Instead of transferring the weight of the bridge and traffic loads into thrust forces into the abutments, the ends of the arches are restrained by tension in the bottom chord of the structure.

Instead of traffic lights, the city takes pride in its traffic police that directs the oncoming traffic with their dance-like movement of their arms and hands.

Instead, the normal green lamp flashes rapidly, indicating permission to go straight as well as make a left turn in front of opposing traffic, which is being held by a steady red lamp.

Instead of waiting after a traffic light changes to green for drivers ahead to react, a synchronized platoon would move as one, allowing up to a fivefold increase in traffic throughput if spacing is diminished that much.

Instead they took advantage of a faint electronic echo produced by the Soviet communications equipment to read the traffic in plain text.

Instead, the Task Force decided to institute a summer parking ban in the area, to bar eastbound traffic on major holidays, and to increase fines for parking in the area.

Instead a network of secondary roads serves local traffic: the B6054, B6056, B6057 and B6158.

Instead of directly intersecting US 9, NY 2 meets a series of ramps leading to and from the road while US 9 itself crosses under the circle, allowing for a continuous flow of traffic on US 9.

Instead, Nelson Street carries southbound traffic onto the bridge, and Smithe Street carries northbound traffic away from the bridge.

Instead they decided to put the unrenovated Kahleberg into traffic on January 21.

Instead, traffic efficiency and land space are maximized by having traffic lights on terrestrial roads, as well as the usage of interchanges such as stack interchanges.

Instead, Outer Loop traffic must use the eastbound Dulles Access Road exit 3 miles ( 5 km ) to the north in order to reach I-66 East.

Instead of a direct connection, traffic must use on and off ramps ( United States, Australia, New Zealand ) or slip roads ( United Kingdom, Ireland ) to access the other roads at the junction.

Instead the traffic flatted out and the old main terminal was converted to a helicopter terminal.

Instead of a standard left turn being made from the left lane, left-turning traffic uses a ramp on the right side of the road.

Instead of using that form of the constraint, the monotonically increasing resistance function used in traffic assignment can be used.

Instead, the Panhandle is bordered by wide, one-way streets, with traffic lights timed to allow cars to move continuously at 25 miles per hour.

Instead, the Act included a facilitations clause which required the SER to handle the EKR traffic ‘ as expeditiously as its own between Strood and London Bridge .’ At the same time, in return for the minor re-routing of the proposed line at Strood, the EKR received a major concession from the SER in the form of an undertaking to Parliament that they would not oppose any future plan to extend the line to Dover.

Instead of travelling along a single avenue or axis road Line 4 traffic will circulate around the Centro Histórico.

Instead, he ruled through a ' nominated assembly ' which he believed would be easy for the Army to control, since Army officers did the nominating.

Instead of following the remaining Carthaginians at sea, Duilius sailed to Sicily to retrieve control of the troops.

Instead, the Reichsgut was increasingly pawned to local dukes, sometimes to raise money for the Empire, but more frequently to reward faithful duty or as an attempt to establish control over the dukes.

Instead, the Ottoman Navy spent the first two months of the war in operations against the Bulgarians in the Black Sea, giving the Greeks valuable time to complete their preparations and allowing them to consolidate their control of the Aegean.

Instead of seeking to administer the empire through counts, as Charlemagne had done and as his successors had attempted, Henry allowed the dukes of Franconia, Swabia and Bavaria to maintain complete internal control of their holdings.

Instead, the helicopters were landed facing the control tower and at the centre of the airstrip.

Instead of user passwords, access control is based on the user's access to a network resource.

Instead of the movable hafnium-based control rods used in all of the other United States Naval reactors, reactivity in the S7G core was controlled by stationary gadolinium-clad tubes partially filled with water.

Instead, by entering the Union, Texas was found to have surrendered control over the water and the soil under it to Congress.

Instead, a simpler transient encoding technique called gain control is used, in which the gain of different subbands is varied during a transient prior to MDCT and then restored during decoding after the inverse MDCT to try to smooth over transients.

Instead, any PCI component can request control of the bus (" become the bus master ") and request to read from and write to system memory.

Instead, the traditional command-line interface ( CLI ) is still used when full control over the OS is required in such cases.

Instead they are used to adjust the level of analog signals ( for example volume controls on audio equipment ), and as control inputs for electronic circuits.

Instead every machine could be equipped with its own electric motor, providing easy control at the point of use, and improving power transmission efficiency.

Instead of myopia being caused by a defect in a structural protein, defects in the control of these structural proteins might be the actual cause of myopia.

Instead of securing the tie with knots, the constable held on to the free end of the rope and walked behind the prisoner to keep him or her under control as the prisoner was taken for an interrogation which could involve the application of one or more forms of judicial torture to elicit a confession.

Instead, it means work to control the mind and release the self.

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 he returned to find that Maj. Gen. Charles T. Menoher, an artilleryman who had commanded the Rainbow Division in France, had been appointed director on the recommendation of his classmate General Pershing, to maintain operational control of aviation by the ground forces.

Instead of compiling whole functions, TraceMonkey is a tracing JIT that operates by recording control flow and data types during interpreter execution.

Instead, the Eastern Church has emphasized the role of the Holy Spirit in the Christian's life and has maintained ascetic disciplines such as fasting and prayer ( the minimum fast obligatory on Orthodox faithful is two days weekly ), not as a way to make satisfaction for past sins or to build up merit, but as a means of spiritual discipline to help reduce one's susceptibility to temptation in the future to exercise self control, and to avoid being enslaved to one's passions and desires.

Instead, war immediately broke out across the country as Serb and Yugoslav Army forces took control of large areas of Bosnia against the opposition of poorly-equipped government security forces.

Instead, members of the control group — individuals who had had no prior arousal — demonstrated significant differences in their stories, some writing stories with a high achievement content and some submitting stories with a low achievement content.

Instead they selected Cárdenas to be the ruling party's presidential candidate, and Calles went along with it, thinking he could control him as he had the previous two.