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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 inform
Rather than inform on her, Miguel took the blame and chose to return to Spain.
Rather than the experimental HUD-less gameplay seen in the original game, Black & White 2 features HUD notifications that inform players of their creature's state of mind, the effects of their actions on their creature, the status of villages, etc.

Rather and mother
Rather than a conquest of the Picts, instead the idea of Pictish matrilineal succession, mentioned by Bede and apparently the only way to make sense of the list of Kings of the Picts found in the Pictish Chronicle, advanced the idea that Kenneth was a Gael, and a king of Dál Riata, who had inherited the throne of Pictland through a Pictish mother.
Rather than engage in a war with Leonidas, Agis takes sanctuary in a temple, but is enticed out, summarily tried and then executed, along with his mother and grandmother.
Rather than being rescued, the soldiers found her, raped her, her mother and her sisters, and then forced her to watch as they murdered her father and brothers.
Rather than be buried with her husband Ralph ( who was not buried with his first wife, though his monument has effigies of himself and his two wives ) she was entombed next to her mother in the magnificent sanctuary of Lincoln Cathedral.
Rather, he favored his young son Liu Ruyi, whom he considered to be more like him and whose mother, Consort Qi, was his favorite concubine.
Rather than being born from his mother ’ s womb, Issun-boshi was born from the swelling of his mother ’ s thumb.
Rather, the eggs were produced within the reproductive organs in pairs, and laid two at a time, with the mother positioned in the center of the nest and rotating in a circle as each pair was laid.
Rather than quitting due to his symptoms, his mother encouraged him to keep playing and do what his doctor said to keep the asthma from flairing up.
Rather, they were matrilines-a mother and her offspring up to the fourth generation.
Rather, the eggs were produced within the reproductive organs in pairs, and laid two at a time, with the mother positioned in the center of the nest and rotating in a circle as each pair was laid.
Rather than go to prison, Jimmy climbs to the top of the 31st Street Bridge, and jumps off the bridge, as his mother did.
Rather than facing Robotnik himself ( with the exception of the final stage and some involvement in the first boss ), Sonic faces up against a bunch of robotic animals: a giant antlion, a mother ostrich and many of her robotic chicks, a circus sealion, a sumo pig ( some believe it to be a bull ), and a spiky-backed boar.
* 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.
Rather, Emperor Guangwu, who has by that point created his sons only as dukes, promoted her son Liu Fu ( 劉輔 ) to Prince of Zhongshan and created her the Princess Dowager of Zhongshan — a title that had not previously been and would not be later used for any mother of an imperial prince whose husband was still alive.

Rather and development
Rather than standards of national wealth which are rationalized in terms of first-world development, industrialization, capital and assets appreciation, trade surplus or deficit ; the measure of a country's wealth in Mohism is a matter of sufficient provision and a large population.
Rather, the fetal development of these species requires a more developed endometrium, one which is too thick to reabsorb completely.
Rather it was the culmination of a group of individuals each having expertise in specific disciplines including but not limited to system engineering, operational analysis, cost benefit analysis, message standards, software development, communications, signal processing, vulnerability analysis, error detection and correction, antenna design, multipath analysis, electromagnetic compatibility mechanical engineering, navigation, specification generation and others.
Rather than replacing traditional sources of professional development, online sources and providers have served to augment existing options and can bring a widening access to topics and a broader scope to “ learning communities ”.
Rather, recent studies have looked into development of health related communities and their impact on those already suffering health issues.
Rather, they were written as the development work progressed, and not all planned features made it into the final product.
Rather than focus only on law enforcement and the current antiquities market, the group set its mission as being to ( 1 ) establish a comprehensive online catalog of all cultural artifacts in the museum's collection, ( 2 ) create a virtual Baghdad Museum that is accessible to the general public over the Internet, ( 3 ) build a 3D collaborative workspace within the virtual Baghdad Museum for design and fundraising purposes, and ( 4 ) establish a resource center within the virtual Baghdad Museum for community cultural development.
Rather every person shall reflect, if these characteristics can be useful for his personal development.
Rather than restarting development of the ViRC ' 98 code base, he merged some of ViRC ' 98's features into BIRC and released it as Visual IRC 2.
Rather than being on the cutting edge of technological innovation, product development, and market dynamics ; a defender tries to insulate themselves from changes wherever possible.
Rather, a different line of development started by imitating the AT & T curses, from at least two implementations: pcurses by Pavel Curtis ( started in 1982 ) and PDCurses ( Public Domain curses ) by Mark Hessling to support his editor THE ( started in 1987 ).
Rather, it provided a site for sociopolitical development.
Rather, this article traces the main thrust of the army's development and its most memorable activities.
Rather than creating spheres of influence between the corporations and the independents, it advocated organic development through new licensing opportunities that would permit competition with the corporations on an equal footing, especially on North Atlantic routes, and security of tenure upon which to build a sound economic future.
* Neglect of methods of production: Rather than capital formation, it is productive techniques which determine the success of a country in economic development.
Rather than providing lower-level APIs as-is from C, Unicon implements higher level and easier to use facilities, enabling rapid development of graphic-and network-intensive applications in addition to Icon's core strengths in text and file processing.
Rather than securing a new mortgage each time a portion of the development is sold, the borrower uses the blanket loan to buy them all.
Rather, the development of the productive forces was characterised by social conflicts.
Rather than making a chronological development related to the first story, I decided that redesigning the game from the alien point of view was excellent, and would make the player discover Another World with other eyes.
Rather than provide anything like a blueprint for the finished organism, homeobox genes guide development by regulating other genes.
Rather it is the effect such musical development might have on the client's physical, psychological and socio-economical functioning.
Rather than product development, supply and capital allocation are controlled by officials or diplomats under a centrally-planned economy.
Rather than enriching discourse on the targeted topic, such attitudes have a negative impact on group identity development and individual comfort levels which will, in turn, decrease overall involvement.
Rather than being a direct development of the previous carbureted VFR750F engine, the VFR800 engine was a detuned and longer-stroke power plant based on the fuel-injected RC45 race engine.

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