Rather memorable performances are given by Alastair Sim, playing Julius Sagamore, the head of the millionairess ’ s business empire, Vittorio de Sica as Joe, the proprietor of a pasta production sweatshop, and Alfie Bass as a self-employed Cockney fish curer.

Rather than a definition in terms of the force between two current-carrying wires, it has been proposed to define the ampere in terms of the rate of flow of elementary charges.

Rather than having only six strings, the 12-string guitar has six courses made up of two strings each, like a mandolin or lute.

Rather than harmonics which are exact multiples of the fundamental, as generated by organ pipes, the Hammond organ uses the nearest-available frequencies generated by tonewheels, a factor which has some part in creating its distinctive tone color.

Rather than being an exception, then, it has been the rule.

Rather, it is derived from the more basic standard of rightness, consequentialism: what is right is what has the best consequences ( usually measured by the total or average welfare caused ).

Rather, at every turn, brain design has been a kludge, a workaround, a jumble, a pastiche.

Rather, it has argued that love relations that are freely entered into should not be regulated by law.

Rather, an MC firm has market power because it has relatively few competitors, those competitors do not engage in strategic decision making and the firms sells differentiated product.

Rather than having a specific message for any of his films, Pyryev promoted Stalin ’ s slogan “ life has become better, life has become more joyous .” Sometimes this message was in stark contrast with the reality of the time.

Rather, the self has opportunity for maturation based on its encounters with this world.

Rather, the principal of their socialty, as Pierre Clastres has put it, is fundamentally against the state.

Rather, the book has a therapeutic aim.

Rather than propose a single definition for ubiquitous computing and for these related terms, a taxonomy of properties for ubiquitous computing has been proposed, from which different kinds or flavors of ubiquitous systems and applications can be described.

Rather than a procedural paradigm, where a single program has a loop that is activated only one time, the declarative paradigm used by Jess continuously applies a collection of rules to a collection of facts by a process called pattern matching.

Rather, he is Hungarian by birth and has tried to erase all ties to countries throughout his desert explorations.

Rather than create a new gravitational field, however, the device utilizes a doughnut-shaped Laguerre-Gaussian laser beam, which has a high intensity ring of light that surrounds a dark core along the beam axis ; once a particle has been trapped within the beam, the device uses air pressure differences and heat to move the particle from one point to another.

" Rather, the purpose of humanity is to be tested: " Who has created death and life, that He may test you which of you is best in deed.

Rather than the traditional reptilian look associated with dragons, Smaug's face in the animated version has distinctly mammalian wolf-like features like fur and canine teeth.

Rather than be buried with her husband Ralph ( who was not buried with his first wife, though his monument has effigies of himself and his two wives ) she was entombed next to her mother in the magnificent sanctuary of Lincoln Cathedral.

Rather than cutout V-shaped slot openings as in the Apple II and II Plus, the IIe has a variety of different sized openings, with thumb-screw holes, to accommodate mounting interface cards with DB-xx and DE-xx connectors ( removable plastic covers filled the cutouts if not used ).

Rather, Alcidas leads his fleet to Cyllene where the Spartans resolve to strengthen the fleet and send it to Corcyra where a revolution has broken out.

Rather, it has its own Mongolian style of horse racing in which the horses run for at least a distance of 25 kilometers.

Rather than claim that the Not-I is the cause or ground of the Anstoss, Fichte argues that non-I is set up by the I precisely in order to explain to itself the anstoss, that is, in order to become conscious of anstoss.

Rather than purchasing a special purpose rifle, which many novice hunters would outgrow within a few hunting seasons, a single rifle can be used with special handloaded rounds until such time more powerful rounds are desired and become appropriate.

Rather, they mean that if 1, 000 women have unprotected intercourse in the middle two weeks of their menstrual cycles, approximately 80 will become pregnant.

Rather than import manufactured goods from the empire's great urban areas, they began to manufacture many goods locally, often on their own estates, thus beginning the self-sufficient " house economy " that would become commonplace in later centuries, reaching its final form in the Middle Ages ' manorialism.

Rather, God is said to be the sum of all natural processes that allow man to become self-fulfilled.

Rather than become sidetracked with the issues of the time, Antigone remains completely focused on the characters and themes within the play.

After her unsuccessful co-anchoring stint with Dan Rather ended in 1995, Chung jumped to ABC News where she co-hosted the Monday edition of 20 / 20 with Charles Gibson and began independent interviews, a field which would soon become her trademark.

Rather than become a mere imitator of the great man, he chose instead a pedantic teacher, Dr C. H.

" Rather Be ", the second single from the album, was released in November 2008 but did not become as successful as " Love Is Noise " was, peaking at number 56 on the UK Singles Chart.

Rather than extend all his powers at once, the Black Mountain Yogi warned, he should endeavour to become a " spiritual seeker who has renounced family life ", a monk.

Rather than become involved in the early 90s system wars, SNK Corporation in Japan jointly with SNK Corporation of America chose to refocus their efforts on the arcade market, leaving other third parties, such as Romstar and Takara, to license and port SNK's properties to the various home consoles of the time with help from SNK's American home entertainment division.

Rather, Lam's intention was to depict a spiritual state — that which is surely inspired by Santería ; he sheds light on the absurdity that has become Afro-Cuban culture and more specifically on the way their traditions were cheapened for tourism.

Rather, the LDS believe that to become as God means to overcome the world through the atonement of Jesus Christ ( see 1 John 5: 4 — 5 ; Revelation 2: 7, 11 ).

Rather than submit to his wish for her to be sent to boarding school to conform to contemporary feminine social mores, Enola instead runs away to secretly become a private detective in London while eluding her brothers.

Rather, the true circumcision in spirit has become profitable in every respect.

Rather than genetic laws, information and communication have become major driving forces of cultural evolution ( see Finke 2005, 2006 ).

Rather than become wasteful automatic energy saving technologies, real-time energy monitors and meters such as the Energy Detective, Enigin Plc's Eniscope, Ecowizard, or solutions like EDSA ' a Paladin Live are examples of such solutions

Rather than simply blending the colors together, a morph is able to gradually reshape an object to become another object, creating a much stronger connection than a simple dissolve can provide.

Rather than have the flag remade, Annie Wells Cannon introduced HJR 1 and the Utah legislature changed the law to allow the changes found on the 1913 version to become part of the official flag.

Rather, the same body will undergo a corporate restructure, and the same legal entity will become the independent commission-thus maintaining continuity and tradition in terms of the game's administration, since 1924.

Rather, the true circumcision in spirit has become profitable in every respect.

Rather than using their folk roots, however, Zambians attempted to become pop stars.