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, 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 it's an intelligent, beautifully read ..." Stacy Keach played the role with an all-star cast at Joseph Papp's Delacorte Theatre in the early 70's, with Colleen Dewhurst's Gertrude, James Earl Jones's King, Barnard Hughes's Polonius, Sam Waterston's Laertes and Raul Julia's Osric.

Instead, both Akbar and Jahangir studied this artwork very closely and replicated and adapted it, adopting much of the early iconographic features and later the pictorial realism for which Renaissance art was known.

Instead of pursuing a mathematics degree, Trotsky helped organize the South Russian Workers ' Union in Nikolayev in early 1897.

Instead he retired early, after hearing news that his 80-year-old uncle, Thomas Garfield, had been killed in a locomotive accident in Cleveland, Ohio.

Instead, small independent monarchies began to develop by the early ninth century.

Instead, Vulgar Latin is a blanket term covering the popular dialects and sociolects of the Latin language throughout its range from the hypothetical prisca latinitas of unknown or poorly remembered times in early Latium to the death of Latin after the fall of the empire.

: Instead of England's early Sunday dinner, a postchurch ordeal of heavy meats and savory pies, why not a new meal, served around noon, that starts with tea or coffee, marmalade and other breakfast fixtures before moving along to the heavier fare?

Instead, the early removal of a chancellor is only possible when it simultaneously agrees on a successor.

Instead, cassette, reel-to-reel, and 8-track versions ( issued on two cassettes / cartridges / reels in early 1969 ) contained cover artwork that featured high contrast black and white ( with no grey ) versions of the four Kelly photographs.

Instead there was a wave of building or adapting Calvinist " temples ", though in the end none of these were to remain in use by the following year, and their layouts, which seem to have echoed early Swiss and Scottish Calvinist designs, are now largely unknown.

Instead, the Roman Grid was spread around the Mediterranean and into northern Europe later on during " the late Republic and the early Empire " period that saw dissemination of the grid plan throughout this area.

Instead they regarded Opabinia ′ s lobe + gill arrangement as an early form of the biramous limbs which are seen in trilobites and crustaceans and which may be the original form in all arthropods.

Instead, early in 1643, Rupert began to clear the South-West, taking Cirencester in February before moving further against Bristol, a key port.

Instead, DRAM memories came onto the market in the early 1970s that rapidly replaced all previous random access memory systems.

Instead of just constructing “ an enlarged easel painting ,” he realized that the mural “ must conform to the normal transit of a spectator .” Eventually, Siqueiros would develop a mural technique that involved tracing figures onto a wall with an electric projector, photographing early wall sketches to improve perspective, and new paints, spray guns, and other tools to accommodate the surface of modern buildings and the outdoor conditions.

Instead, the IMAX system specifies a separate six-channel 35mm ( 1. 377 inch ) magnetic film, recorded and played back on a film follower locked to picture, just as Vitaphone had been ( utilizing 16-inch 33 1 / 3 RPM electrical transcription discs ) in the early 20th century, and was the same technology used to provide the 7-channel soundtrack accompanying films photographed and exhibited in the Cinerama process in the mid-1950s.

Instead of subducting beneath the Pacific Northwest, the Kula Plate began subducting underneath southwestern Yukon and Alaska and during the early Eocene period.

Instead, using concepts drawn from physiognomy, early eugenics, psychiatry and Social Darwinism, Lombroso's theory of anthropological criminology essentially stated that criminality was inherited, and that someone " born criminal " could be identified by physical defects, which confirmed a criminal as savage, or atavistic.

Instead TWW quit its franchise early, selling the last five months to Harlech for £ 500, 000 even though the new company was not yet ready to start broadcasting at the time.

Instead, the producers used Cassie, a character who dies early in the seventh season and speaks for Tara, telling Willow to kill herself.

The early 1930s saw a shift in ideological focus away from collectivist propaganda and towards “ positive heroism .” Instead of glorifying socialist collectivism as a means of societal advancement, the Soviet Communist Party began uplifting individuals who committed heroic actions that advanced the cause of socialism.

Instead, he resigned in early 1912 and that same year married Adeline Virginia Stephen ( Virginia Woolf ).

Instead, the generals of the Grand Alliance became heroes of a Europe " civilized even when at war "-an ideal which would last, with some exceptions, to the early days of the First World War.

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 saying that humans live on the outside surface of a hollow planet, sometimes called a " convex " hollow-Earth hypothesis, some have claimed that our universe itself lies in the interior of a hollow world, calling this a " concave " hollow-Earth hypothesis.

Instead, one has a single, holistic continuum, wherein what were formerly called discrete, separable particles of matter are instead the infinite number of distinguishable, though correlated manifestations of this continuum, that in principle is the universe.

Instead they concentrated on the problem of the will of the gods: if the gods created the universe and man and have a will and a plan for everyone and everything in it, why did they not devise a system for communicating that will in a clear manner?

Instead of matter and atoms like our universe, a world made out of data.

Instead of the immediate creation ex nihilo, both works postulate a series of emanations of mediums between God and the universe ; and both consider God as the first cause only, and not as the immediate efficient cause of the world.

Instead, the Omega Point must exist even before the universe's evolution, because the Omega Point is responsible for the rise of the universe towards more complexity, consciousness and personality.

Instead, the people of Diaspar and Lys are the descendants of those humans who deliberately turned away from the universe in rejection of history's greatest scientific project: the creation of a disembodied intellect.

Instead he has created a moral universe and will judge its inhabitants.

Instead, Libra is absorbed into the universe itself, effectively disintegrating him and spreading his essence across the cosmos.

Instead, it simply holds that science is the best way to explore the processes of the universe and that those processes are what modern science is striving to understand.

Instead the universe begins to " erase " those for whom the paradox exists.

Instead, the most widely accepted explanation is that physical processes such as natural selection can account for the complexity of life and other phenomena and features of the universe.

Instead they ended up on the planet Zeta Minor ( Planet of Evil ), located at the far edge of the known universe.

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, his suffering demonstrates God's displeasure with sin and what sin deserves at the hands of a just Governor of the universe, enabling God to extend forgiveness while maintaining divine order.

Instead, they believe the universe has always existed, and can point to scientific evidence and verified theory to back up this belief.