Instead, the phrase appears to have originated in the early 19th century United States ( particularly in the sense " pull oneself over a fence by one's bootstraps "), to mean an absurdly impossible action, an adynaton.

Instead, it referred to the process of one's training-the strengthening of the body and the mind, the learning and the perfection of one's skills-rather than to what was being trained.

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, one normally wears the ribbon or rosette on one's suit.

Instead, they concentrated on the experience of one's own existence.

Instead, the Eastern Church has emphasized the role of the Holy Spirit in the Christian's life and has maintained ascetic disciplines such as fasting and prayer ( the minimum fast obligatory on Orthodox faithful is two days weekly ), not as a way to make satisfaction for past sins or to build up merit, but as a means of spiritual discipline to help reduce one's susceptibility to temptation in the future to exercise self control, and to avoid being enslaved to one's passions and desires.

Instead, he emphasized careful reading and understanding of the Bible and a sincere attempt to follow the precepts and example of Jesus in one's personal life.

Instead of having to travel hundreds of miles to become near to a venerated saint, one could venerate the relics of the saint within one's own home.

Instead, cultivating a spirit of self-sacrifice, coupled with an attitude of appreciation or contemplation, directed towards the other of one's attractions, constitutes the ideals of what we consider to be true romantic love.

Instead, judgements about one's own mind seem to be inferences from overt behavior, similar to judgements made about another person.

Instead, the illegalists argued that their actions required no moral basis – illegal acts were taken not in the name of a higher ideal, but in pursuit of one's own desires.

Instead, experiental learning is designed to improve one's understanding by giving one the freedom to explore and find the learning path that is most suitable for him or her.

Instead, Foucault looks at the critical tools of using one's own reason, and how disputing Kant's other arguments only serves to reinforce the value of Sapere Aude ( Foucault uses the term critical ontology as a synonym for his concept ) with a sort of faithful betrayal.

Instead she decided to wait out the years, marking each one's pass with a pebble put in a clay jar.

Instead, the degree of reality-tracking ability determines how virtuous the individual's intellect is, and therefore how good one's knowledge is.

Instead, competence and talent are considered symbolic of one's social standing – resources that cannot be counterfeited or hoarded, and must be put to use if they are to be acknowledged.

Instead of a blade, these would hold the tools of one's trade, compasses, and even flasks for keeping alcohol.

Instead he advocated living under one's own conditions in the present time, revolting against social conditioning in daily life and living with those with an affinity to oneself in accord to the values and desire they share.

Instead, they estimate BAC indirectly by measuring the amount of alcohol in one's breath.

Instead, focus is put on developing one's natural movement and fighting abilities through a system of training methods and concepts, working to improve the perception of one's body, its movement, and of force.

Instead, the Hebrew name Ahasuerus accords with an inscription of the time that notes that Artaxerxes II was named also Arshu, understood as a shortening of Achshiyarshu the Babylonian rendering of the Persian Khshayarsha ( Xerxes ), through which the Hebrew Achashverosh ( Ahasuerus ) is derived.

Instead of the traditional Jewish order and names for the books, Christians organize and name the books closer to that found in the Septuagint.

Instead, these parsers just provide to the application the parsed FPI and / or URI associated to the notations found in the parsed SGML or XML document, and with a facility for a dictionary containing all notation names declared in the DTD ; these validating parsers will also check the uniqueness of notation name declarations, and will report a validation error if some notation names are used anywhere in the DTD or in the document body but not declared:

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, his mother and the sister of Kōtoku, the former Empress Kogyoku ascended to the throne under another name, Empress Saimei.

Instead of giving a sermon, the priest calls out K .' s name.

Instead he and his brother Raúl ( who had been given the same name as his late brother ) traveled incognito to New Orleans, Louisiana.

Instead, the IFV, as its name implies, is supposed to carry riflemen and their weapons into the battlefield where they dismount and fight outside the vehicle with the support of the IFV's main armament.

Instead of practicing the compassion he taught, man has waged wars in his name.

Instead, it elected Cardinal Giovanni Battista Pamphili as his successor at the papal conclave of 1644, who took the name of Innocent X.

Instead, the name Seattle Seahawks (" Seahawk ", another name for Osprey ) was selected on June 17, 1975 after a public naming contest which drew more than 20, 000 entries and over 1, 700 different names.

Instead, she later married Herluin de Conteville, with whom she had two sons – Odo of Bayeux and Robert, Count of Mortain – and a daughter whose name is unknown.

Instead, they seem to have been based primarily or solely on the name or synonyms of the variety.

Instead of assuming the consulship, Crassus is accused of planning to become dictator and intending to name Caesar magister equitum.

Instead, polar stratospheric clouds are given the name Nacreous based on their mother of pearl colorations and are sub-classified alpha-numerically based on chemical makeup rather than variations in physical appearance.

Instead of baptizing in the name of the Trinity, he baptized in the name of the Creator and into the death of Christ.

Instead of referring to the data as, in effect, " the data that happens to be in these cells ", each set of data in the sheet was given a name, and could then be grouped into categories.

Instead, in the center building of the Temple of Heaven, in a structure called the " Imperial Vault of Heaven ", a " spirit tablet " ( 神位, or shénwèi ) inscribed with the name of Shangdi is stored on the throne, Huangtian Shangdi ( 皇天上帝 ).

Instead, the name " Gadsden " was chosen, in honor of Colonel James Gadsden of South Carolina, who later became prominent for the Gadsden Purchase.

Instead of elves and goblins there are the insect-like Olthoi, the cat-like humanoid Drudges, the giant grey-skinned humanoid Lugians and the reptilian Sclavus, to name a few.

Instead of emotional recrimination, loaded phrases and sloganeering, we need a dispassionate study of the facts, a better understanding of the opposite viewpoint and a more serious effort to extend the areas of agreement until a solution is reached.

Instead of Catholics' being obliged or even encouraged to beget the greatest possible number of offspring, as many Non-Catholics imagine, the ideal of responsible parenthood is stressed.

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 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, the element is prepared, in milligram amounts, by the neutron irradiation of < sup > 226 </ sup > in a nuclear reactor.

Instead, providence is a power that emanates from the heavens to the sublunar region, and is responsible for the generation and destruction of earthly things, without any direct involvement in the lives of individuals.

Instead, it is negotiated by or configured at the endpoints on a per-virtual-connection basis.

Instead of the gradual transition through the capillaries from arteries to veins that is typical of normal functioning vasculature, AVMs cause direct associations of the arteries and veins.

Since the 2002 edition, the Apostles ' Creed is included in the Roman Missal with the indication, " Instead of the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, especially during Lent and Easter time, the baptismal Symbol of the Roman Church, known as the Apostles ’ Creed, may be used.

Instead, it is put in parallel with chapter 4 ( C ) where divine judgements are pronounced against the Babylonian kings.

Instead, Pasternak was told, " Comrade Stalin is busy.

Instead it is part of the Intelligence and Security Directorate ( DIS ) which reports directly to the Minister of the Presidency.

Instead, murder is treated as a civil crime and is covered by the law of retaliation, whereby the relatives of the victim decide whether the offender is punished with death by the authorities or made to pay diyah as compensation.

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, these efforts, it is argued, were made in order to advance Western development and reinforce Western hegemony.

Instead, the decree states that Christ is " really, truly, substantially present " in the consecrated forms.

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, it is important that support for the CRM system is companywide.

Instead, this is just an indication that sugar and / or fat has separated due to poor storage.