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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 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 face
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.
Rather than being face up, in this variant the river is dealt face down — as a hole card.
Rather than face the possibility of being forced into unwanted marriages, they ran away together in April 1778.
Rather than face a vote of no confidence, Hata elected to resign in June, allowing SDP leader Tomiichi Murayama to take over the position on 30 June.
Rather, that people had to face up to an unnecessary brutal conflict based on envy and contempt, and accept that we will never be born equal until The Many can be educated out of a false sense of inferiority and The Few can understand that biological superiority is not a state of existence but rather a state of responsibility.
Rather than face impeachment by the House of Representatives and a possible conviction by the Senate, he resigned, effective August 9, 1974.
Rather than face a lawsuit for Darl ’ s criminal barn burning, the Bundrens claim that Darl is insane, and give him to a pair of men who commit him to a Jackson mental institution.
Rather than face being voted out, he resigned on 8 December, and Shipley became New Zealand's first woman prime minister.
Rather than face capture and probable execution at the hands of the newly-proclaimed Shun Dynasty, Chongzhen arranged a feast and gathered all members of the imperial household aside from his sons.
Rather than face almost certain defeat, Boswell moved to Des Moines in the newly created 3rd District — thus making him technically the successor to Greg Ganske, who represented a Des Moines-based district from 1995 to 2003 and ran unsuccessfully for the U. S. Senate in 2002.
The major networks all offer a morning news program ( NBC's The Today Show and ABC's Good Morning America are the standard bearers ), as well as an early-evening newscast anchored by the de facto face of the network's news operations ( Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather for CBS ; NBC's Chet Huntley, David Brinkley and Tom Brokaw ; ABC's Peter Jennings ).
Rather than face capture and likely lobotomization, Batman commits suicide, and Pyotr Roslov is turned into a Superman Robot.
Rather than face the lawsuit in court, the NHL, in an out-of-court settlement in February 1958, agreed to most of the players ' demands, although the pension plan was not exposed until 1989, showing a surplus of $ 25 million.
Rather than face arrest by the NKVD, Tomsky committed suicide by gunshot in his dacha in Bolshevo, near Moscow.
Rather than face another lawsuit, the owners agreed to a league minimum salary of $ 5, 000, $ 50 for each exhibition game played, and medical and hospital coverage.
Rather than having an army helmet over the blank face plate mask, the lower portion of the mask around the jaw line has fangs engraved on the mask.
Rather than face ritual execution, he fled northwards with his tribe.
Rather than suffer such a loss of face, Thanom carried out a putsch against his own government, suspended the constitution and dissolved the Parliament.
Rather than stay in the village and face a brutal crucifixion for the grave crime of parricide, Jiro escapes into the night with the dagger and meets with a buddhist monk called Tenkai who works for the Shogunate as an Oniwaban ( Secret Police ).
Rather than a full common ancestor, it has been suggested that the species may be ancestral to humans, chimpanzees and gorillas but not orangutans, given certain characteristics of the face.
Rather, he offers to give himself up and face trial as long as Mary's role is kept secret.
Rather, its origins are more likely to be found in the story of the image of Jesus associated with the Eastern Church known as the Mandylion, coupled with the desire of the faithful be able to see the face of their Redeemer.
Rather than face the overwhelming numbers of the opposing French forces under Marshal André Masséna, the British commander, Lord Wellington, secretly constructed the Lines of Torres Vedras and withdrew behind them, leaving the French force no options but to lay siege to the lines, or retreat.

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