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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 reveal
Rather than hurt Arthur, Amy chooses not to reveal what she has learned, though this means that she misses her legacy.
Rather than reveal the pressing shortage of military manpower that had led to the decision to concede Roanoke, Benjamin accepted Congressional censure for the action without protest and resigned.
Rather they reveal an idea of what life should be, seen from a Brahmin perspective.
Rather, they reveal full knowledge of the provisions at issue and a studied conclusion, however wrong, that those provisions are invalid and unenforceable.

Rather and names
Rather than maintaining a bureaucracy based on names and reputation, the Khmer Rouge also used charismatic leadership that is characteristic of Buddhist societies.
Rather, they are either hydrometeors or special cloud formations with their own Latin names that form in association with certain cloud genera, species, and varieties.
Rather, the street names are more likely named for Derr's family members, as those streets are consecutively parallel, and emanate from what was then Derr's home, and the location of the first available lot sold ( which were both situated on, what is now, Mill Street ).
Rather, it emerged gradually from the consolidation of like-minded state-level political organizations of differing names.
Rather than giving names to the various markings they mapped, Beer and Mädler simply designated them with letters ; Meridian Bay ( Sinus Meridiani ) was thus feature " a ".
Rather than having names they are simply called by their address.
Rather than proper names, they always referred to each other as " Gramps " and " Sonny.
Rather than the ancient Semitic names for the letters ( alaph, beth, gimal ), the letters are known as â,, gâ and so on.
Rather Gundry sees the author, who had been copying the list of kings from the Old Testament, turn to that source for the names of Joseph's ancestors.
Rather than cast the film with all Asian actors, which would have then meant no star names to attract American audiences, studios simply eliminated most of the Asian actors from the cast.
Rather they are frequently chosen for metaphoric reasons, for example, bird claws in order to catch wrongdoers, or because their names resemble characteristics of spirits in question.

Rather and game
Rather than being a rigidly pre-defined set of rules like d20 System or GURPS, Fudge offers a customizable toolkit for building the users ' own specialized role-playing game system.
Rather than attending LSU, Soderbergh tried his luck in Hollywood after graduating from high school ; he worked as a game show scorer and cue card holder to make ends meet, and eventually found work as a freelance film editor.
Rather than to emulate the Sega Saturn, the source code was used to port the game to the Xbox 360's hardware.
Rather than risk losing their winnings, as one of them would if the game were continued, these two players may be allowed to split the prize proportional to their in-game currency ( or however they agree ).
Rather than raising the Stanley Cup first, Yzerman passed the Cup to coach Scotty Bowman, who announced his retirement following the game.
Rather than trying to release the game in tandem with the movie, the Stamper brothers made sure to give the team as much time as they needed.
Rather, " Danger " is displayed on the screen, and it will take another subsequent miss to end the game.
Rather than using a simple " use key " to operate these computers, the crosshair acts as a mouse cursor over the screens allowing the player to use a computer in the game world.
Rather than try to tie the game with an extra point, Rattlers coach Danny White elected to go for the win with the two point conversion.
Rather than tie the game with an extra point, they elected to go for the win with a two-point conversion.
Rather than trying to determine if a machine is thinking, Turing suggests we should ask if the machine can win a game, called the " Imitation Game ".
Rather than the grand entrance that was common for game show hosts, Cullen would begin each show either already seated or concealed on set behind a sign or podium so that he would only have to take a few steps.
Rather, the game was initially devised to be a ' cute ' parody of Shinobi, in a similar vein to Kid Dracula was to Castlevania and Parodius was to Gradius.
Rather than a cross from Hurst, Ball was greeted by a number of England fans running onto the pitch who, thinking that the game was already over, had already started celebrating England's victory.
Rather than a game per se, it is merely a karaoke system for the PlayStation 2, with no judgments.
Rather, it is a carny term shortened from " straight shooting " which originally referred to a gun in a carnival target shooting game which did not have its sights fixed ( terminology such as this reflecting the professional wrestling industry's roots in travelling carnivals ).
Rather they were used to drive the game toward the guns.
Rather than a coin toss, the winner of the opening scramble at the beginning of the game also got to choose to go first or second in overtime.
Rather, Maruyama was simply a big fan of this game.
Mandel has hosted the DVD game version of Deal or No Deal, " Fact or Crap Beat Da Bomb " and " Would You Rather " for Imagination Games.
Rather than use pre-made MIDI samples of instruments like most game composers of that time, Kikuta made his own MIDI samples that matched the hardware capabilities of the Super Nintendo.
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 featuring the same instrumentation present in the game, the 46 Okunen Monogatari Symphonic Synth Suite soundtrack was composed of music re-recorded and arranged by Motoaki Takenouchi.
Rather than choosing between the three possible outcomes of the first game, the plot of Invisible War works on the assumption that a combination of all three events actually occurred.

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