Rather than being an innovation, this move merely institutionalized a system which had been in existence since 1854.

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 than strengthen his position, the military expeditions left his clan's coffers and fighting strength depleted, his vassals at odds over responsibility for the failure, and the clans that were loyal to the Toyotomi name weakened.

Rather, it simply means that the civilization prospered in their military, agriculture, trade, and manufacturing.

Rather, the term comes from the use of program by the United States military to refer to proposed training and logistics schedules, which were the problems Dantzig studied at that time.

Rather than making extensive preparations for battlefield nuclear combat in Central Europe, the Soviet General Staff emphasized conventional military operations and believing that they had an advantage there.

Criticism of Rather reached a fever pitch after 60 Minutes II ran his report about President Bush's military record ; numerous critics questioned the authenticity of the documents upon which the report was based.

Rather, the Head of the Military Chamber coordinates royal military operations and ceremonies, and prepares the royal family for any military activities.

Rather than ruling Lingnan as a subject territory or military district, the Mongolians then established Guangxi (" Western Expanse ") as a proper province.

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 than reveal the pressing shortage of military manpower that had led to the decision to concede Roanoke, Benjamin accepted Congressional censure for the action without protest and resigned.

Rather he explicitly calls for the military " liberation " of the Eastern Churches, and appoints Adhemar of Le Puy to lead the Crusade, to set out on the day of the Assumption of Mary, August 15.

In response to Hackworth's investigation of Admiral Boorda, CNN and the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather questioned the accuracy of Hackworth's own military decorations.

Rather it was part of a series of military reforms being pursued under the guidance of Sir Benjamin Thompson, who would later be made Count Rumford and Bavarian war minister.

Rather the United States-by its previous actions during Track II, its existing general posture of opposition to Allende, and the nature of its contacts with the Chilean military-probably gave the impression that it would not look with disfavor on a military coup.

Rather than military action on Iran, he has called for tougher sanctions such as travel bans and further bank lending restrictions.

Rather, nations involved in military conflict ( especially the major-power nations ) sometimes describe the conflict by fighting the war under the auspices of a " police action ".

Rather than being attached to a US division, negotiations between Wilton and senior US military officials ensured that the force would be an independent command under the operational control of US II Field Force, Vietnam ( II FFV ), a corps-level headquarters based in Bien Hoa which reported directly to Westmoreland.

Rather than engaging military targets, GL / AL preferred softer targets, such as German administration offices.

Rather, their independent notions of hand-to-hand combat merged through cross-training between students and formulative efforts by their students and military staff.

Rather, he pursued military and political careers.

So I had to combine a military approach with a political strategy ... Rather than just sitting in the barracks, I decided to go out and spend time with the communities to work on calling the rebels back.

Rather than forgo the unlimited supply that the mines of Iberia and the Riff offered, Hitler summoned General Sanjurjo from Lisbon ( where he was living in banishment ) to Berlin in March 1936, and the plot for a military insurrection against the Republic with the aid of the Fuehrer and Signor Mussolini was hatched.

Rather, the destruction of the enemy army as a cohesive military force able to offer further meaningful resistance, even if temporarily, is the objective.

Rather, a Dictator was a person given sole power ( unlike the normal Roman republican practice, where rule was divided between two equal Consuls ) for a specific limited period, in order to deal with an emergency.

Rather, they were culturally different regions which came to be dominated by different political and religious forces and thus came under the de facto " rule " of different bodies.

Rather than being an exception, then, it has been the rule.

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 proclaim his near kinship with recent kings — grandson of Flann, nephew of Donnchad and Niall Glúndub — Congalach's propagandists preferred to advance his claim to rule as a male-line descendant in the tenth generation of Áed Sláine ( died circa 604 ).

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 than cover art each rule book, supplement, and adventure had a black cover with the title Book X, Supplement Y or Adventure Z each in a distinct color, numbered in the order in which they were produced.

Rather than publicly criticising Mugabe's government, Mbeki chose ' quiet diplomacy ' over ' megaphone diplomacy ' - his term for the West's increasingly forthright condemnation of Mugabe's rule.

Rather than lose four available north – south numbers ( 93, 95, 97, and 99 ) or assign the primary west coast highway a " lesser " number, the AASHTO made an exception to its two-digit rule.

Rather, they increase the bulk hardness of the cast iron simply by virtue of their own very high hardness and their substantial volume fraction, such that the bulk hardness can be approximated by a rule of mixtures.

Rather than practising primogeniture, Slavic rulers practiced staresina, where rule fell upon the eldest person in the extended family ( rather than the son of the King ).

Rather, he believed that it depended on the power of God, and that while waiting for God to establish His kingdom, one should live as if the rule of God were already fully established.

Rather than being responsible for a specific area of policy, as most other committees are, it is in charge of determining under what rule other bills will come to the floor.

Rather than rule by power, there was now rule by the majority ideology.

Rather than submit to harsh imperial questioning and possible execution for treason, Grand Duchess Elise abdicated her Electoral status, but was able to secure the continuance of the city's Freistadt status under her rule.

Rather than submit to Persian rule, the Phocaeans abandoned their city.

Rather, the amount of recency is determined by the ratio of RI to IPI ( the ratio rule ).

Rather, God enforces a rule of law and, in accordance with the just deserts of jivas, gives them freedom to follow their own nature.

Rather symmetry remains a rule with clear exceptions and cannot be a principle of fundamental justice.

Rather than increase scoring, which had been Camp's original intent, the rule was exploited to maintain control of the ball for the entire game, resulting in slow, unexciting contests.

Rather than establish direct rule in all spheres, Gordon granted autonomy over local affairs to Fiji's chiefs, though they were now forbidden to engage in tribal warfare.

Rather quickly he already had problems with evangelist Verkruisen in The Hague, who proclaimed the democratic order that supervision and rule rested with the council of priests and not with the apostolate.

Rather more savvy than her father, she is nevertheless at first out of her depth when trying to rule the kingdom in his absence.