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Rather and large
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 standards of national wealth which are rationalized in terms of first-world development, industrialization, capital and assets appreciation, trade surplus or deficit ; the measure of a country's wealth in Mohism is a matter of sufficient provision and a large population.
Rather than trading at centralised ports with a few large treasure fleets, they began using a larger number of smaller convoys trading at a wide variety of ports.
Rather than recognizing territories of the Austrian-Hungarian empire solely within the principles of self-determination, Clemenceau sought to weaken Hungary just as Germany and remove the threat of such a large power within Central Europe.
Rather than a mayoral system, the local government of Morris is run by three Selectmen elected by the town at large.
Rather than stopping and losing precious time, RPO ( railway post office ) cars featured a large hook that would catch the mailbag in its crook on the way past the station.
Rather than the standard ( and relatively large ) Toronto Transit Commission subway cars used by the three other rapid-transit lines, it runs smaller, fully automated, medium-capacity rail transport system using Intermediate Capacity Transit System ( ICTS ) Mark I vehicles built by Urban Transportation Development Corporation ( UTDC ) and powered by linear induction motors.
Rather, he saw the Liberals as champions of " the common man " against large commercial interests and major landowners.
Rather than having a vast central bank of data stored in a large mainframe computer, the SYBASE System provided for a client / server computer architecture.
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, it is implied that he drank a large quantity of alcohol.
Rather than carrying the data on a single radio frequency ( RF ) carrier, OFDM works by splitting the digital data stream into a large number of slower digital streams, each of which digitally modulate a set of closely spaced adjacent carrier frequencies.
Rather than the large house though, Belle Isle plays host to a folly which is used by the Water Witches in the area.
Rather, scientists believe that Haleakalā's " crater " was formed when the headwalls of two large erosional valleys merged at the summit of the volcano.
Rather than demonstrating their virility by always showing a feather at the valve, firemen now tried to avoid noisy blowing off, especially around stations or under the large roof of a major station.
Rather than building extremely large arches, or very tall supporting columns ( difficult using stone ), a series of arched structures are built one atop another, with wider structures at the base.
Rather unusual community features are a nursing home and a large cultural center, both operated for an ethnic Filipino population who are numerous in Oxon Hill and Fort Washington.
Rather than having precomposed characters like ISO-8859-1 it codes basic characters and a large number of combining diacritic marks, making it capable of expressing a large range of characters.
Rather, a consumer would be willing to give relatively large amounts of Pepsi in exchange for relatively small amounts of Coke.
Rather than making all wages entirely equal, the Communist Party USA holds that building socialism would entail " eliminating private wealth from stock speculation, from private ownership of large corporations, from the export of capital and jobs, and from the exploitation of large numbers of workers.
Rather than leave large numbers of troops unarmed while the rifles were shipped off for conversion, they were re-issued Model 1889s.

Rather and differences
Rather than exploiting price differences between identical assets, they will purchase and sell securities, assets and derivatives with similar characteristics, and hedge any significant differences between the two assets.
Rather, differences among compounds usually relate to dosing regimens ( related to the compound's elimination half-life ), route of administration, and tolerability profile.
Rather than create a new gravitational field, however, the device utilizes a doughnut-shaped Laguerre-Gaussian laser beam, which has a high intensity ring of light that surrounds a dark core along the beam axis ; once a particle has been trapped within the beam, the device uses air pressure differences and heat to move the particle from one point to another.
Rather, postmodernist theorists were interested in examining the variety of experience of individuals and groups and emphasized differences over similarities and common experiences.
Rather, the differences or similarities in their actions are more striking when comparing black-figure and red-figure pottery, as opposed to maenads and nymphs.
Rather than having a clear, chronologically ordered narrative, the movie switches between the summer and the winter plotlines, depicting the differences in Mathieu's life at both points, as well as establishing the contrast between one and the other visually.
Rather than deriving a mathematical analytical solution to the problem, experimentation with the model is done by changing the parameters of the system in the computer, and studying the differences in the outcome of the experiments.
Rather, they claim the characteristic differences can be found in tendencies and inclinations rather than finite generalizations.
Rather than the finite difference method, sometimes the Galerkin FEM approximation is used in space ( this is different from the type of FEM often used in structural engineering ) with finite differences still used in time.
Rather, their differences are usually more subtle but deep-rooted, for example vocalizations or details of the color pattern.
Rather than creating an entirely new document for each audience, the technical writer will create a single document, and use variables and other methods to manage the differences.
Rather, salons only provided a form of sociability where politeness and congeniality of aristocrats maintained a fiction of equality that never dissolved differences in status but nonetheless made them bearable.
Rather, soul is “ a perspective rather than a substance, a viewpoint towards things … ( it is ) reflective ; it mediates events and makes differences …”( 1975 ).

Rather and were
Rather than analysing the site and seeing which targets appear popular, archaeoastronomers have instead examined the ethnographic records to see what features of the sky were important to the Mayans and then sought archaeological correlates.
Rather than the more aristocratic themes and music of the Italian opera, the ballad operas were set to the music of popular folk songs and dealt with lower-class characters.
Rather the German concept of wars of movement and concentrated force were seen in wars of Prussia and the German wars of unification.
" Rather, remember that Elsie, Ena and Co. were the first of their kind ever seen on British television.
Rather than largely simple domestic residences in prehistory, Medieval crannogs were increasingly seen as strongholds of the upper class or regional ' political players ' such as Gaelic chieftains like the O ' Boylans and McMahons in County Monaghan and the Kingdom of Airgíalla up until the 17th century.
Rather than being a strict Darwinian, Haeckel believed that racial characteristics were acquired through interactions with the environment and that ontogeny directly followed phylogeny.
Rather than expensive galleys, wind powered ships that were much faster and had more room for cargo became popular for coastal trade.
Rather ... fanzines were the social glue that created a community out of a worldwide scattering of readers.
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 banished, the Fujiwara were mostly retained in their old positions of civil dictator and minister of the center while being bypassed in decision making.
Rather, rights in specific cases were to be decided by the judicial system of courts.
Rather, these teachings were paths to obtain gnosis.
Rather than a referendum of all residents of West Irian as had been agreed under Sukarno, an " Act of Free Choice " was conducted 1969 in which 1, 025 Papuan representatives of local councils were selected by the Indonesians.
Rather different in temperament, Amine Gemayel was widely regarded as lacking the charisma and decisiveness of his brother, and many of the latter's followers were dissatisfied.
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 calling assailants " terrorists ," we can refer to them as bombers, hijackers, gunmen ( if we're sure no women were in the group ), militants, extremists, attackers or some other appropriate noun.
Rather than an advantage in power, human acts such as walking, sitting or giving birth were possible only because of a defect in human power.
Rather, they concluded that azhdarchids were more likely terrestrial stalkers, similar to modern storks, and probably hunted small vertebrates on land or in small streams.
Rather, the provisions of Roman law were fitted into a more coherent system and expressed in the national language.
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 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 than end the series, Marvel hired writer Peter David and illustrator Larry Stroman to recreate X-Factor with new members, all of whom were already allies of the X-Men, and three of whom were involved in the Muir Island Saga.
Rather, they were didactic, meant to teach the reader the virtues of Stoicism.

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