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 " to provide " or " to make available ", designers and those in the field of HCI often use afford as meaning " to suggest " or " to invite ".

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 " loose " plots and a lack of continuity editing made most early films rife with such errors.

Rather than largely simple domestic residences in prehistory, Medieval crannogs were increasingly seen as strongholds of the upper class or regional ' political players ' such as Gaelic chieftains like the O ' Boylans and McMahons in County Monaghan and the Kingdom of Airgíalla up until the 17th century.

Rather, evil spirits described in various faiths ' traditions, such as Satan, fallen angels, demons, and jinns, are metaphors for the base character traits a human being may acquire and manifest when he turns away from God and follows his lower nature.

Rather, we say that a real a is definable in the language of arithmetic ( or arithmetical ) if its Dedekind cut can be defined as a predicate in that language ; that is, if there is a first-order formula φ in the language of arithmetic, with two free variables, such that

Rather than have each computer application implement these from scratch, they can rely on the DBMS to supply such calculations.

Rather, the premises of diplomatic missions remain under the jurisdiction of the host state while being afforded special privileges ( such as immunity from most local laws ) by the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.

Rather it contains metaphoric stories or allegories, such as The Shepherd and The Vine, in which each individual element corresponds to a specific group or thing.

Rather than purchasing a special purpose rifle, which many novice hunters would outgrow within a few hunting seasons, a single rifle can be used with special handloaded rounds until such time more powerful rounds are desired and become appropriate.

Rather uncommon scales such as whole tone scale are also typical for this movement.

" Rather, it is necessary to be able to build only a sufficient ( possibly modest ) subset of such structures — as is true, in fact, of any practical manufacturing process used in the world today, and is true even in biology.

Rather, evolution experiences jumps in complexity ( such as the emergence of a self-reflective universe, or noosphere ).

Rather than merely providing an environment for program windows ( such as the Program Manager ), the Workplace Shell provided an environment in which a user could manage programs, files and devices by manipulating objects on the screen.

Rather than an advantage in power, human acts such as walking, sitting or giving birth were possible only because of a defect in human power.

Rather, the supposition that there are such things is the source of many philosophical confusions.

Rather than offering new weapons, the mission pack gave the player new ammo for already existing weapons, such as " lava nails " for the Nailgun, cluster grenades, rockets that split into four in a horizontal line, plasma cells, and a grappling hook to help in moving around the map.

# Rather than banning genetic testing or genetic enhancement, society needs genetic information privacy laws that allow justified forms of genetic testing and data aggregation, but forbid those that are judged to result in genetic discrimination ( such as the U. S. Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act signed into law on May 21, 2008 ).

Rather, the pseudoinverse of x is the unique element y such that xyx

Rather than focus on narrow debates about the true nature of mathematical truth, or even on practices unique to mathematicians such as the proof, a growing movement from the 1960s to the 1990s began to question the idea of seeking foundations or finding any one right answer to why mathematics works.

Rather than having many devices for different uses and ways of interacting, communicating online is more accessible and cheaper by having an Internet function built into one device, such as mobile phones, laptops, iPads, smartphones, and iPhones.

Rather, God planned that there would be an earthquake ( or some such other natural disaster ) at that place and time, so that the city would fall to the Israelites.

Rather than being opposed to technological advances, such a theoretical understanding becomes essential to invention.

Rather, complementarity means that the composition of physical properties for S ( such as position and momentum both having values within certain ranges ), using propositional connectives, does not obey the rules of classical propositional logic ( see also Quantum logic ).