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, it simply argues that a First Cause ( e. g. the Big Bang, God, or an unarticulated First Cause ) must exist.

" Rather, distribution should be based simply on whatever distribution results from non-coerced interactions or transactions ( that is, transactions not based upon force or fraud ).

Rather than modify the current practices of consuming material goods in different forms, utility fog would simply replace many physical objects.

" Rather than follow, the British hung back, continuing to fire at long range ; this prompted one French officer to write that the British " only engaged from far off and simply in order to be able to say that they had fought.

Rather, Searle simply claims that to posit the existence of something that is like a " thought " in every way except for the fact that no one can ever be aware of it ( can never, indeed, " think " it ) is an incoherent concept.

Rather, it simply means that the civilization prospered in their military, agriculture, trade, and manufacturing.

Rather, Foucault simply provides a few valuable maxims regarding the reading of history.

Rather than performing the calculation, one can simply look up the appropriate entry in the triangle.

" Rather than using cardboard to block certain areas of the film exposure, Dawn simply painted certain areas black to prevent any light from exposing the film.

Rather than simply the politics of the issue, historian William Freehling noted, " Most Southerners raged primarily because David Wilmot ’ s holier-than-thou stance was so insulting.

Rather, it simply demands that all other authorities are subordinate to, and are to be corrected by, the written word of God.

Rather than simply requisitioning agricultural surpluses in order to feed the urban population ( the hallmark of War Communism ), the NEP allowed peasants to sell their surplus yields on the open market.

Rather than simply endorsing the products, Earhart actively became involved in the promotions, especially in women's fashions.

Rather than repaint the entire tower, they simply painted over the two vertical lines of the " M " to create a " Y ".

Rather than move the city to the railroad as the citizens of Le Roy did, the citizens simply relocated to other parts of the township and county.

Rather, Cavendish states, she wrote simply to pass time and expects that her work may be read for the same purpose.

Rather, they increase the bulk hardness of the cast iron simply by virtue of their own very high hardness and their substantial volume fraction, such that the bulk hardness can be approximated by a rule of mixtures.

Rather, it seems to be inherent in them and they simply ' are ' the language.

A principle benefit of modeling is the ability to explicitly compare models: Rather than simply returning a value for each component, the modeler can compute confidence intervals on parameters, and also drop or add paths.

Rather than viewing populism in terms of specific social bases, economic programs, issues, or electorates — as discussions of right-wing populism have tended to do — this type of definition is in line with the approaches of scholars such as Ernesto Laclau, Pierre-Andre Taguieff, Yves Meny and Yves Surel, who have all sought to focus on populism per se, rather than treating it simply as an appendage of other ideologies.

Rather than simply glorify the phenomenon as the epitome of human progress, Drucker analyzed it and explained how it challenged the common thinking about how organizations should be run.

Rather than tearing up the title page of the symphony, he simply crumples it up.

Rather than responding to the hostile climate by simply presenting positive representations of African Americans, writers of the Harlem Renaissance attempted to expose the racist oppression in American society.

Rather than simply count all inbound links equally, the PageRank algorithm determines that some links may be more valuable than others, and therefore assigns them more weight than others.