Rather, the sample is evaporated in a controlled manner ( field evaporation ) and the evaporated ions are impacted onto a detector, which may be up to several meters from the specimen.

Rather, we may form the set of all objects that have a given property and lie in some given set ( Zermelo's Axiom of Separation ).

Rather, they may have been built to divert flood waters.

Rather than being a modern legal code or constitution, it may have as its purpose the self-glorification of Hammurabi by memorializing his wisdom and justice.

Rather, evil spirits described in various faiths ' traditions, such as Satan, fallen angels, demons, and jinns, are metaphors for the base character traits a human being may acquire and manifest when he turns away from God and follows his lower nature.

Rather than continue to struggle to find out exactly what is causing the bug and how to fix it, the programmer may hack the problem by the simple kludge of writing new code which compensates.

Rather than merely identifying and adding the costs of a project, one may also identify the next best alternative way to spend the same amount of money.

Rather, other midrashic sources may sometimes serve as a key to particularly esoteric discussions.

Rather than issuing a single letter or number to summarize an entire term's achievements, an OBE system may require that the teacher track and report dozens of separate outcomes.

Rather than being fully allegorical, however, a poem may contain symbols or allusions that deepen the meaning or effect of its words without constructing a full allegory.

Rather than appearing as a breaking wave, a tsunami may instead initially resemble a rapidly rising tide, and for this reason they are often referred to as tidal waves.

Rather than simply being flat discs, these lighting and observation windows may be curved to match the cross-section of the tunnel and further reduce turbulence around the window.

Dr. Kellner stated " Rather than cause brain damage, there is evidence that ECT may reverse some of the damaging effects of serious psychiatric illness.

" 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, it is confusing the notions of convergence in R < nowiki ></ nowiki > X < nowiki ></ nowiki > and convergence in R ; indeed, the ring R may not even contain any number e with the appropriate properties.

Rather, the writing system is roughly logosyllabic ; that is, a character generally represents one syllable of spoken Chinese and may be a word on its own or a part of a polysyllabic word.

Rather late in the design process, Fouquet and Le Vau switched to stone, a decision that may have been influenced by the use of stone at François Mansart's Château de Maisons.

Rather, it means that even the good which a person may intend is faulty in its premise, false in its motive, and weak in its implementation ; and there is no mere refinement of natural capacities that can correct this condition.

Rather, Cavendish states, she wrote simply to pass time and expects that her work may be read for the same purpose.

Rather than risk losing their winnings, as one of them would if the game were continued, these two players may be allowed to split the prize proportional to their in-game currency ( or however they agree ).

Rather than the entire principal amount of the loan being due at the end of the loan, the principal may be slowly repaid or " amortized " over the course of the loan – see amortizing loan.

Rather, the variations decide what the theme may have to offer them.

Rather, members of dynasties are usually referred to by their titles, which may or may not also be hereditary.

Rather than viewing the abortive recovery in 1959-60 as a reason for believing we have lost prospects for growth '', he said `` it should be viewed as a lesson well learned which will increase the probability of substantial improvement in this recovery ''.

His poems have been parodied many times, including with the books When We Were Rather Older and Now We Are Sixty.

Rather than analysing the site and seeing which targets appear popular, archaeoastronomers have instead examined the ethnographic records to see what features of the sky were important to the Mayans and then sought archaeological correlates.

Rather, the bishop is head of a titular see, which is usually an ancient city that used to have a bishop, but, for some reason or other, does not have one now.

Rather, in modern times, the various autonomous houses have formed themselves loosely into congregations ( for example, Cassinese, English, Solesmes, Subiaco, Camaldolese, Sylvestrines ) that in turn are represented in the Benedictine Confederation that came into existence through Pope Leo XIII's Apostolic Brief " Summum semper " on July 12, 1883.

Rather than going to Mexico, Corbett is believed to have settled in a cabin he built in the forests near Hinckley, Minnesota.

Rather, the Doric and Ionic orders seem to have appeared at around the same time, the Ionic in eastern Greece and the Doric in the west and mainland.

Rather than have each computer application implement these from scratch, they can rely on the DBMS to supply such calculations.

Rather than invite such skepticism, Fichte made the radical suggestion that we should throw out the notion of a noumenal world and instead accept the fact that consciousness does not have a grounding in a so-called " real world ".

Rather, the list is intended to spark a national conversation on books written by Americans that have influenced our lives, whether they appear on this initial list or not.

Rather, the other Pythons have said that Chapman's biggest contribution in the writing room was an intuition as to what was funny.

Rather, we have them precisely because of that history.

Rather than employing method actors, he prefers unknown talent who have had some of the life experience of the characters they portray.

Rather, as we want to reaffirm in conclusion, they provide strong grounds for hope that God will save infants when we have not been able to do for them what we would have wished to do, namely, to baptize them into the faith and life of the Church.

This approach is presumed to have been employed in the case of Dan Rather over a story that he ran on 60 Minutes in the month prior to the 2004 election that attempted to impugn the military record of George W. Bush by relying on allegedly fake documents that were provided by Bill Burkett, a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the Texas Army National Guard.

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 have a single solution to the maze, Bright's routing often offered multiple equally valid routes from start to finish, with no loss of complexity or diminishment of solver difficulties because the result was that it became difficult for a solver to definitively " rule out " a particular pathway as unproductive.

Rather than Jesus ' above-mentioned comments on the " poor you will always have with you ", here he tells his host the Parable of the Two Debtors.

Rather than agree to this, the production team decided to find a new house, and the first episode of the second series was rewritten to have the Meldrews ' house destroyed in a fire.

Rather, according to Kuhn, anomalies have various levels of significance to the practitioners of science at the time.