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Instead, they went on down the hall to their room.
Instead they learn their dissection on the bulbs of plants.
Instead, he constantly became lost in parts and components of them, confused some of their details with those of neighboring objects, and so on, unless he allowed time to `` trace '' the object in question through minute movements of the head and hands and in this way to discover its contours.
Instead of the expected `` annoyances '' due to the nature of his mission, he received many calling cards and invitations from `` gentlemen of mark, on whom I had no sort of claim, & have had many more invitations than I could accept ''.
Instead -- and not just to prove my objectivity -- I hasten to report that it's a highly amusing film which probably does a fairly accurate job of reporting on the Easter vacation shenanigans of collegians down in Fort Lauderdale, and that it seems to come to grips quite honestly with the moral problem that most commonly vexes youngsters in this age group -- that is to say, sex.
Instead, he monitored the campaign closely and relied on the enthusiasm of the Republican Party.
Instead of running on wires as in the Chinese and Japanese models, the beads of Roman model run in grooves, presumably making arithmetic calculations much slower.
Instead, the beam was split into two parts, depending on whether the atomic spin was oriented up or down.
Instead Arminius proposed that the election of God was of believers, thereby making it conditional on faith.
Instead the Annales focused attention on the synthesizing of historical patterns identified from social, economic, and cultural history, statistics, medical reports, family studies, and even psychoanalysis.
Instead they focused on regions in France over long stretches of time.
Instead, the council deposed him and tried him for heresy, simony, schism and immorality, finding him guilty on all counts.
Instead, it is negotiated by or configured at the endpoints on a per-virtual-connection basis.
Instead it tends to depend on the location of kind of data available to the researcher.
Instead, the ratio of the speed of the wind and that of the cups, the anemometer factor, depends on the dimensions of the cups and arms, and may have a value between two and a little over three.
Instead it generates the sequences of many thousands of small DNA fragments ( ranging from 35 to 900 nucleotides long, depending on the sequencing technology ).
Instead he used capital and lower-case letters, numerals, and every typographical symbol available on his extensive and somewhat eccentric typewriter.
Instead of cutting, one may also knock on the deck to indicate that one trusts the dealer to have shuffled fairly.
Instead, the British Parliament and the Government-chiefly in the office of Prime Minister-exercise their powers under ' Royal ( or Crown ) Prerogative ': on behalf of the Monarch and through powers still formally possessed by the Monarch.
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, they can agree that certain paradigms should be treated in certain ways, and then agree on the similarities, the so-called warrants between a paradigm and the case at hand.
Instead of attempting to defend all of southern China, Li ordered what remained of the Nationalist armies to withdraw to Guangxi and Guangdong, hoping that he could concentrate all available defenses on this smaller, and more easily defensible, area.
Instead of seeking a grand pattern of history, post-modern interpretations tend to focus on a small subset of Chinese history.
Instead, early 21st century papers on Chinese history tend to be empirical studies of a small part of China which aim to reach a deep understanding of the socio-economics, political dynamics, or cultural dynamics of a small region such as a province or a village with little effort made to create a master narrative which would be generalizable to all of China.
Instead, the Government of India exercised its right of parens patriae to appropriate all the claims of the victims and proceeded to litigate on their behalf, first in the New York courts and later, in the Indian courts.

Instead and every
Instead of listing every single element, sometimes an ellipsis ("...") is used, if the writer believes that the reader can easily guess what is missing ; for example, presumably denotes the set of integers from 1 to 100.
Instead of treating every user as client and server, some users were now treated as ultrapeers, routing search requests and responses for users connected to them.
Instead, they challenged every prosecution theory and witness, offering alternative explanations for the evidence.
Instead of a world government, the above-mentioned " Shield " resolves the problem of an American-dominated world dictatorship in a truly libertarian manner: The protagonist, who is hunted by various power groups for the secret of a personal impregnable force field which he brought from Mars, finally decides to simply reveal it to the entire world, so that every individual could thumb his or her nose at each and every Authority.
Instead, every individual reader creates a new and individual purpose, meaning, and existence for a given text.
Instead of a traditional division schedule of playing each division opponent twice, the Buccaneers played every conference team once, plus the Seahawks.
Instead of every programmer having his own special set of tools, each team should have a designated tool-maker who may create tools that are highly customized for the job that team is doing, e. g., a code generator tool that creates code based on a specification.
Instead the Cray-1 included four 6-channel controllers, each of which was given access to main memory once every four cycles.
Instead, a hammer was provided for every other column and the entire hammer bank was arranged to shift left and right, driven by another voice coil.
Instead of writing out every step of an operation in every part of the program where it was needed, programmers saved memory by writing each step of such operations once ( see " Don't repeat yourself ") and placing it in a subroutine.
Instead, it turned out that Mercury has a 3: 2 spin – orbit resonance, rotating three times for every two revolutions around the Sun ; the eccentricity of Mercury's orbit makes this resonance stable.
Instead of going through traditional distribution channels, which had some type of intermediate ( such as a distributor, wholesaler, broker, or agent ), companies may now deal with every customer directly, for example via the Internet.
Instead, they must now determine the actual network of every number before routing the call.
Instead every machine could be equipped with its own electric motor, providing easy control at the point of use, and improving power transmission efficiency.
Instead of seeking a major battle, as his predecessors had done, Charles chose a strategy of attrition, spreading the fighting at every point possible.
Instead, law enforcement is the responsibility of the county Sheriff, who is a constitutional officer elected every four years.
Instead, Congress chose to permit all persons to sue to recover three times their actual damages every time they were injured in their business or property by an antitrust violation.
Instead, for every character there might be a reference to a flyweight glyph object shared by every instance of the same character in the document ; only the position of each character ( in the document and / or the page ) would need to be stored internally.
Instead of using a greater number of bits and attempting to record a signal's precise amplitude for every sample cycle, a Direct Stream Digital recorder works by encoding a signal in a series of PWM pulses of fixed amplitude but variable duration and timing.
Instead, Cerny defined the elevation of every point in the course, and stored this information in a heightmap array.

1.180 seconds.