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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 cast
Rather than tell the story of a cast of characters, the mythology of Funkadelic is a socially conscious spiritualism.
Rather, they increase the bulk hardness of the cast iron simply by virtue of their own very high hardness and their substantial volume fraction, such that the bulk hardness can be approximated by a rule of mixtures.
Rather than portraying pet brown rats as thoroughly domesticated, they are often cast as a wild brown rat which a character tames.
Rather than cast a new puppeteer in the roles of Casey and Finnegan a team of new puppeteers were brought in, including Karen Valleau ( Chester the Crow ), Nina Keogh ( Truffles ), Jani Lauzon ( Granny ), Cheryl Wagner, and later, Ruth Danziger ( Annie ), Jim Parker ( Alex ), and Bob Dermer ( Lorenzo the Raccoon ).
Geuzen medal, cast silver, tooled, about 1570, with the slogans Liever Turks dan Paaps | LIVER TVRCX DAN PAVS (" Rather Turkish than Papist ") and EN DESPIT DE LA MES (" In spite of the Mass ").
Rather, the Court noted, the facts clearly supported a claim of an intentional injury by the defendant and it was evident that the claim had been cast as " negligence " solely to obtain insurance coverage.
Rather than follow Hamilton's storyline, the filmmakers took elements of the plot, combined it with elements of the first Helm book, Death of a Citizen, and cast the story in a comedic vein, spoofing the James Bond film franchise.
Rather than Nyro alone, the album's strength lies in the performance of the whole cast, including legendary producers Gamble and Huff and a stunning band of musicians.
Rather than being cast by pouring glass into a mold an entire turntable containing the peripheral mold and the back pattern ( a honeycomb pattern to lighten the finished product ) is contained within a furnace and charged with the glass material used.
" GameSpot stated that " While the character variety might initially seem like a good idea, most of them aren't too interesting ," GameTrailers also commented that " even if you like the characters, the convoluted manimal melodrama is poor quality ," while Eurogamer mentioned that " Rather than fleshing the game out, the supporting cast often just annoys.

Rather and film
Rather, according to Busey's publicist, Michael Conley, Busey stars as Zacharia in the indy film from Elusive Entertainment.
Rather than attending LSU, Soderbergh tried his luck in Hollywood after graduating from high school ; he worked as a game show scorer and cue card holder to make ends meet, and eventually found work as a freelance film editor.
" Rather than using cardboard to block certain areas of the film exposure, Dawn simply painted certain areas black to prevent any light from exposing the film.
Other work has included: Lovejoy as widow Victoria Cavero, a film about a journey made by her grandparents in Bhutan-In the Kingdom of the Thunder Dragon ( 1996 )-and A Rather English Marriage ( nominated for a BAFTA for Best Actress 1999 ) and Dr Willoughby ( 1999 ).
He worked throughout Germany and directed his first film in 1931, the comedy short Dann schon lieber Lebertran ( literally In This Case, Rather Cod-Liver Oil ).
The film was never shown on television to the general public, and Rather reported the fatal headshot as forcing Kennedy's head to be thrown violently forward, when it was thrown backwards.
* Both " Lucky Man " and " Rather Be " are featured in the film Marley & Me.
Rather than the subject being one-sided or biased towards one view-point, there is a strong balance of opinions in the film, with some interviewees who are happy with their living situation, some who are not, and some who have a neutral opinion.
Before settling on the impossibility of true psychogeography, Debord made another film, On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time ( 1959 ), the title of which suggests its own subject matter.
Rather than focusing on specific political events, the film gives voice to these children, who, although living only 20 minutes apart, live in completely separate worlds.
Karina's first film appearance, although uncredited, dates from 1959, when a soap advertisement in which she appeared as a model was included near the end of Guy Debord's On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time.
Rather than attempting a straight adaptation, Cronenberg took a few elements from the book and combined them with elements of Burroughs ' life, creating a hybrid film about the writing of the book rather than the book itself.
Rather than making a film at that time, Bright went on to found a Christian ministry to reach college students called Campus Crusade for Christ in 1951.
Rather than making a film at that time, Bright went on to found a Christian ministry to reach college students called Campus Crusade for Christ in 1951.
Rather than following the tradition of using animation cels, the entire film was inked, colored, and then animated with computers.
Rather than being paid a straight license, Production I. G will receive a percentage of all revenues generated by the film.
Rather than red-carpet events, the festival's design is to encourage film makers to mingle with attendees.
Rather than re-tell the 1982 Blade Runner film, the developers created a different story set in the same universe, serving as a side story.
Rather than being a mentor, he serves as the secondary antagonist who twice attempts to trap Mowgli in his coils in order to devour him throughout the film.
Rather than focusing on Brandon's early life and background, the screenplay was subsequently modified closer to Peirce's vision, which focused the majority of the film on the relationship between Brandon and girlfriend Lana Tisdel and the events that led to Brandon's murder.
Rather than ' turning the atmosphere of the film to sound ', the function of the music would be to complete the film with its own narrative style.
Rather than featuring one continuous narrative, the film is a collection of short films about Jackson, several of which are long-form music videos from Jackson's Bad album.
Rather than project directly from the film negative to the print paper, a digital image may first be captured from the negative.

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