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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 cover
Rather than cover the danger area, the approach is to change the shape of the door so that an accessible gap does not form in the first place.
Rather, it is intended to cover the basic reactions.
Rather than expose the entirety of his fleet to the American battle line, Cervera had signaled his other ships to continue to the southwest while he attempted to cover their escape, directly engaging Brooklyn, his nearest enemy.
Rather than permit the government to appropriate the money from the bank, Laffitte supplied two million from his own pocket to cover the arrears of the imperial troops after the Battle of Waterloo.
Rather shy and retiring, skulking close to the vegetation so that it can retreat to cover if disturbed.
Rather than directly trying to kill enemy soldiers, it makes the enemy soldiers feel unable to safely perform any actions other than seeking cover.
Rather than claiming that it tries to cover depression as a whole, it might be fairer on the text to say that it is a very subjective presentation of depression, giving us an insight into one particular case ( or perhaps providing specifics on several individual cases ).
Rather than attempting to cover the entire city, these maps are centred on a particular locality or bus station, and convey the route information in the schematic style of Harry Beck's influential tube map, capitalising on TfL's iconic style of information design.
# I'd Rather be Your Enemy ( a cover of a song by Lee Hazlewood ) – 1: 41
As a local affiliate, WUSA did not possess the resources to cover the attacks as extensively as the national network, and its decision to institute a " CBS blackout " prevented its audience from viewing much of the national reportage anchored by Dan Rather.
Rather than continuing ad infinitum, the group only recorded one single " Telstar ", a cover of the Joe Meek song.
* Rather than being fired for being an unwed mother, a fellow female worker steals her letter from the Thénardiers claiming another need for money ; the worker presumes that she is a prostitute to cover her debts with the low wages.
Also, The Reynolds Girls and Sonia both got the Stock Aitken Waterman treatment with their top 10 singles " I'd Rather Jack " ( The Reynolds Girls, reached No. 8 in March ) and " You'll Never Stop Me Loving You " ( Sonia, reached No. 1 in July ) and Big Fun kick-started their short-lived pop career with a Stock Aitken Waterman produced cover of " Blame it on the Boogie " which got to No. 5.

Rather and art
" Rather than designing new art objects, Asher typically alters the existing environment, by repositioning or removing artworks, walls, facades, etc.
* Rather, Susan, Archaism, Modernism and the art of Paul Manship, University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas, 1993
Rather than depicting only the familiar herbivores that predominate in Paleolithic cave art, i. e. horses, cattle, mammoths, etc., the walls of the Chauvet Cave feature many predatory animals, e. g., cave lions, panthers, bears, and cave hyenas.
Rather than trying to be a " pure artist " that creates art for art's sake, Kikuta says that his primary goal in composing is to entertain the listeners.
Rather, he says, it may be that even one who knew the truth could not produce conviction without knowing the art of persuasion ; on the other hand, " As the Spartan said, there is no genuine art of speaking without a grasp of the truth, and there never will be ".
Rather than curtailing progress, because of dwindling resources, LaRouche advocates using nuclear technology to make more energy available to humanity, freeing humanity to enjoy music and art.
Rather, they seem to have been selected for their value as genuine folk art and populist ephemera.
Rather than employ computers in composing multi-layered artwork, Mack prefers to apply objects directly onto his art.
“ Gordin successfully challenged Lateiner and Hurwitz in 1891-1892 when he entered the Yiddish theatre with an avowed purpose of reforming Yiddish drama .” Rather than “ pandering to the public's taste for cheap shund ( trash ) plays, he sought to secure goodwill of the East Side ’ s intelligentsia with literatur and increasingly incorporated the concepts of “ true artand “ serious drama ” into their public image .” Professional companies soon developed and flourished, so that between 1890 and 1940, there were over 200 Yiddish theaters or touring Yiddish theater troupes in the United States.
Rather, the name of " Tang Soo Do " was adopted by Hwang Kee, the founder of the Moo Duk Kwan, as a descriptor of the art he promoted.
Rather than be daunted by this setback, Stieglitz became even more convinced that he would succeed in convincing the art world of the rightful place of photography if he could only find the right platform for his message.

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