI TO VICTORY!

Instead and Miss
Instead of her old confidence in the simplest, purest, most moving musical expression, Miss Schwarzkopf is letting herself be tempted by the classic sin of artistic pride -- that subtle vanity that sometimes misleads a great artist into thinking that he or she can somehow better the music by bringing to it something extra, some personal dramatic touch imposed from the outside.
Instead, CBS settled for former Miss America and NFL Today co-host Phyllis George, who was given a three-year contract following a mere two-week trial run.
Instead, it was the home of the person whom Colin sought, center of the spy ring, Miss Pebmarsh.

Instead and persuaded
Instead of a mere reproduction of the Cyclopaedia, he persuaded Le Breton to enter upon a new work, which would collect all the active writers, ideas, and knowledge that were moving the cultivated class of the Republic of Letters to its depths but were comparatively ineffectual due to their dispersion.
Instead, Leland persuaded them to continue the automobile business using Leland's proven single-cylinder engine.
Instead of abandoning the match, the Indian manager, SK Durani persuaded Chauhan to return to the match which India went on to win by 59 runs as Australia collapsed to 83 in their second innings.
Instead Abgarus persuaded him to attack Surena ; however, in the midst of the battle he himself joined the other side.
Instead, Leland persuaded them to continue in the automobile business.
Instead he persuaded George III to pour secret service money into Swedish politics, to support Russia and undermine French influence.
But Harry is persuaded by Sven that he is innocent of the crimes and, Instead of killing him, secretly removes him from the custody cells and goes into hiding.
Instead, they persuaded Warren Ellis to continue the series.
Instead Weisberg was persuaded by The Washington Posts Robert G. Kaiser to join Elihu Society.
Instead, he persuaded the Society of Merchant Venturers to manage a school he established for 50 boys on Saint Augustine's Back, where the Colston Hall now stands.

Instead and change
Instead, non-return-to-zero, inverted encoding is used: a change from pit to land or land to pit indicates a one, while no change indicates a series of zeros.
Instead, radical psychologists examined the role of society in causing and treating problems and looked towards social change as an alternative to therapy to treat mental illness and as a means of preventing psychopathology.
Instead of trying to approach Christianity through the traditions of the local religion and creating a nativised church as latter fellow Jesuit Matteo Ricci did in China, he was eager for change.
Instead of " flow " Plato uses chōrei, to change chōros.
Instead of a codified classification as the pragmatic application of genre, the new genre idea insists that " human agents not only have the creative capacities to reproduce past action, such as action embedded in genres, but also can respond to changes in their environment, and in turn change that environment, to produce under-determined and possibly unprecedented action, such as by modifying genres " ( Killoran 72 ).
Instead, hippies seek to change the world through reason and by living what they believe.
Instead of preventing software change, remote attestation would indicate when the software has been changed without owner's permission.
Instead of one of his parents, the German version credits the lumberjack's " Uncle Walter " as inspiring his passion for cross-dressing ; this change was likely done simply for a rhyme with " Büstenhalter ", the German translation for " bra ", which caps the phrase preceding the " I wish I'd been a girlie ..." line.
Instead, he taught how one should recognize one's nature and the nature of others, and then maximize the benefit that is there in reality, rather than wasting one's life trying to change oneself and others.
Instead she tells Harlan that her people, who prefer to watch past time rather than travel in it or change it, discovered that Eternity was, in choosing safety for humanity, suppressing creativity.
Instead, change is typically slow and worked out through compromise between interest groups, regional consultations, and the government of the day.
Instead of a discussion on the world economy with knowledgeable experts alongside key business and political players, the annual meeting now features the top media political causes of the day, such as global climate change and AIDS in Africa.
Instead of changing from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar by omitting a block of consecutive days as had been done in other countries, the Swedish Empire ( which included Finland at the time ) planned to change gradually by omitting all leap days for the entire period from 1700 to 1740 inclusive.
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, there is a gradual change in their viscoelastic properties over a range of temperatures.
Instead, the steam freed more flammable vapors in the fuel causing the flame ’ s change.
Instead of letting a consolidated event disappear for lack of interest, the FIVB decided to change its format in 1991: it would be held in the year preceding, and not following, the Olympic Games ; and it would be considered a first international Olympic qualification tournament, granting the winner a direct berth in the games.
Instead, the Epiclesis is believed to be the moment at which this change is completed.
Instead the LNWR terminated its trains at a station at the end of Ingleton viaduct, and Midland Railway passengers had to change into LNWR trains by means of a walk of about a mile over steep gradients between the two stations.
Instead of stretching the sample, which would change the sample's timbre and pitch, ReCycle slices the loop into little pieces so that each beat gets its own sample.
Instead, on May 8, Dorian received a phone call from de Portago's mother Olga, informing Dorian that Fon's tire on his Ferrari race car had blown up because he did not stop in time for a tire change.
Instead, you choose a classification of mech to equip, and are then given the option to change out weapons and armor as you would in a first person shooter.
Instead, they can change concavity around vertical asymptotes or discontinuities.

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