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 storing random priorities on each node, the randomized binary search tree stores at each node a small integer, the number of its descendants ( counting itself as one ); these numbers may be maintained during tree rotation operations at only a constant additional amount of time per rotation.

Rather, the counting is done in the external electronics.

Rather than merely counting edges emanating from each vertex or connecting a pair of vertices, label each edge with an indeterminant and let the ( i, j )- th entry of the modified Laplacian matrix be the sum over the indeterminants corresponding to edges between the i-th and j-th vertices when i does not equal j, and the negative sum over all indeterminants corresponding to edges emanating from the i-th vertex when i equals j.

* Rather than counting the tricks won, most players keep track of the tricks taken by the opposing team ( e. g., it takes four books to set a four, three books to set a five, two books to set a six, and so forth ).

Rather the monthly total consumption was divided and charged on the basis of number of rooms and persons in the family.

Rather, it is derived from the more basic standard of rightness, consequentialism: what is right is what has the best consequences ( usually measured by the total or average welfare caused ).

Rather than allowing only one wavelength at a time to pass through to the detector, this technique lets through a beam containing many different wavelengths of light at once, and measures the total beam intensity.

Rather, the person experiencing ecstasy notices a dramatic spiritual awareness heightening, with total will concentration on the elevation.

Rather, lenticular galaxies might result from galaxy merger, which increase the total stellar mass and give the newly-merged galaxy its disk-like, arm-less appearance.

Rather than coupling the environment's and the agent's dynamical systems to each other, an “ open dynamical system ” defines a “ total system ”, an “ agent system ”, and a mechanism to relate these two systems.

Rather, the total complexity of m cells is at most Θ ( m < sup > 2 / 3 </ sup > n < sup > 2 / 3 </ sup > + n ), almost the same bound as occurs in the Szemerédi – Trotter theorem on point-line incidences in the plane.

Rather, a total order is contained, in some implicit sense, in each region of space and time.

Rather than flying in to each city, the musicians traveled by chartered Canadian National Railways train, in a total of 14 cars ( two engines, one diner, five sleepers, two lounge cars, two flat cars, one baggage car, and one staff car ).

Rather than risk a total shutdown, working time was reduced with the intent of prolonging the life of available fuel stocks.

Rather than a total ban, she said that she would await the outcome of a study of Ontario's energy needs for the next 25 years.

Rather than focusing on the external more energetic and lively side of the feast, it is a feast which is much more muted and the parish's only band club guarantees a total absence of rivalry.

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 than minimize the number of insulin injections per day ( a technique which demands a rigid schedule for food and activities ), the intensive approach favors flexible meal times with variable carbohydrate as well as flexible physical activities.

Rather than issuing a single letter or number to summarize an entire term's achievements, an OBE system may require that the teacher track and report dozens of separate outcomes.

Rather than forcing programmers to adopt a particular style of programming, it permits several styles: object-oriented programming and structured programming are fully supported, and there are a number of language features which support functional programming and aspect-oriented programming ( including by metaprogramming and by magic methods ).

Rather, they have contracted with an advertising agency, which in turn contracts with an online subcontractor who gets paid by the number of " impressions " or appearances of the advertisement.

Rather than creating a single network with local stations owned and operated by a single company ( as is the case with the BBC ), each local area had a separate television station independently owned and operated, although most of these stations shared a number of programmes.

Rather than having a single production arm, there are a number of public broadcasting organizations that create programming for each of the three stations, each working relatively independently.

Rather than a strong continuum with absorption lines superimposed, the Cat's Eye Nebula and other similar objects showed only a small number of emission lines.

Rather than trading at centralised ports with a few large treasure fleets, they began using a larger number of smaller convoys trading at a wide variety of ports.

Rather than suppress anti-slavery petitions, however, the gag rules only served to offend Americans from Northern states, and dramatically increase the number of petitions.

Rather, it is confusing the notions of convergence in R < nowiki ></ nowiki > X < nowiki ></ nowiki > and convergence in R ; indeed, the ring R may not even contain any number e with the appropriate properties.

Rather than giving money to all shareholders immediately in the form of a dividend payment, a share repurchase reduces the number of shares ( increases the size of each share ) in future income and distributions.

Rather than lose four available north – south numbers ( 93, 95, 97, and 99 ) or assign the primary west coast highway a " lesser " number, the AASHTO made an exception to its two-digit rule.

Rather, they were made up of a number of small, locally autonomous bands or villages under the authority of one or more chiefs.

" Rather Be ", the second single from the album, was released in November 2008 but did not become as successful as " Love Is Noise " was, peaking at number 56 on the UK Singles Chart.

Rather than the mass of clerks on the staff, a sufficient number of godly, able, honest and experienced clerks, which be working attorneys and clerks and not overseeing officers " would be appointed, and the Bar would elect two supervising Chief Clerks to advise on points of practice.

Rather than using a single tone row for an entire piece, as Anton Webern did, or using a number of related rows in one work, as Alban Berg or Arnold Schoenberg sometimes did, Barraqué starts by using one row, and then subtly alters it to get a second.

Rather than telling a story by starting at A and going through B to C, The Mask of Orpheus explores the Orpheus myth in a number of directions at once, examining the various contradictions which are in the various versions of the myth.

Rather than giving up, the Wrights constructed their own wind tunnel and created a number of sophisticated devices to measure lift and drag on the 200 wing designs they tested.

Though, the top two parties earned Rather than increase the number of " list seats " or allow additional " overhang " seats, Albania recently decided to change to a pure-list system.

Rather than selecting a specific number of pre-flashes to ignore, some slave units have a learning mode in which firing one flash teaches them on which flash to synchronise.

Rather, the increase and decline seem to be reactions to changing land use, with an increase as the number of agricultural workers declined after World War II and land fell fallow, declining again when land consolidation ( see e. g. Flurbereinigung ) had seriously depleted the number of hedgerows and similar elevated growth formerly common amidst the agricultural landscape.

Rather than a strong continuum with absorption lines superimposed, the Orion Nebula and other similar objects showed only a small number of emission lines.