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 they assume one of the numerous animal stances which makes it difficult for opponents to predict the next attack.

Instead of enjoying the merits of its own many-year work, they would get harder opponents from the start and the competition would start already in July.

Instead, the Renovationist Church made attempts at imitating external liturgical and organizational forms of their opponents from the “ Patriarchal ” Church.

" Instead of ramming and sinking the other ships, both sides attempted to board their opponents ' ships and fight what was essentially a land battle at sea.

Instead of a player tagging his opponents, he must pull his opponent's bandana out of their pocket.

Instead, online poker players learn to focus more keenly on opponents ' betting patterns, reaction time, speed of play, use of check boxes / auto plays, opponents ' fold / flop percentages, chat box, waiting for the big blind, beginners ' tells, and other behavior tells that are not physical in nature.

Instead of making the playable boxer wire-framed or transparent to see an opponent, they decided to shrink the playable boxer, so that players could easily see opponents over his head.

Instead, Potocki became, for the next decade and half, one of his chief political critics and opponents ; on 1776 he went to Moscow to argue, unsuccessfully, for limiting the power of king and the Russian ambassador, Otto Magnus von Stackelberg.

Instead, he almost always managed to talk his enemies into submission, often into suicide – perhaps most memorably in Remembrance of the Daleks, where he taunts the seemingly last Dalek in existence until it self-destructs, or in Ghost Light, where he defeats the malevolent Light by ramming home the folly of trying to prevent evolution ( he employs variations of this ' talk to death ' tactic in Dragonfire, Silver Nemesis and The Curse of Fenric, although primarily to manipulate opponents to guarantee the outcome in his favour ).

Instead of pulling trumps from his opponents, the player plays his ace of diamonds.

Instead of simply choosing moves, handlers could now voice their wrestlers through roleplay, creating " promos " against opponents.

Instead of the one planet per star universe found in the original there are now multiplanet star systems that can be shared with opponents.

Instead, the source code for the programs was made available for study after each game, allowing players to learn from each other and to verify that their opponents hadn't cheated.

Instead, Tiberius addressed a number of contradictory letters to the Senate, some of which praised Sejanus and his friends, and some of which denounced them.

In January 1936, halfway through this period, Pravda — under direct orders from Joseph Stalin — published the infamous editorial ' Chaos Instead of Music ' that denounced the composer and specifically targeted his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.

Instead, Seni denounced the Phibun regime as illegal and formed a Seri Thai Movement in Washington.

Instead the meeting unanimously denounced all violence.

It was so tightly controlled by Welch that its effectiveness was limited, and it focused on calls to impeach Chief Justice Earl Warren, as well as supporting local police Instead it became a lighting rod for liberal attacks, and indeed Welch was denounced by Goldwater, Buckley and other mainstream conservatives.

Instead Neptune was predicted using Newton's law of universal gravitation.

Instead of just establishing it as a military prison, he provided for a civil administration, with courts of law.

Instead, it presumably refers to the practice of setting law books and citing legal precedents in blackletter type, a tradition that survived long after the switch to roman and italic text for other printed works.

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 just studying Halakha, Louis Ginzberg wrote responsa, formal responses to questions of Jewish law.

Instead, it maintained a system of taxation on the production that took place in the territories that they controlled, in exchange for protecting the growers and establishing law and order in these regions by implementing its own rules and regulations.

Instead, the law compelled the authorities to sell gold bullion on demand at a fixed price, but only in the form of bars containing approximately four hundred troy ounces of fine gold.

Instead the Emperors reserved the implementation of the bishops of their proprietary church for themselves, defying the fact that according to canon law they were part of the transnational Catholic Church.

Instead, international law has been used with respect to the specific categories of weapons within WMD, and not to WMD as a whole.

Instead of studying law, he tinkered with mechanical gadgets.

Instead of executing Mulan as the law requires, Li Shang decides to spare her life by leaving her on the mountain as the rest of the army departs for the Imperial City to report the news of the Huns ' demise.

Instead of executing Mulan as the law requires, Li Shang decides to spare her life, leaving her on the mountain as the rest of the army departs for the Imperial City to report the news of the Huns ' demise.

Instead, appeals courts review decisions of trial courts for errors of law.

Instead of considering Leibniz's law as an axiom, it can also be taken as the definition of equality.

Instead, law enforcement is the responsibility of the county Sheriff, who is a constitutional officer elected every four years.

Instead, it contended that the law separated the two races as a matter of public policy.

Instead, the overarching story of all five seasons of the series pitted Angel as the central player in a battle between the " good " Powers That Be and the " evil " law firm Wolfram & Hart and his possible role in a prophesied apocalypse.

Instead, the court held that the right to the assistance of counsel was a fundamental right, essential for a fair trial, thereby emphasizing the procedural safeguards needed for due process of law.

Instead, the Apalachin Meeting turned into a terrible fiasco when law enforcement raided the meeting.

Instead, they were proponents of natural law, created by the King's authority, not by any individual judge.

Instead, he has worked towards establishing reliable political customs when transitioning one government administration to another, emphasizing constitutional law and protocol, and representing the Spanish State domestically and internationally, all the while maintaining a professionally non-partisan yet independent monarchy.

Instead of transparently enforcing the rule of law and being subject to public scrutiny as ordinary police agencies do, secret police organizations are specifically intended to operate beyond and above the law in order to suppress political dissent through clandestine acts of terror and intimidation ( such as kidnapping, coercive interrogation, torture, internal exile, forced disappearance, and assassination ) targeted against political enemies of the ruling authority.

Instead, Stevens was offered a job with the Fairbanks, Alaska, law firm of Emil Usibelli's Alaska attorney, Charles Clasby, whose firm – Collins and Clasby – had just lost one of its attorneys.