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Rather and than
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 than from a first-hand study of Jewish people, his delineation of Shylock stems from a collection of Italian stories, Il Pecorone, published in 1558, although written almost two centuries earlier.
Rather than sit around waiting for the suitcases to be delivered, they had gone sight-seeing.
Rather than being deceived, the eye is puzzled ; ;
Rather than viewing the abortive recovery in 1959-60 as a reason for believing we have lost prospects for growth '', he said `` it should be viewed as a lesson well learned which will increase the probability of substantial improvement in this recovery ''.
Rather than a definition in terms of the force between two current-carrying wires, it has been proposed to define the ampere in terms of the rate of flow of elementary charges.
Rather than accepting the natural order of things — the presence of sickness and death — he believes one must fight against them.
Rather, a system with a negative temperature is hotter than any system with a positive temperature in the sense that if a negative-temperature system and a positive-temperature system come in contact, heat will flow from the negative-to the positive-temperature system.
Rather than face this ordeal, Alexei fled to Vienna and placed himself under the protection of his brother-in-law, the emperor Charles VI, who sent him for safety first to the Tirolean fortress of Ehrenberg ( near Reutte ), and finally to the castle of Sant ' Elmo at Naples.
Rather than proving the existence of God, Kant was attempting to demonstrate that all moral thought requires the assumption that God exists.
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 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 than being scrapped or converted for other uses, sometimes retired buses are saved for preservation.
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 than boldtype, over / under-arrows, underscores etc.
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 than receiving an explicit order, a commander would be told of his superior's intent and the role which his unit was to fill in this concept.
Rather than going to Mexico, Corbett is believed to have settled in a cabin he built in the forests near Hinckley, Minnesota.
Rather than totally removing the clock signal, some CPU designs allow certain portions of the device to be asynchronous, such as using asynchronous ALUs in conjunction with superscalar pipelining to achieve some arithmetic performance gains.
* Year collections: Rather than being satisfied with a single specimen of a type, a great many collectors collect type by year ; for example, one Memorial Lincoln Cent for every year from 1959 ( the year it was first minted ) to present.
Rather than the traditional format established by Dungeons & Dragons, which often involved the characters wandering randomly through caves or tunnels and fighting different types of monsters, Sandy Petersen introduced the concept of the Onion Skin: Interlocking layers of information and nested clues that lead the Player Characters from seemingly minor investigations into a missing person to discovering mind-numbingly awful, global conspiracies to destroy the world.
Rather than using theories as starting points, casuistry begins with an examination of cases.
" Rather than aspiring to compassion and wisdom, people can easily fall prey to the vices of cruelty, madness
Rather than the original 20 cm size, the diameter of this compact disc was set at 11. 5 cm, the diagonal measurement of a compact cassette.

Rather and abusing
Rather than operating through science so as to be rationally and effectively practical, NGOs are now abusing the utilization of science in order to gain their own advantages.

Rather and stage
Rather, they either go through their blocking holding scripts and reading off their lines, or else sit / stand together on a stage and read through the script together.
Rather they perceive an apparently chaotic landscape in which trees are cut and burned randomly and so they characterise shifting cultivation as ephemeral or ‘ pre-agricultural ’, as ‘ primitive ’ and as a stage to be progressed beyond.
Rather, it is the measure of the bandpass characteristics of the stages preceding the IF amplifier, which will consist of RF bandpass filters and usually an RF amplifier stage or two.
Rather than secure peace, the Fort Stanwix treaty helped set the stage for the next round of hostilities.
Rather than collecting coins, the objective of this stage is to survive to the end.
Rather than secure peace, the Fort Stanwix treaty helped set the stage for the next round of hostilities along the Ohio River, which would culminate in Dunmore's War.
Rather than incoming trunks having appearances on the ordinary Line Link Frame for transfer purposes, Centrex III ( or Phase 3 Centrex ) had a separate four stage Transfer Network of six-wire crossbar switches to connect to a Transfer Trunk.
Rather than immediately chase his dreams of stage and screen, Dennehy enlisted in the U. S. Marine Corps in 1959, actively serving until 1963.
As soon as the flukes have reached the metacercarian stage, they alter the periwinkles ' behaviour: Rather than moving to stay near the water line, the infected snails develop a pronounced tendency to move upwards.
Rather than re-create the period sounds, iconoclastic, rebellious musicians were recruited ( as a producer noted, The Beatles ' pre-recording stage act was " the punk of its day ").
Rather than sitting in comfort, the audience had to sit on improvised benches, and so confined was the space available that the benches had to be arranged at an angle to the small stage to accommodate the large audiences who came.
Rather than facing Robotnik himself ( with the exception of the final stage and some involvement in the first boss ), Sonic faces up against a bunch of robotic animals: a giant antlion, a mother ostrich and many of her robotic chicks, a circus sealion, a sumo pig ( some believe it to be a bull ), and a spiky-backed boar.

Rather and some
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, 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, the bishop is head of a titular see, which is usually an ancient city that used to have a bishop, but, for some reason or other, does not have one now.
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 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 than employing method actors, he prefers unknown talent who have had some of the life experience of the characters they portray.
: 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, the invention of the printing press allowed some authors to disseminate superstitions and misconceptions about the fungi that had been perpetuated by the classical authors.
Rather, they claim that it is a shorter structure stretching from Rushock Hill north of the Herefordshire Plain to Llanfynydd, near Mold, Flintshire, some 64 miles ( 103 km ).
Dr. Kellner stated " Rather than cause brain damage, there is evidence that ECT may reverse some of the damaging effects of serious psychiatric illness.
Rather, this covers some of the major types.
Rather, God planned that there would be an earthquake ( or some such other natural disaster ) at that place and time, so that the city would fall to the Israelites.
Rather, morality can be seen as a subset of mores, held to be of central importance in view of their content, and often formalized in some kind of moral code.
Celebrities and supermodels have posed naked for the group's " I'd Rather Go Naked than Wear Fur " campaign — some men, but mostly women — triggering criticism from feminist animal rights advocates ( see below ).
Rather than having some software automatically generate the forms, trained paralegals use the information to prepare the document and then deliver them to the debtor.
Rather, it is usually portrayed as a paradisal location populated by deities, which is occasionally visited by some adventurous mortals.
Rather, we log what has changed and assume the rest has stayed the same, with the result that we miss some details, as demonstrated in various experiments and illusions, some of which Dennett outlines.
Rather, they present him " as a basically supernatural personage only obscurely on Earth as a man at some unspecified period in the past ".
Rather, it means that they came to require that the applicant assert a right of some significant substance as opposed to a claim for relief based on an injury to mere emotional or dignitary interest ( s ).
Rather than monsters, the player faced typical adventuring parties, some of which were pulled from actual user disks sent to Sir-Tech for recovery.
Rather than long-term, big picture appraisals, some methods attempt to identify the amount of positive affect from one activity to the next.

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