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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 belonging
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 belonging to the smartest 2 % of the population ( the criteria for membership eligibility for Mensa ), members of Densa must be in the stupidest 98 %.

Rather and like
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 using a grip car and single trailer, as many cities did, or combining the grip and trailer into a single car, like San Francisco's California Cars, Chicago used grip cars to pull trains of up to three trailers.
' Pitching a bit down here ... Probably from my own wash ... Straightening up now on track ... Rather close to Peel Island ... Tramping like mad ... er ... Full power ... Tramping like hell here ...
Rather than a flexible kite, they use a rigid structure like an aircraft wing, because of its greater aerodynamic efficiency, easier control, and more predictable dynamics.
Rather than being a rigidly pre-defined set of rules like d20 System or GURPS, Fudge offers a customizable toolkit for building the users ' own specialized role-playing game system.
Rather than having only six strings, the 12-string guitar has six courses made up of two strings each, like a mandolin or lute.
Yet just like intelligence, sexuality is a complex human feature that modern science is attempting to explain with genetics ... Rather than determining that this results from purely biological processes, a trait evolves from developmental processes that include both biological and social elements.
" Likewise, in Moonraker, Special Branch Officer Gala Brand thinks that Bond is " certainly good-looking ... Rather like Hoagy Carmichael in a way.
Rather, he blames the Jewish War on what he calls " unrepresentative and over-zealous fanatics " among the Jews, who led the masses away from their traditional aristocratic leaders ( like himself ), with disastrous results.
Rather than delivering big changes to the appearance and end user functionality like the previous releases of, Snow Leopard focuses on " under the hood " changes, increasing the performance, efficiency, and stability of the operating system.
Rather than counteracting the initial effects of the nerve agent on the nervous system like atropine, pralidoxime chloride reactivates the poisoned enzyme ( acetylcholinesterase ) by scavenging the phosphoryl group attached on the functional hydroxyl group of the enzyme.
Rather than being songs in the orthodox sense, the compositions sounded like " live-action stories " without dialogue.
Rather, war came because public opinion was sickened by the bloodshed, and because leaders like McKinley realized that Spain had lost control of Cuba.
Rather, Searle simply claims that to posit the existence of something that is like a " thought " in every way except for the fact that no one can ever be aware of it ( can never, indeed, " think " it ) is an incoherent concept.
Rather the miracle is for combating the ignorance it entails, like a political project.
Rather like modern semi-detached housing, these residences had repeated floor plans intended for easy, economical, and repetitive construction.
Rather than the traditional reptilian look associated with dragons, Smaug's face in the animated version has distinctly mammalian wolf-like features like fur and canine teeth.
* Swivenhodge: Rather like tennis on a broom, this involved hitting an inflated pig's bladder back and forth across a hedge.
Rather, the same symbol is used for all coronal places of articulation which aren't palatalized like English palato-alveolar sh, or retroflex.
Rather than expanding like a balloon, the mosquito fills up according the its body's structure, in a remarkably realistic fashion.
Rather than a central square, the original plat of Stanford, like many towns laid out in the 1850s and 1860s, featured two rectangular public areas labeled as " Depot Grounds " which extended along either side of the tracks.
Rather than using an overworld map screen like most console RPGs of its era, the world is entirely seamless, with no differentiation between towns and the outside world.
Rather than using extroversion and introversion ( E / I ) and task / people focus, like other theories, KTS mapped the temperaments to " Sensing " and " Intuition " ( S / N, renamed " concrete " and " abstract ") with a new pair category, " cooperative " and " pragmatic ".

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