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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.
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Instead, the phrase should be taken to say that the person is ( 1 ) defined only insofar as he or she acts and ( 2 ) that he or she is responsible for his or her actions.
Instead, a phrase along the lines of “ first to reach ” would be needed as this conforms to rules of grammar.
Instead of phrase structure rules ATNs used an equivalent set of finite state automata that were called recursively.
Instead of one of his parents, the German version credits the lumberjack's " Uncle Walter " as inspiring his passion for cross-dressing ; this change was likely done simply for a rhyme with " Büstenhalter ", the German translation for " bra ", which caps the phrase preceding the " I wish I'd been a girlie ..." line.
Instead, a phrase that follows the form article-noun -“ and ”- noun, when the nouns involved are plurals, can involve two entirely distinct groups, two overlapping groups, two groups of which is one a subset of the other, or two identical groups.
Instead, the phrase seems to have been coined by Puritan scholar Perry Miller, and many Calvinists distance themselves from it.
Instead, only Joe Nuxhall's traditional phrase of "... Rounding third and heading for home.
Instead of beginning with cum (" since ") as what would be expected, Cicero suspends it to the end of the phrase to bring attention to the gravity of the names he states.
Instead of the inversion of the theme we expect in the second phrase of A, the strings take over and offer an entirely different melody, but with essentially the same contour as the inversion.
*# Instead the phrase “ Power Elite ” forces us to consider the union of the military, economic, and state power.
Instead, the phrase has a conventionalized meaning referring to any auction where, instead of rising, the prices fall.
Instead and appears
Instead, the word " enthalpy " first appears in the scientific literature in a 1909 publication by J. P. Dalton.
Instead of falling, as might be expected, the gyroscope appears to defy gravity by remaining with its axis horizontal, when the other end of the axis is left unsupported and the free end of the axis slowly describes a circle in a horizontal plane, the resulting precession turning.
Instead, the energy of such a macroscopic system appears to vary over a continuum of values.
Instead, he appears Sunday mornings during the NFL season on SportsCenter.
Instead it appears he remained in the king's confidence and held his lands until his death.
Instead, the ' Mystery ' bonus hole from the computer game appears after ' Ant Hill ', although it was renamed ' Knockout Nightmare '.
Instead, the limitation of her freezing power appears to be determined by the size of the area, and she can freeze anything ( except those entities immune to her powers ) in the area of effect.
Instead, Pose appears frequently, and in addition to making the player do static poses, he will be shaking his maracas in certain patterns that the player must mimic.
Instead, an HVC develops just above the basal ganglia, and this appears to be the area of the bird brain most concerned with learning complex tasks.
Instead, the nuclear envelope itself appears to function as the main MTOC for microtubule nucleation and spindle organization during plant cell mitosis.
Instead, it appears that the low-moment / high-moment transition is preceded by a high-magnetic-moment frustrated ferromagnetic state in which the Fe-Fe magnetic exchange bonds have a large magneto-volume effect of the right sign and magnitude to create the observed thermal expansion anomaly.
Instead, while Oliver is forced by Sikes to help him burgle a house, Nancy goes directly to Mr. Brownlow to warn him of the plot against the boy, and Fagin dispatches the Artful Dodger instead of Noah Claypole ( who appears only in the early scenes ) to spy on her.
Instead of involving the nonphysical, he says, consciousness merely plays tricks on people so that it appears nonphysical — in other words, it simply seems like it requires nonphysical features to account for its powers.
Instead, the focus is the point from which the light appears to be emanating, after it travels through the lens or reflects from the mirror.
Instead, de Beer argues that St. Peter appears simply as an apostolic authority, through whom Milton might express his frustration with unworthy members of the English clergy.
Instead, the cast appears with the host in a group shot, then runs off to prepare for their various sketches while the host delivers the monologue ( much like a Second City stage show ).
( 168 ) Instead it appears that such individuals gravitate toward one another and form their own cliques, although these friendships do often differ from the friendships of more socially acceptable children.
Instead of postulating an principle of beginning-less ignorance avidya like Advaita Vedanta, he points out that it is though the free-will of Shiva, Svatantriya, that ignorance appears.
Instead, darkness only appears when sources of light are extinguished or obscured, and only persists when an object absorbs a disproportionate amount of the light that strikes it.
Instead it was inspired partly by myth, and partly by a regenerating troll that appears in Poul Anderson's Three Hearts and Three Lions.
Instead of finding information, his book tells him that he is looking in the wrong place, and a strange circular symbol with eight spurs appears.
Instead of Dan, the tribe of Joseph appears twice.
Instead an English subtitle appears preserving and complementing the original audio.
Instead the Walkman player appears when it is pressed.
Instead and have
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, he went down to New York and submitted Welcome To Our City to the Theatre Guild, which had asked him to let them have a look at it after Professor Baker had recommended it highly.
Instead we have stood idly by, watched our commuter railroad service decline, and have failed to offer a helping hand.
Instead of radiators you'll have cooling-heating units, each with its own thermostat.
Instead of closing the house in first ( as most builders do ) you can now cut your costs by not closing it in until you have to ( see p 121 ).
Instead of isolating the literal flatness by specifying and circumscribing it, the pasted paper or cloth releases and spreads it, and the artist seems to have nothing left but this undepicted flatness with which to finish as well as start his picture.
Instead of quelling the dissension, as many captains of the era would have done ( Sir Francis Drake lopped a man's head off under similar circumstances ), Hudson decided to be reasonable.
Instead of the expected `` annoyances '' due to the nature of his mission, he received many calling cards and invitations from `` gentlemen of mark, on whom I had no sort of claim, & have had many more invitations than I could accept ''.
Instead, Anglicans have typically appealed to the Book of Common Prayer and its offshoots as a guide to Anglican theology and practice.
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, inheriting phobias would have restrictive and debilitating effects upon survival, rather than being an aid.
Instead of a soup, the atom was also sometimes said to have had a " cloud " of positive charge.
Instead, AMOS BASIC controlled the computer directly, which caused programs written in it to have a non-standard user interface, and also caused compatibility problems with newer versions of the operating system.
Instead, the ratio of the speed of the wind and that of the cups, the anemometer factor, depends on the dimensions of the cups and arms, and may have a value between two and a little over three.
Instead many Canadian companies have focused their exploration and expansion activities overseas where prices are lower and governments more accommodating.
Instead of cutting, one may also knock on the deck to indicate that one trusts the dealer to have shuffled fairly.
Instead, in their research and writing, many postmodern scholars have adopted “ alternatives that encourage reflection about the ‘ politics and poetics ’ of their work.
Instead of generating broad demographic profiles and psycho-graphic profiles of market segments, marketers have started to engage in personalized marketing, permission marketing, and mass customization.
Instead, it is suggested, Hume might have been answering an epistemological question, about the causal origin of our concept of the self.
Instead Thomas is viewed as part of the modernism and romanticism movements, though attempts to pigeon-hole him within a particular neo-romantic school have been unsuccessful.
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, a popular theory suggests linguistic updating, which is when " late forms may not in fact have been original to the book but may reflect the updating of vocabulary and grammar by later scribes so their contemporaries could understand the book better.
Instead, he acted as Postumus deputy until the very last days of his revolt, when he seems to have assumed the purple for himself.
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