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, 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, Madison explained that " interposition " involved a collective action of the states, not a refusal by an individual state to enforce federal law, and that the deletion of the words " void, and of no force or effect " was intended to make clear that no individual state could nullify federal law.

Rather, he argued that Jansen intended his statements in Augustinus in the same sense that Augustine of Hippo had offered his opinions – and since the pope would certainly not have wished to condemn Augustine's opinions, the pope had not condemned Jansen's actual opinions.

Rather like modern semi-detached housing, these residences had repeated floor plans intended for easy, economical, and repetitive construction.

Rather it was … intended to serve five primary purposes .”

" Rather, relying on The Federalist No. 82, the Court found that the framers intended for the Supreme Court to have appellate jurisdiction over state court cases involving federal law.

Rather it was intended to play, and does play, an active role in legislation.

Rather, it is intended to cover the basic reactions.

Rather, he intended for viewers to learn certain techniques within the time that the show was allotted.

Rather than rhythmically timing the labor, shanties for heaving were more intended to set an appropriate, manageable pace and to occupy or inspire workers throughout the duration of what could often be long tasks.

Rather, they are intended to be used only as souvenirs, and are often produced in gold or silver with a proof finish.

Rather, it is intended to create additional capacity and to create a benchmark price in order to prevent price gouging by local private utilities.

Rather, he intended to use Phoebe's love for Cole to turn her evil and permanently destroy the Power of Three.

Rather, ‘ the governments never intended that the children should ever return ’.

Rather than simply shunting the rest of the train into one of the sidings and returning for the odd six, a series of ' loose shunting ' operations were embarked upon intended to put empty wagons ( there were 26 in the train ) into one of the sidings and accumulate a shorter train of loaded wagons on the main line ready to put into the other siding.

Rather than a plain, pen-and-ink background, the background is this time a full-color, realistic re-creation of a desk ostensibly intended to be Zhu's ( the computer monitor has a screenshot of Xiao Xiao # 3 ).

Rather than a mass of tall, imposing buildings, two unifying open spaces ( intended for ceremonial use, and under discussion by the Board at least by March 1928 ) would be utilized.

Rather than achieve the intended effect, this honest behavior only frustrates Pip.

Rather, it was intended to be a miniature golf game entitled Special Tee Shot.

Rather than being puns, as knock knock jokes in the usual sense, the jokes are intended to invoke a sense of postmodern thought, for example, " Knock knock ", " Who's there?

Rather than being a limitation of Recovery's program, this is intended to be a novel treatment approach.

Rather, he intended to loot the space station and enslave its population.

Rather, the book is intended to be a humorous introspective for Hawaiians about the language they speak on a day-to-day basis.

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 than " to provide " or " to make available ", designers and those in the field of HCI often use afford as meaning " to suggest " or " to invite ".

" GameSpot stated that " While the character variety might initially seem like a good idea, most of them aren't too interesting ," GameTrailers also commented that " even if you like the characters, the convoluted manimal melodrama is poor quality ," while Eurogamer mentioned that " Rather than fleshing the game out, the supporting cast often just annoys.

Rather than putting their trust in ephemeral sensations they seek form in the stable relationships of pure design, which symbolize an order more real than the disorder of the perceptual world.

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 than cover the danger area, the approach is to change the shape of the door so that an accessible gap does not form in the first place.

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 than negotiating some form of compensation, John treated Hugh " with contempt "; this resulted in a Lusignan uprising that was promptly crushed by John, who also intervened to suppress Raoul in Normandy.

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, that one is following a rule or not is to be decided by looking to see if the actions conform to the expectations in the particular form of life in which one is involved.

Rather a word is only a " signifier ," i. e. the representation of something, and it must be combined in the brain with the " signified ," or the thing itself, in order to form a meaning-imbued " sign.

Rather, as discussed by John Keegan in his History of Warfare, war is a universal phenomenon whose form and scope is defined by the society that wages it.

Rather, most of the Earth takes the form of a rheid, a form of solid that can move or deform under pressure.

Rather than use the noun meaning " Latvian / English / Russian ", the adverb formed form these words is used.

Rather, they are either hydrometeors or special cloud formations with their own Latin names that form in association with certain cloud genera, species, and varieties.

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, they form after years of exposure to the sun.

Rather, these ideals were vigorously pursued in the upper echelons of warrior society and recommended as the proper form of the Japanese man of arms.

Rather than giving money to all shareholders immediately in the form of a dividend payment, a share repurchase reduces the number of shares ( increases the size of each share ) in future income and distributions.

Rather, reincarnation, in Jewish thought, is a personal form of the cosmic Lurianic doctrine of " Tikun " ( Fixing ).

In his book " Life on Mars ", Schiaparelli wrote: " Rather than true channels in a form familiar to us, we must imagine depressions in the soil that are not very deep, extended in a straight direction for thousands of miles, over a width of 100, 200 kilometers and maybe more.

Rather, the atoms form a continuous random network.

Rather, it is isomorphic to a subgroup of Sp ( 2n, C ), and so does preserve a complex symplectic form in a vector space of dimension twice as high.

Rather it would have had to have been so well entrenched in its ancient speech form that it held over from the times of pestilence and Black Death when settlers were reduced to meager numbers.

Rather, synagogues affiliated with the JRU were interested in developing a form of authentic Judaism that was responsive to changes going on in the modern world, without going down the path of classical German Reform.

Rather, the ethanol is mixed with other chemicals to form an undrinkable solution.

* Patricia Shaw distances herself from the rest of the Bohm-school of dialogue, stating "... I am not trying to foster a special form or discipline of conversation ... Rather than inculcating a special discipline of dialogue, I am encouraging perceptions of ensemble improvisation as an organizing craft of communicative action " ( Patricia Shaw 2002, p. 164 ).