Rather confusingly, genre works, especially when referring to the painting of the Dutch Golden Age and Flemish Baroque painting-the great periods of genre works-may also be used as an umbrella term for painting in various specialized categories such as still-life, marine painting, architectural painting and animal painting, as well as genre scenes proper where the emphasis is on human figures.

Rather, the core system has been presented in a variety of formats that have been adapted by various publishers ( both Wizards of the Coast and third-party ) to specific settings and genres, much like the Basic Role-Playing system common to early games by veteran RPG publisher Chaosium.

Rather than launch an appeal, the publishers of the magazine came to an agreement with Donovan over the damages he was awarded.

Rather, it is typical of the thousands of quacks who use phony therapeutic devices to fatten themselves on the miseries of hundreds of thousands of Americans by robbing them of millions of dollars and luring them away from legitimate, ethical medical treatment of serious diseases.

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 earning their living on vast farms as the monasteries had done, the new friars would survive by begging, " selling " themselves through persuasive preaching.

Rather, they tended to identify themselves as Australians.

Rather, neutral monism claims the universe consists of only one kind of stuff, in the form of neutral elements that are in themselves neither mental nor physical.

Rather, Husserl argued that all that philosophy could and should be a description of experience ( hence the phenomenological slogan, " to the things themselves ").

Rather, they attempt to provide these resources themselves.

Rather than having it professionally recorded, the band built their own solar-powered studio in Sacramento over five years and chose to produce the album themselves there.

Rather than an accurate account of Jesus ' relationship to Pharisees and other Jewish leaders, this view holds that the Gospels instead reflect the competition and conflict between early Christians and Pharisees for leadership of the Jews, or reflects Christian attempts to distance themselves from Jews in order to present themselves in a more sympathetic ( and benign ) light to Romans and other Gentiles — thus making them a biased source concerning the conduct of the Pharisees.

Rather, the human experience and mind are themselves a tiny fragment of this truth.

Rather than wait to be arrested, they boldly turned themselves in as an act of defiance.

Rather than banding together, the various Hellenic powers continued to fight among themselves, sapping the financial and military strength of Greece and to a lesser extent, Macedon and the greater Hellenic world.

Rather, it proposes that the notions of " real " and " unreal " are themselves social constructs, so that the question of whether anything is " real " is just a matter of social convention.

Rather they use cultural differentiators and consider themselves as Kurds, along with all Kurmanji, Sorani speakers.

Rather than killing large animals themselves for meat, they used carcasses of large animals killed by other predators or carcasses from animals that died by natural causes.

Rather, they place themselves on one end of a scale between sustainability and growth.

Rather than try to answer certain flawed questions, he questions the assumptions of the questions themselves and undermines them.

Rather than visions themselves, these poems serve as a commentary on their source.

Rather than build a bush fortress, he proposed establishing an open village where his people could defend themselves with spiritual powers.

Rather than being on the cutting edge of technological innovation, product development, and market dynamics ; a defender tries to insulate themselves from changes wherever possible.

Rather than reflecting light back that is generated externally, the markers themselves are powered to emit their own light.

Rather than to " arrogate to themselves a privileged right to model the economies of their subjects ", anthropologists should seek to understand and interpret local models ( 1986: 38 ).

Rather than labeling themselves extremist, those labeled as such might describe themselves as, for example, political radicals.

Rather what Kornbluth and Pohl are really doing is warning against the dangers inherent in perfecting `` a science of man and his motives ''.

Rather, such assignments are made, as they must be, on the basis of certain overall rules and standards, representing to some extent a statistical approach to the problem, taking into account for each situation some of the variables ( e.g., power and station separations ) and averaging out others in order to achieve the balance which must be struck between protection against destructive interference and the assignment of a number of stations large enough to afford optimum radio service to the Nation.

Rather, meat and potatoes, sugar, and dairy products are the main sources of carbohydrate, protein, oils, and fats.

Rather, they are impressed with the British Government's success in forcing -- and helping -- the British textile industry to shrink and to change over to other products.

Rather they are genuine clods, proud of their cloddishness and openly antagonistic to the illuminating influences of aesthetics or thought.

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, given the implications of the theory of oral-formulaic composition and oral tradition, the question concerns how the poem is to be understood, and what sorts of interpretations are legitimate.

Rather than being scrapped or converted for other uses, sometimes retired buses are saved for preservation.

Rather than being written as history, the Deuteronomistic history – Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings – was intended to illustrate a theological scheme in which Israel and her leaders are judged by their obedience to the teachings and laws ( the covenant ) set down in the book of Deuteronomy.

Rather, they are acts of hesed that go beyond measure and demonstrate that a person can go beyond the minimum expectations of the law and choose the unexpected.

Rather than being ontologically real, in Christian Science evil and its manifestations are instead terrible lies about God and His creation.

Rather, the independent congregations are a network with each congregation participating at its own discretion in various means of service and fellowship with other congregations ( see Sponsoring church ( Churches of Christ )).

Rather, carinates are unique in having, for example, a globe-shaped, convex head on the humerus and fully fused bones in the lower leg and outer arm.

Rather, the system of assignment of sound values is much more systematic in the Cirth than in the historical runes ( e. g., voiced variants of a voiceless sound are expressed by an additional stroke ).

Rather, the items are grouped together because of a family resemblance.

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, he maintained, our beliefs are more a result of accumulated habits, developed in response to accumulated sense experiences.

Rather the form of the argument is generalized to considering configurations, which are connected subgraphs of G with the degree of each vertex ( in G ) specified.

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 to be understood as eight significant dimensions of one's behaviour — mental, spoken, and bodily — that operate in dependence on one another ; taken together, they define a complete path, or way of living.

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 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 uncommon scales such as whole tone scale are also typical for this movement.