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 a weighted lure, a fly rod uses the weight of the fly line for casting, and lightweight rods are capable of casting the very smallest and lightest fly.

Instead he permanently attached the knife blades to the rod, and adjusted the periods of the pendulum by a small moveable weight < font color =" red ">( b, c )</ font > on the pendulum shaft.

Instead of going up in weight, like most boxers throughout history have done after losing the title in their original division, Ortiz went down in weight, and challenged world champion Joe Brown ( also a member of the International Boxing Hall Of Fame ).

Instead of everyone falling the same standard distance, the person's height and weight were used to determine how much slack would be provided in the rope so that the distance dropped would be enough to ensure that the neck was broken, but not so much that the person was decapitated.

Instead of making a proper flan or planchet, a lump of silver of proper weight and fineness was hacked off the end of a silver bar, then flattened and impressed by a hammer.

Instead, the weight of the evidence suggests that the pleasure center of the human brain is not a single center but rather a distributed system of brain regions of which important nodes include subcortical regions ( such as the nucleus accumbens and ventral pallidum ) and cortical regions ( orbitofrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex ).

* Thin mirrors: Instead of costly Pyrex mirror blanks with the standard 1: 6 thickness ratios ( 1 cm thick for every 6 cm in diameter ) so they won't flex and sag out of shape under their own weight, Dobson used mirrors made out of surplus glass ship porthole covers usually with 1: 16 thickness ratios.

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

Instead of a steel shot, a large stone of variable weight is often used.

Instead, they should be placed by nationality and weight.

Instead of pressurized containers, the components were hung on the inside of the cylindrical wall, achieving a reduction in weight.

Instead of a weight belt there is a weight pouch at the back, full of lead shot 38 mm (= 1. 5 inches ) in diameter.

Instead of taking the max or min of the utility values of their children, chance nodes take a weighted average, with the weight being the probability that that child is reached.

Instead, Roscius led a mutiny which forced Trebellius to flee, and threw his weight behind Vitellius, sending units from Legio XX to fight for him.

Instead of the active ingredient orlistat, the counterfeit drugs contain sibutramine, and at concentrations at least twice the amount recommended for weight loss.

Instead, the pilot adjusts a longitudinal trim control ( often in the form of a wheel ) to cancel out control forces for a given airspeed / weight distribution.

Instead of fighting individual battles in large skirmishes, hoplites fought as cohesive units in this tight formation with their shields pushing forward against the man in front ( to use weight of numbers ). The left half of the shield was designed to cover the unprotected right side of the hoplite next to them.

Instead, it utilized a much smaller weight that was entirely integrated into the chassis of the movement.

Instead of landing on the hands during the handspring, the player's weight is momentarily supported entirely by the ball.

Instead of concluding that the Iowa Gambling Task is not fully accurate in demonstrating how we have psychologically evolved, it can be determined that sexual risk is a complex neurocognitive process, and emotional variables do not have as much weight in this aspect as in others actions by humans.

Instead of attempting the impossible, why not a publicity campaign to prove that all the tiger's stripes are not black??

Instead, all of the total costs are treated as variable costs, although these costs are divided into costs that are deemed to be functions of different variables.

Instead, all services had names which, being chosen by humans, could be expected to be meaningful to users, and also could be sufficiently long enough to minimize the chance of conflicts.

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

Instead, from 1 January 1923, almost all the remaining companies were grouped into the " big four ", the Great Western Railway, the London and North Eastern Railway, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the Southern Railway companies ( there were also a number of other joint railways such as the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway and the Cheshire Lines Committee as well as special joint railways such as the Forth Bridge Railway, Ryde Pier Railway and at one time the East London Railway ).

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 '.

Instead of attempting to defend all of southern China, Li ordered what remained of the Nationalist armies to withdraw to Guangxi and Guangdong, hoping that he could concentrate all available defenses on this smaller, and more easily defensible, area.

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 Government of India exercised its right of parens patriae to appropriate all the claims of the victims and proceeded to litigate on their behalf, first in the New York courts and later, in the Indian courts.

Instead of a mere reproduction of the Cyclopaedia, he persuaded Le Breton to enter upon a new work, which would collect all the active writers, ideas, and knowledge that were moving the cultivated class of the Republic of Letters to its depths but were comparatively ineffectual due to their dispersion.

* Instead of oral laws known to a special class, arbitrarily applied and interpreted, all laws were written, thus made known to all literate citizens ( who could make appeal to the Areopagus for injustices ): "... the constitution formed under Draco, when the first code of laws was drawn up.

Instead, these parsers just provide to the application the parsed FPI and / or URI associated to the notations found in the parsed SGML or XML document, and with a facility for a dictionary containing all notation names declared in the DTD ; these validating parsers will also check the uniqueness of notation name declarations, and will report a validation error if some notation names are used anywhere in the DTD or in the document body but not declared:

Instead, the sisters chanted the Divine Office and kept all the monastic observances.

Instead, education officials across the world believe that by setting clear, achievable, higher standards, aligning the curriculum, and assessing outcomes, learning can be increased for all students, and more students can succeed than the 50 percent who are defined to be above or below grade level by norm referenced standards.

Instead, women were taught to be committed to their husbands and " all his interests … show attention and care … sincere and discreet zeal for his salvation.

Instead of most days having an associated saint as in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints, each day has an animal ( days ending in 5 ), a tool ( days ending in 0 ) or else a plant or mineral ( all other days ).< ref >

Instead of all nodes being considered equal, nodes entering into the network were kept at the ' edge ' of the network as a leaf, not responsible for any routing, and nodes which were capable of routing messages were promoted to ultrapeers, which would accept leaf connections and route searches and network maintenance messages.

Instead, for Fichte, if the ' I ' is to set itself off at all, it must simply discover itself to be limited, a discovery that Fichte characterizes as a repulse or resistance ( Anstoss ) to the free practical activity of the I.

Instead, the political institutions of the Länder were practically abolished altogether, passing all powers to the central government.

Instead it states that all those condemned at the last judgement, but who subsequently respond in faith, who demonstrate unfeigned penitence, and who make a free choice of blessedness, will eventually be offered salvation ( Chapter 137 ).

Instead, he aggressively pursued plans to move all Indian tribes living east of the Mississippi River to west of the Mississippi.

Instead, Carson fought when necessary, to round up and take prisoner all the Navajo he could find, to force them to go to Bosque Redondo, also called Fort Sumner.

Instead all resources might just be put into a couple of wide classes ( Travel, Crime, Magazines etc .).