Instead of trapping precipitation, which then percolates to groundwater systems, deforested areas become sources of surface water runoff, which moves much faster than subsurface flows.

Instead, they communicate by slapping the water and grunting.

Instead, the plate rolls against a cylinder covered with a rubber blanket, which squeezes away the water, picks up the ink and transfers it to the paper with uniform pressure.

Instead, a large hatch was cut into the stern, thereby allowing the tanks to drive directly into deep water before turning under their own motive power and heading towards shore.

David prevents his associates from killing Saul, because doing so would prove the former no more worthy than the latter ; Instead, David merely steals Saul's spear and water jug.

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 of water, other types of liquids, such as dairy products, fruit juices, or beer, may be used ; they contribute additional sweeteners, fats, or leavening components, as well as water.

Instead, the eggs form layers called " rafts " that float on the water.

Instead, most rely on maintaining a constant water flow through their bodies to obtain food, oxygen and remove wastes.

Instead, the two of them end up saving the day together when the water of the dam becomes unprotected and it almost engulfs the Netherlands.

Instead of drilling all the way into the water, they said they would stop just above it when a sensor on the thermal drill detected free water.

Instead, Readick did, using a water glass next to his mouth for the echo effect.

Instead they chose to study the amounts and uses of existing water withdrawals and to develop a reporting system to gather this information.

Instead, highly distilled ethanol from sweet potatoes and tapioca was mixed with water, flavoring, and sweetener to create soju.

Instead, before performances he soaked his fingers in hot water.

" Instead, however, " he inequality gap is the widest it's been since 1929 ; the middle class is besieged and the working poor are barely keeping their heads above water.

Instead, the water level would be higher or lower depending on the particular strength of gravity in that location.

Instead, the bishop handed to him an empty chalice and paten, his vestments, cruets of wine and water, and the Book of the Epistles.

Instead of telling the truth to Apollo, he lied and said that a snake, Hydra, kept him from the water, while holding a snake in his talons as proof.

Instead of drinking liquor straight / neat ( without a mixer ), soda water and carbonated soft drinks helped dilute alcohol, and made having a drink more socially acceptable.

Instead of using hot air to dry the clothing, mechanical steam compression dryers use water recovered from the clothing in the form of steam.

Instead, these clocks measured time " by the weight of water flowing from " it.

Instead it taught ancient languages ( Greek and Latin ) and their cultures.

Instead, the migration led to the establishment of a long-lived Celtic territory in central Anatolia, which included the eastern part of ancient Phrygia, a territory that became known as Galatia.

Instead the papacy confined itself ( see Prisoner in the Vatican ) to the Apostolic Palace and adjacent buildings in the loop of the ancient fortifications known as the Leonine City, on Vatican Hill.

Instead Newton studied the accounts of ancient writers like Pliny to obtain the approximate size and location of the memorial, then bought a plot of land in the most likely location.

Instead he studied engravings especially monuments of ancient Rome and reconstructions of the Temple of Solomon.

Instead, the only Hindu title which is commonly rendered as Emperor is Samraat or Samraj ( a ), a personal distinction achieved by a few rulers of ancient dynasties such as the Mauryas and Guptas ; the Muslim equivalent of emperor would be Padshah, applied to the Mughal dynasty.

Instead, they published articles discussing ancient history, including the Peloponnesian War as veiled allegories of the contemporary conflict.

Instead of being used for ritual or status purposes, tattooed marks began to be placed on criminals as a punishment ( this was mirrored in ancient Rome, where slaves were known to have been tattooed with mottoes such as " I am a slave who has run away from his master ").

Instead, they derive from the structure of the armies of ancient Rome.

Instead of mimicking only the horizontal flow of the Kokinshū, the poems in the New Collection also make vertical links to the poetic traditions of the past, and by borrowing from specific poems and not simply from stock phrases, the authors and editors of the poems in the Shin Kokinshū were able to step away from overused and more clearly unoriginal topics that ancient poems had popularized.

Instead they mark the hamlet of High Oxspring alongside the top road and they show the position of the former Manor House or Lodge, which until recently was marked on Ordnance Survey maps in the special letters used to indicate an ancient place.

Instead, he proposed that ancient buildings should be protected, not restored, so that their entire history would be preserved as cultural heritage.

Instead of thinking in terms of artificial divisions of " now " and " back then ", readers should develop an intuitive mindset of graduated changes in which the " fossils " of the ancient past are intermingled with contemporary objects ; for instance, the " oxygen holocaust " of the paleoproterozoic eon exists in today's oxygen-rich atmosphere.

Instead of praising Confucius and the ideology attributed to him, many Jesuits, led by Joachim Bouvet ( who first arrived to China in 1688 ), focused on China's earliest classic, I Ching, which Bouvet viewed as the oldest written work in the world, containing " precious vestiges from the remains of the most ancient and excellent philosophy taught by the first patriarchs of the world ".

Instead, they openly displayed the naked face of Imperial power, adopting a Hellenistic style of government more influenced by the veneration of the Eastern potentates of ancient Egypt and Persia than by the heritage of civic collegiality amongst the Roman governing class passed down from the days of the " uncrowned " Roman Republic.

Instead of giving the modes the names used by the ancient Greeks as well as Boethius ( Dorian, Phrygian, etc.

" Instead of treating the characters as deities, they are allocated the roles of being historical heroes who sometimes have supernatural or superhuman powers, for instance, in the Irish sources the gods are claimed to be an ancient tribe of humans known as the Tuatha Dé Danann.

Instead of going to Italy or Paris, Ryabushkin chose to make a tour of ancient Russian towns ( Novgorod, Kiev, Moscow, Uglich, Yaroslavl ).

Instead of freeing Jews from oppressors and thereby fulfilling God's ancient promises — for land, nationhood, kingship, and blessing — Jesus died a " shameful " death, defeated by the very political powers the Messiah was prophesied to overcome.