Rather than following the narrow proposition that schizoid individuals are either sexual or asexual, Akhtar suggests that these forces may both be present in an individual despite their rather contradictory aims.

Rather gynocritics aims to understand the specificity of women ’ s writing not as a product of sexism but as a fundamental aspect of female reality.

Rather than training students for contests or providing courses for credit, Mathcamp, as it is usually known, aims to introduce them to the various branches of advanced mathematics (" cool math ") they are otherwise unlikely to discover until well into their college years, if ever.

Rather than concentrating on one specific event, historical ecology aims to study and understand this interaction across both time and space in order to gain a full understanding of its cumulative effects.

Rather than simply determining existing public opinion, a deliberative poll aims to understand what public opinion would be if the public were well-informed and had carefully discussed a particular issue.

Rather, since the early days of the Pathet Lao, communist officials have sought to use the influence and respect afforded to Buddhist clergy to achieve political goals, while discouraging religious practices seen as detrimental to Marxist aims.

Rather than restricting these matters to the classroom, he wanted them proclaimed more widely and wanted temporal and spiritual lords to take note.

Rather than using Dijon clones, Washington vineyards are planted with clones developed at the University of California-Davis that are designed to take longer to ripen in the warmer weather of the state's wine regions.

" Rather, who was wearing a microphone headset, was then heard on national television repeatedly saying " don't push me " and " take your hands off me unless you plan to arrest me " to the guards.

Rather than confiscating Enobarbus's goods, which he did not take with him when he fled to Octavian, Antony orders them to be sent to Enobarbus.

Rather than take a simple technological or evolutionary approach, he realized that the task was to determine in which periods the artifacts had been made.

Rather than take the expected, easy route into Boeotia through the usual defile, the Spartans marched over the hills via Thisbae and took the fortress of Creusis ( along with twelve Theban warships ) before the Thebans were aware of their presence and then proceeded to Leuctra where they were confronted by the Boeotian army.

Rather, the Swiss ran low on ammunition and were overwhelmed by superior numbers when fighting broke out spontaneously after the Royal Family had been escorted from the Palace to take refuge with the National Assembly of France.

Rather than remain at the studio for further tuition Le Mesurier decided to leave and take a position in repertory theatre with the Edinburgh-based Millicent Ward Repertory Players, earning £ 3. 10s a week.

Rather than let her take the stand, he announced his resignation on November 26, 1974.

Rather than face a vote of no confidence, Hata elected to resign in June, allowing SDP leader Tomiichi Murayama to take over the position on 30 June.

Rather, notaries public only have the power to administer oaths, take affidavits, declarations or depositions from witnesses, acknowledge and attest signatures, and certify copies, usually in conjunction with some legal process.

Rather than waiting for the 50th or 49th year, the Deuteronomic code requires that Hebrew slaves be liberated during their 7th year of service, as does the Covenant Code, which some textual scholars regard as pre-dating the Holiness Code ; the Book of Ezekiel, which some textual scholars also regard as earlier than the Holiness Code, refers to a year of liberty (< big > שנת דרור </ big >), during which property is returned to the original owner ( or their heirs ), but the word < big > דרור </ big > is used by Jeremiah to describe the release of slaves during the Sabbatical year, which various scholars take to imply that Ezekiel must have been referring to the sabbatical year.

Rather, " Danger " is displayed on the screen, and it will take another subsequent miss to end the game.

Rather we are free to choose and develop the forms and the paths that our societies will take through a process of conflicts and resolutions.

Rather, he sent a small force south along the Tigris to try to take the capital by surprise.

Rather than see Qin take Shangdang, Han offered the commandery to Zhao.

Rather than fall into one hardline camp or the other, many producers take a middle ground approach that utilizes some modernist technique along with traditional winemaking.

Rather than take cattle to be slaughtered during the trip the Committee decided to experiment with dried meat instead.

Rather than take his seat immediately when the Senate reconvened on November 21, 1922, George allowed Felton to be officially sworn in.

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, we are free to choose and to create the forms and the paths that our societies will take.

Rather than use a high resting metabolism, leatherbacks appear to take advantages of a high activity rate.

Rather than take an independent four months journey to Lhasa, they waited eight months for a Tibetan embassy expected to return from Peking.

Rather than join the others, Ommadon instead offers to take control of the world himself ; whereupon the other wizards decide to seize and destroy Ommadon's crown, the source of his powers.

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 transferred to Motors Liquidation Company as part of the GM bankruptcy in 2009, the brand was retained by GM, in order to investigate its sale.

Rather than belonging ( like Zenaida ) to the American dove clade around Leptotila, the DNA sequence data show Ectopistes to be part of a radiation that includes the " typical " Old World pigeons ( e. g., Domestic Pigeon Columba livia ) and the Eurasian turtledoves ( Streptopelia ) and Patagioenas, as well as the cuckoo-doves and relatives of the Wallacea region and its surroundings.

Rather the Syrian Arab Republic is considered as part of one vast Arab homeland, al-watan al-arabi.

With war still looming on 24 February 2003, Saddam Hussein took part in an interview with CBS News reporter Dan Rather.

Rather, Trinidad was once part of the South American mainland and is situated on its continental shelf, and Tobago is part of a sunken island arc chain related to the Pacific-derived Caribbean Plate.

Rather, he " wanted a chance for the people, farmers, workers, soldiers, the rich and the poor, to be part of the decision-making process.

Rather than having a skilled worker measure every dimension of each part of the product against the plans or the other parts as it is being formed, there were jigs ready at hand to ensure that the part was made to fit this set-up.

Rather, Muslim jurists made the offense part of Sharia ; the penalties for blasphemy can include fines, imprisonment, flogging, amputation, hanging, or beheading.

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 than be ceded to neighboring Santa Fe ( or Los Alamos ) it has remained part of Sandoval.

He eventually found a wrap-up phrase more modest than Cronkite's and more relaxed than his own previous attempt ; for nearly two decades, Rather ended the show with " That's part of our world tonight.

Rather, the beneficiaries are represented by the Attorney General for England and Wales as a parens patriae, who appears on the part of The Crown.

Rather than repeating the first part, Beethoven writes it out in full, making significant changes, while omitting a repeat or any substitution for a repeat for the second part.

Rather than being modelled after the House of Lords, as the Canadian Senate was, the Australian Senate was in part modelled after the United States Senate, by giving equal representation to each state.

Rather, the symbol was developed as part of Sir Charles Barry's plans for the rebuilt Palace after the original burned down on 16 October 1834 ; he conceptualized the new Palace as a " legislative castle ", and the symbol of a castle gate — i. e. a portcullis — fitted well with the scheme.

Rather than a mistake or flaw on Pynchon's part, this narrative structure is constructed to be inexact in a ( perhaps paradoxically ) precise fashion ; it demonstrates the fragility, rather than the secure foundations, of any historical record, and indeed, history itself.

Rather than using the Star Trek metaphor of disassembling and reassembling something, MT works by taking two screens and aligning them to share the same part of another dimension ( called " B-space ").

Rather, a science fiction subplot set in that year does form part of the narrative.

Rather than African American four part harmonies, however, South African bands used five parts.

Rather, services now increasingly represent an integral part of the product and this interconnectedness of goods and services is represented on a goods-services continuum.