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, 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 accepting that the earth was no more than a few thousand years old, he maintained that the Earth must be much older, with a history extending indefinitely into the distant past.

Rather than accepting an invitation to settle at Jones ' Lehi settlement, they moved to the top of the mesa that serves as the city's namesake.

Rather than accepting this offer, however, Essanay reported the offer to Biograph's head office, and they were promptly fired.

Rather than compromise his style, he turned to the academic side of British musical life-teaching at the Royal College of Music, directing the choir at Central Hall, Westminster, and, in 1964, accepting the Directorship of the London College of Music, a post which he held until his death in 1982.

Rather than accepting funding on a per-project or per-group basis, the Media Lab asks sponsors to fund general themes of the Lab ; sponsor companies can then connect with Media Lab research in a way that is more spontaneous, but at the same time companies are guided by structured relationships with specific members of the Lab's faculty and research staff, who assist the sponsor companies in deriving the greatest benefit possible from their sponsorship of the Media Lab.

Rather than accepting these drawbacks, it was easier for airlines to demand the construction of longer runways, operate with smaller loads as conditions dictated, or simply drop the unprofitable destinations.

Rather than looking upon his past and accepting it, Boy Willie finds the constant need to prove himself as equal to the white man.

Rather than pay a fine, Holland left Australia and travelled to New Zealand, accepting an invitation from the Waihi branch of the New Zealand Socialist Party.

Rather than manage the team's front office, the player manages the career of his athlete: selecting movie roles, accepting product endorsement, etc.

Rather than accepting the situation, one emerges from it, abandoning a focalised viewpoint.

Rather, he regarded the notion of " effective calculability " as merely a " working hypothesis " that might lead by inductive reasoning to a " natural law " rather than by " a definition or an axiom ".

Rather, it is a fairly natural definitional strategy.

Rather, it asserts that one must place their will in harmony with the natural universe.

Rather, the unit of selection is the phenotype, not the genotype, because it is phenotypes which interact with the environment at the natural selection interface.

Rather, we have to discover the laws of the natural order that will allow individuals to live in society without losing significant freedoms.

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 than classify segments using the categories given in the International Phonetic Alphabet, the autosegmental formalism makes use of distinctive features, which provide greater granularity and make identification of natural classes easier.

Rather, God is said to be the sum of all natural processes that allow man to become self-fulfilled.

Rather, the being is brought here -- as is the case with all the other realms in the Buddhist cosmology -- by natural law: the law of karma, and they remain until the negative karma that brought them there has been used up.

Rather, it means that even the good which a person may intend is faulty in its premise, false in its motive, and weak in its implementation ; and there is no mere refinement of natural capacities that can correct this condition.

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, the evolution of reproductive isolation, leading to speciation, is generally thought to be an incidental by-product of genetic divergence, particularly adaptive changes that evolve through natural selection in response to different environmental conditions in separate geographic areas.

Rather than being at odds with traditional cognitive science approaches, dynamical systems are a natural extension of these methods and should be studies in parallel rather than in competition.

Rather it should be powered through the drop, using force to assist the natural weight of the maul.

Rather than arguing that women deserved the vote because their feminine morality would then properly influence legislation ( as the WCTU did ), she argued that they deserved suffrage as a ' natural right '.

Rather than forming a natural evolutionary group of closest relatives, the laughingthrushes are spread about the entire babbler family.

Rather, it is how one acts in relation to the natural processes already extant.

Rather, the dialectic was natural to the state, as-it-is.

Rather than detract from gameplay through overstimulation, the " natural " qualities of movement provide for a more immersive experience, and extended replayability.

Rather than representing an alien and corrupting force that destroys its practitioners, or a complex, secretive body of folklore that isolates magicians from normal society via long study and seclusion, magic typically takes the form of innate abilities that are natural and simple to use, sometimes described as psychic talents like empathy or precognition, sometimes oriented towards affinity for or control of a particular natural element ( such as the four classical Greek elements, fire, air, earth and water ).

Rather, the rate of evolutionary change varies, sometimes considerably, depending on the circumstances and the strength with which natural selection acts upon a founding population.

Rather than being a crisis to be resolved, the conflict between the natural and the moral forms the basis of human dignity.

Rather than being genuine megaliths, they may be a recent collection of natural stones brought to the site by eighteenth century farmers clearing the surrounding land.