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 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 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, their decision made, Edward was asked to accept it.

Rather than accept retirement, he pleads with Toohey for his influence to get the commission for the much-sought-after Cortlandt housing project.

Rather, that people had to face up to an unnecessary brutal conflict based on envy and contempt, and accept that we will never be born equal until The Many can be educated out of a false sense of inferiority and The Few can understand that biological superiority is not a state of existence but rather a state of responsibility.

Rather than accept the inevitable guilty verdict, he committed suicide.

Rather, it is obligatory to accept that from him by unanimous agreement because the way of the Salaf is nothing but the truth.

So if he kills himself along with ten, or a hundred, or two hundred other people, then Islam will not benefit by that, since the people will not accept Islam ... ... Rather it will probably just make the enemy more determined, and this action will provoke malice and bitterness in his heart to such an extent that he may seek to wreak havoc upon the Muslims.

Rather atypically, Oxford was the first university in the UK to accept this innovation.

Rather than accept Calhoun's ultimatum, Ross directly petitioned Congress for the Cherokee cause on April 15, 1824.

Rather than accept British sovereignty, Kaské left British territory by crossing the Mississippi River with other French and Native refugees.

Rather, merit selection may simply move the politics of judicial selection into closer alignment with the ideological preferences of the bar .” Fitzpatrick notes that “… if we are willing to accept the notions that lawyers care about the outcomes of judicial decisions and that these outcomes are correlated with judges ’ ideological preferences, then we might expect merit commissions to select judges who share the ideological preferences of the bar rather than those of the public .”

Rather than dealing with the Chippewa of Minnesota on a nation to nation level, the Unites States told the leaders of the Minnesota Chippewa reservations that the members of each reservation could vote separately on whether to accept allotment, with voting to be by all qualified Chippewa men.

Rather than accept another season with the joint company, Santley decided to establish a new English Opera enterprise at the Gaiety Theatre, working with the theatre's music director and conductor, Meyer Lutz.

Rather than accept an assignment to San Francisco, Hamilton resigned from MHS on November 13, 1896 and accepted the position of Superintendent of the Northern Illinois State Hospital for the Insane in Elgin, Illinois.

Rather than having microfracture surgery on his ankle and additional surgery to repair a broken wrist, Hejduk officially announced his retirement from professional soccer on April 19, 2012, opting to accept a position in the Crew front office.

Rather than accept a high and lofty position, however, Lü Fan insisted upon remaining in a low and humble one where he could more effectively manage troops.

Rather they accept it as a given.

Rather than accept Rudolph, Berengar's partisans now elected Hugh as king ( 925 ).

Rather than accept reassignment to the minors, Hodson announced his retirement from on 16 January 2003.

Rather, the British government " remained firm in its view that the imposition of sanctions would be unconstitutional " because we do not accept that this situation in South Africa constitutes a threat to international peace and security and we do not in any case believe that sanctions would have the effect of persuading the South African Government to change its policies ".

Rather than abide by the terms of this order, the chairman refused to accept the reports, and the committees declined to interview the five judges who were the subject of the report.

Rather than accept the first offers coming in from major labels, the band began to record their next album at Mushroom studios.

Rather than accept change, numerous friars handled the Mausers and Remingtons when the tide of battle was going against the colonial government.