Rather than write a history, Camden wanted to describe in detail the Great Britain of the present, and to show how the traces of the past could be discerned in the existing landscape.

Rather, this article traces the main thrust of the army's development and its most memorable activities.

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 mooring at riverside communities along the route, traders come out by canoe and small boat alongside the river barges and transfer goods on the move.

Rather ... fanzines were the social glue that created a community out of a worldwide scattering of readers.

Rather than invite such skepticism, Fichte made the radical suggestion that we should throw out the notion of a noumenal world and instead accept the fact that consciousness does not have a grounding in a so-called " real world ".

Rather than continue to struggle to find out exactly what is causing the bug and how to fix it, the programmer may hack the problem by the simple kludge of writing new code which compensates.

Rather than wearing out, it will develop a patina over time.

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 pronouncing REO as a single word as the motor company did, they chose to spell out the name with the individual letters each pronounced.

Rather than declare himself bankrupt, or to accept any kind of financial support from his many supporters and admirers ( including the King himself ), he placed his house and income in a trust belonging to his creditors, and determined to write his way out of debt.

Rather than hypnotising humans ( as Sarah pointed out they usually do ), instead, Kaagh fixed neural control devices to the back of the necks of his human agents.

Rather than engage in a war with Leonidas, Agis takes sanctuary in a temple, but is enticed out, summarily tried and then executed, along with his mother and grandmother.

While trying to interview a Georgia delegate who was being escorted out of the building, CBS News correspondent Dan Rather was grabbed by security guards and was roughed up.

While Rather was reporting from the convention floor, CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite turned his attention towards the area where Rather was reporting from and Rather was grabbed by security guards after he walked towards a delegate who was being hauled out and asked him " what is your name sir?

After the guards let go of Rather, Rather told Cronkite " Walter ... we tried to talk to the man and we got violently pushed out of the way.

Rather than realigning his troops so that the rear guard would be in the front, Wallace chose to countermarch his column ; he argued that his artillery would have been greatly out of position to support the infantry when it would arrive on the field.

Rather, their speed varies so that the line joining the centres of the sun and a planet sweeps out equal areas in equal times.

Rather, curses are written in a book which are then blotted out with water, and the woman is made to drink the water, after which she would suffer the curses if she was unfaithful to her husband.

Rather, Alcidas leads his fleet to Cyllene where the Spartans resolve to strengthen the fleet and send it to Corcyra where a revolution has broken out.

In the early days of World War II, Cohan comes out of retirement to star as President Roosevelt in the Rodgers and Hart musical I'd Rather Be Right.

" Rather than calling on the queen to abdicate, the Dutch people were this time fearful that their beloved Juliana might abdicate out of shame or because of a criminal prosecution conducted in her name against her consort.

Rather than connected to the bolt in the rear it actually protrudes out of the ejection / loading port.

Rather than performing a filesystem call in each path directory, one at a time, until it either finds the file or runs out of possibilities, the C shell consults an internal hash table built by scanning the path directories.

Rather than comparing the data with population averages on a bell-shape curve, which at best has about 65 % sensitivity, the patient is his own control.

Rather than a figure / ground relationship, " Stein in her work with words used the entire text as a field in which every element mattered as much as any other.

Rather than him being one of the boys along with Trapper John, Hawkeye, and Hunnicut, he became more of a father figure to everybody.

Rather than individual characters, these variants would make up the bulk of many action figure lines and often make use of the old figure and accessory molds.

Rather than building the figure with fish and monkey parts, Friswell used papier mache and modelling putty, sealed with wallpaper paste, and with doll's hair glued to the scalp.

Rather, like Charles Causley, he seems to be considered more of an isolated figure, working on his poetry outside of the mainstream of poetic trends.

" Rather than Aquinas, Catholics see Immanuel Kant as the key figure in Modern Relativism.

Rather, it depicts the demise of the Parthian dynasty, where Artabanus's figure has fallen under the feet of new rulers.

" Rather — and here Wofford adds her voice to the critical chorus that associates Archimago's work with the poet's work — the force " is associated with aesthetic power, and especially the power of books, but can be generalized to include the wider cultural shaping of the imagination and desires for which books are a figure throughout the poem.

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

Rather than the proposed eight squadrons, the British Air Ministry formed two Canadian squadrons ( one bomber, one fighter ).

Rather than deliver an update every eight hours, as the 2008 version does, Pulse Updates are delivered five to fifteen minutes.

On April 12, 2007, the Bourbon Dolphin supply boat sank off the coast of Scotland while servicing the Transocean Rather drilling rig, killing eight people.

Rather more than ordinary worry precluded the final arrangements during which time I walked with my hands in my pockets, up and down, or for more exercise from an angle to angle of a room eight feet nine inches and seven sixteenths square.

Rather than return north, Ge refused other honors and remained in the south, living as a recluse on Mount Luofu for the next eight years before returning to his native Jurong around 314.

Rather than reset the entire book, he suggested to the Crosby's that they ask Joyce to write an additional eight lines to fill in the remainder of the page.