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 he believed he had rediscovered first century beliefs from the Bible alone, and sought to prove that through a process of challenge and debate and writing journals.

Rather, they sought to gain popular support by backing causes popular with Albanians, especially the annexation of Kosovo.

" Rather than capturing realist images of people and the landscape, they sought to capture the true meaning of their subjects.

Rather than recognizing territories of the Austrian-Hungarian empire solely within the principles of self-determination, Clemenceau sought to weaken Hungary just as Germany and remove the threat of such a large power within Central Europe.

Rather than viewing populism in terms of specific social bases, economic programs, issues, or electorates — as discussions of right-wing populism have tended to do — this type of definition is in line with the approaches of scholars such as Ernesto Laclau, Pierre-Andre Taguieff, Yves Meny and Yves Surel, who have all sought to focus on populism per se, rather than treating it simply as an appendage of other ideologies.

Rather than reform the state as a concession to populism, he sought to accommodate the emancipatory groups, first in his pursuit of coalitions with Socialist and Catholic movements, and finally, at the end of his political life, in a failed courtship with Fascism.

Rather he sought something quite different — a movement in its own right, with its own identity and program.

Rather, 43 Group sought to prevent the BUF mobilising and gathering support, remembering that the Nazi party had gained prominence in a similar fashion as the Brownshirts on the streets of post-WWI Germany.

Rather than abstaining from Free State politics entirely, he now sought to republicanise it from within.

Rather than conventional therapy, Wail sought consultation with Muslim clerics, and hoped that a visit to Medina would help.

Rather than explore this phenomenon, Hartmann sought ways to eliminate it.

Rather, they were Thai traditionalists, who sought to restore the prestige of the monarchy and to maintain a society based on order, hierarchy and religion.

Rather than simply organising the ditch diggers into one craft union and the dirt movers into another craft union, trade unionists sought to organise all people who moved earth into one union.

“ Gordin successfully challenged Lateiner and Hurwitz in 1891-1892 when he entered the Yiddish theatre with an avowed purpose of reforming Yiddish drama .” Rather than “ pandering to the public's taste for cheap shund ( trash ) plays, he sought to secure goodwill of the East Side ’ s intelligentsia with literatur and increasingly incorporated the concepts of “ true art ” and “ serious drama ” into their public image .” Professional companies soon developed and flourished, so that between 1890 and 1940, there were over 200 Yiddish theaters or touring Yiddish theater troupes in the United States.

Rather than train professionals in jargon and strict practice, humanists sought to create a citizenry ( including, sometimes, women ) able to speak and write with eloquence and clarity.

Rather, " Arab Jews " as a term was created no earlier than the rise of secular ethnic nationalism in the early twentieth century, when many Jews sought integration into the new national identities ( Iraqi, Tunisian etc.

Rather than being afraid, she shows him the kindness he has also sought, and he gets acquainted with her.

Rather than interpret the First Amendment to require the exemption that Smith and Black sought, the Court encouraged them to seek redress in the legislature.

Rather than create an organized religion, the foundation's leadership opted for what they called " slow growth "; early adherents sought to educate people about the book's teachings rather than found a church-like organization.

Rather than pursue individual police officers, he sought to hold the authority, the police chief, to account and he held that Zörgiebel had ordered the police to use truncheons and live ammunition against the demonstrators.

Rather than calling the defendants to the witness stand, their legal team sought to use the special defence of incrimination against the person or persons they believed were guilty of the crime.

Rather than attempting to take the land from the Lamanites by force, Zeniff sought to establish peaceful relations by treaty.

Rather than providing direct support for the imperial campaign against Li Keyong, Zhu Quanzhong at this time sought expand his own authority northwards.

Rather they are charges that are easy for Loki to make and difficult for his targets to disprove, or which they do not care to refute.

Rather they are charges that are easy for Loki to make and difficult for his targets to disprove, or which they do not care to refute.

During the segment, Dan Rather asserted that the documents had been authenticated by document experts, but ultimately, CBS could neither confirm nor definitively refute their authenticity.

Rather, the orator also had to have at his command a wide body of knowledge to permit improvisation, to respond to questions, and to refute opposing arguments.

Rather than a conquest of the Picts, instead the idea of Pictish matrilineal succession, mentioned by Bede and apparently the only way to make sense of the list of Kings of the Picts found in the Pictish Chronicle, advanced the idea that Kenneth was a Gael, and a king of Dál Riata, who had inherited the throne of Pictland through a Pictish mother.

Rather than focus on narrow debates about the true nature of mathematical truth, or even on practices unique to mathematicians such as the proof, a growing movement from the 1960s to the 1990s began to question the idea of seeking foundations or finding any one right answer to why mathematics works.

Rather than " invasion ", German and Slavic scholars use the term " migration " (, and ), aspiring to the idea of a dynamic and “ wandering Indo-Germanic people ”.

Rather, a future that fulfills on the fundamental concerns of the relevant parties indicates the future that wasn ’ t going to happen is not the “ idea of the leader ”, but rather is what emerges from digging deep to find the underlying concerns of those who are impacted by the leadership.

Rather, the idea was rooted in the problems of French society subsequent to the revolution of 1789.

Rather than maintain an ‘ inward-looking ’ economy, the idea of catching up can be much faster with strong competition rather than the domestic competition of people with similar levels of human capital.

Rather than fusing the common law and equity, which he saw as impracticable since it would destroy the idea of trusts, he decided to fuse the courts and the procedure.

* Rather than the purpose as well as the method of the raid being Wallis ' sole idea, the dams had already been identified as an important target by the Air Ministry before the war.

Rather, it merges these concepts and additionally carries the idea of the consequent creation of new cultural phenomena ( neoculturation ).

Rather than being relieved, Campbell feels " nauseated " by the idea that he will be saved from death and granted freedom when he is no longer able to take pleasure in anything life has to offer.

Rather, he employed the idea of a climax community -- of the form of vegetation best adapted to some idealized set of environmental conditions -- as a conceptual starting point for describing the vegetation in a given area.

Rather they reveal an idea of what life should be, seen from a Brahmin perspective.

Rather, the consent of the governed and the idea of the people as a sovereign had clear 17th and 18th century intellectual roots in English history.

Rather than claiming lots on the relatively flat and untreed " prairies " along the east side of the Courtenay River like the other settlers, Robb and his son pre-empted 262 acres of steep and heavily-forested land along the shore of the bay, with the idea of clearing the land, building a dock and then selling town lots for the village that would inevitably spring up at the site.

" Rather than patenting the hand stereopticon and profiting from its success, Holmes gave the idea away.

Rather than create a wholly new organization, which would have immediately found itself fighting other unions in the CFL over jurisdiction, Foster hit on the idea of creating a Stockyards Labor Council that, like the railroad federations that had recently come into being, would fuse all of the interested unions into a single body with the ability to organize the industry as a whole.

Rather, the idea was to produce a democratic piece of music ; one in which anyone could take part, and influence the outcome.

Rather than tell his audience what words are supposed to mean, he opens them up for interpretation, presenting the idea that “ meanings are not tethered to words like horses to hitching posts ” ( Holmberg 61 ).

Rather than discard the motherboards, the vice president sold Osborne leadership on the idea of building them into complete units and selling them.

Rather, Arnoldi belongs to a class of linear algebra algorithms ( based on the idea of Krylov subspaces ) that give a partial result after a relatively small number of iterations.

Rather, the public seemed to be divided with forty-five percent siding in its favor, forty-five percent opposed to the idea for its ability to potentially interfere with ordinary citizen ’ s messages, and ten percent claiming indifference.

Rather than have one permanent host, Michaels elected to have a different guest host each week ( Albert Brooks was originally booked to be a permanent host, and claims it was his idea to have a different host each week ).

Rather, the idea is to reverse the effects of dynamic range compression.