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 aim is to create room for critical thinking and more inclusive understanding of the past and conceptions of “ the other .”

Instead, the Übermensch " seems to be the ideal aim of spiritual development more than a biological goal .".

Instead, he was sent into drug rehabilitation and put on a three-year probation, benefiting from the California Proposition 36, which had been passed the year before with the aim of helping nonviolent drug offenders overcome their addictions instead of sending them to jail.

* Instead of concentrating on getting new customers, aim for more referrals, more transactions with existing customers, and larger transactions.

Instead, a group named " Commission Number 3 " was created to resolve the problem of the " Rhineland Bastards " with the aim of preventing their further procreation in German society.

Instead of using a shield, the jousters aim for such a reinforcing piece added to the armour's left shoulder known as Brechschild ( also Stechtartsche ).

Instead of Free Trade, which benefited mainly substantial farmers, Fianna Fáil pursued the nationalist aim of establishing Irish domestic industries, which were protected from foreign competitors by tarifs and subsidies.

Instead of completing the general education requirements at Western, students take interdisciplinary classes at Fairhaven which aim to cover the same breadth and depth of subjects, but within small, interdisciplinary seminars.

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Instead they aim to impart more detailed understanding of the local status and distribution of that area's plants.

Instead of having almost perfect accuracy with weapons in games like Call of Duty, Brothers in Arms models weapons with erratic accuracy, and enemy fire can interfere with a player's aim to simulate the effects of suppressive fire.

Instead of sending troops to save Han directly, Sun Bin suggested they should aim for the capital of Wei, Daliang.

Instead of focusing on the needs of the utilities ( which had by this time already adopted the Giro ) and the personal banking market, the National Giro would aim to capture the cash deposit business then dominated by the commercial clearing banks.

Instead, the aim was to give out a good match and make matches less one-sided.

Instead, his main aim was to preserve Croatian people from war and unnecessary suffering.

Instead, the player must aim through the iron sights on the weapons themselves, but sustained aiming tires the character and drops accuracy.

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, 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, 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.

Instead of giving themselves spontaneously to the orgiastic release that jazz can give them, they undergo psychoanalysis or flirt with mysticism or turn to prostitutes for satisfaction.

Instead it means that the thinking in which decision issues has the power to determine the morality of the decision, as in this instance the pressure for renewed practical or legislative attention to the constitutional problems the decision had uncovered might have done.

Instead she waited for Alfred to get better and take care of her.

Instead of wanting to sock the poor bastard I found myself having a fellowfeeling for him.

Instead of motels, for the boatman there are marinas.

Instead, he whirled and ran to his house for a gun, forcing them to kill him, Cook reported.

Instead of starting from theory and applying theory to a particular case, casuists start with the particular case itself and then ask what morally significant features ( including both theory and practical considerations ) ought to be considered for that particular case.

Instead, the irrigated agriculture project was headed for completion with apparently no prospects for extension beyond 2011.

Instead, lower bidding characters are ranked in ascending order according to how much they have bid, the characters becoming progressively weaker in that attribute as they pay less for it.

Instead they urged their urban sympathizers to vote for Labour candidates, as the representatives of the urban working class.

Instead, the council deposed him and tried him for heresy, simony, schism and immorality, finding him guilty on all counts.

Instead of the Acht Orte appointing a bailiff together, Zurich and Bern each appointed the governor for 7 out of 16 years while Glarus appointed him for the remaining 2 years.

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

Instead of a limited number of hardware sprites, the MARIA allows for a much larger number of sprites described in a list of display lists.

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, Augustus claimed the title for himself ( for the 7th time ).

Instead of complying with the FBI request, MonkeyBrains published a database website http :// badtrans. monkeybrains. net for the public to determine if a given address has been compromised.

Instead, the forms of service that were to be included in the Book of Common Prayer were drawn from the Missal ( for the Mass ), Breviary for the daily office, Manual ( for the occasional services ; Baptism, Marriage, Burial etc.

Instead of the banning of all vestments save the rochet ( for bishops ) and the surplice for parish clergy, it permitted ' such ornaments ... as were in use ... in the second year of K. Edward VI '.