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, he brings a certain poignancy and charm to Largo, and since Connery always has been a particularly human James Bond, the emotional stakes are more convincing this time .".

Instead, Libya pursued closer bilateral ties, particularly with Egypt and Northwest African nations Tunisia and Morocco.

Instead of precedents and codes, sharia relies on jurists ' manuals and collections of non-binding legal opinions, or hadith, ( ulama, particularly a mufti ); these can be made binding for a particular case at the discretion of a judge.

" Instead he paid more attention to the industrial regions and the needs of Ontario and Quebec, particularly with respect to the proposed St. Lawrence Seaway project with the United States.

Instead, IBM now prefers to make key product strides through acquisition ( e. g., the takeovers of Lotus Software and Rational Software ) and to support the development of open standards, particularly Linux.

Instead, he applied the aesthetics of the new French school of Chabrier, Satie, and particularly Debussy.

Instead, it seems that the cluster is simply passing through a particularly dusty region of the interstellar medium.

Instead audiences became enchanted with Pavlova and her frail, ethereal look, which fitted the role perfectly, particularly in the scene The Kingdom of the Shades.

Instead ecotourism exploits and depletes, particularly in African Maasai tribes.

Instead, he was replaced by Lord Forth, who drew up the infantry in chequerboard " Swedish " formation, which was potentially more effective but also more difficult to control, particularly with inexperienced soldiers.

Instead she remained a companion to her parents, particularly her mother, with whom she lived until Queen Alexandra's death in 1925.

" Instead, it is thought that Muslims should stick to traditional activities, particularly Dawah.

Instead, the Missa presents a continuous musical narrative, almost without repetition, particularly in the Gloria and Credo movements which last longer than any of the others.

Instead, Foster argued Marx himself was an ' eco-communist ' concerned about the " Metabolic Rift " of industrial societies with the environment particularly in industrial agriculture destroying the productivity of the land and creating wastes in urban sites that fail to be reintegrated into the land and thus lead toward destruction of urban workers health simultaneously.

Instead, Turner made his mark on the first-class cricket scene, particularly with Worcestershire in the English county championship.

Instead, the building was made only to be temporary, non-academic, or not particularly " serious.

Instead, her revenge must be carried out by male agents acting in her name, particularly Brutus, the founder of the Roman Republic, who imitates Lucrece's self-sacrificing rhetoric as he leads the rebellion against Tarquin's father, the king of Rome.

Instead, he lived in England and on the European continent, particularly in Italy and, for a time in Constantinople, whence he was eventually forced to leave after being accused of keeping a private harem.

Instead of comedy, The Steve Show focused on music and particularly " new music ," defined by Merchant as " music you've not heard before.

Instead, a model started to be put forward in which bogrim (" graduates ") of the movement formed small urban communes working in society, particularly in education.

Instead, the United States Congress had jurisdiction to create law within territories in certain circumstances, particularly dealing with revenue, that would not be allowed by the U. S. Constitution for proper states within the union.

Instead, he took up commercial photography, focusing particularly on architectural subjects.

Instead of telling our representatives that they had to wait until I came up with an idea I really liked though, I locked myself in the bedroom of the crappy apartment we had rented in Hollywood and tried to force an idea out like a particularly stubborn hangover shit.

Instead of radiators you'll have cooling-heating units, each with its own thermostat.

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, Anglicans have typically appealed to the Book of Common Prayer and its offshoots as a guide to Anglican theology and practice.

* Instead of teeth, the extinct predatory fish Dunkleosteus had sharp edges of hard exposed bone along its jaws.

Instead, Fitzroy was placed into administration, and its administrator accepted an offer to merge with Brisbane.

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 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, its existence and properties are inferred from its gravitational effects on visible matter, radiation, and the large scale structure of the universe.

Instead of enabling the guest operating system to dialog with hardware, virtual device drivers take the opposite role and emulate a piece of hardware, so that the guest operating system and its drivers running inside a virtual machine can have the illusion of accessing real hardware.

Instead of choosing the traditional natural view as background for an outdoor scene, Manet opts for the iron grating which " boldly stretches across the canvas " The only evidence of the train is its white cloud of steam.

Instead, Winful argues that the group delay in tunneling is not actually the transit time for the pulse ( whose spatial length must be greater than the barrier length in order for its spectrum to be narrow enough to allow tunneling ), but is instead the lifetime of the energy stored in a standing wave which forms inside the barrier.

Instead, the clan's influence stemmed from its matrimonial alliances with the imperial family.

Instead, it denotes the I's original encounter with its own finitude.

Instead, poetry and painting each has its character ( the former is extended in time ; the latter is extended in space ).

Instead it now sought to move beyond its old working class base to appeal the full spectrum of potential voters, including the middle class and professionals.

Instead, women's coats of arms were shown on a lozenge – a rhombus standing on one of its acute corners, an oval or a cartouche.

Instead, the relatively sparse density of Afro-hair, combined with its springy coils actually results in an airy, almost sponge-like effect.

Instead of prompting a backlash against the movement from which the attackers originated, however, Saudi Arabia, already very conservative, responded by shoring up its fundamentalist credentials with even more Islamic restrictions.

Instead writing in the United States quickly returned to its realist orthodoxy and the term irrealism fell into disuse.

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, a device signals its request for service by sending a short message over some communications medium, typically a computer bus.

Instead, he chooses to train her in the use of her telekinesis while allowing her telepathy to grow at its natural rate before reintroducing it.

Instead, the effects of the opium, as described, are intended to suggest that he was not used to its effects.

Instead, they challenged it in court, appealed to Congress for its repeal, and proposed several constitutional amendments.