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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 surrender
Rather than surrender, the soldiers took their own lives.
Rather than an outright unconditional surrender, Burgoyne had agreed to a Convention that involved his men surrendering their weapons, and returning to Europe with a pledge not to return to North America.
Rather than contemplate surrender, George tried to rectify the situation by launching an attack on the French positions near the village of Dettingen.
Rather than submit to the humiliation of a probable surrender, Bourbaki had delegated his functions to General Clinchant on 26 January 1871, and tried to commit suicide that night.
Rather than surrender the dove, Śibi offered his own flesh equivalent in weight to the dove, and the hawk agreed.
Rather than surrender to probable execution, however, Bonifacius called in the support of Vandal mercenaries from their grazing grounds in Hispania.
Rather than surrender and violate his personal oath to Adolf Hitler that he would fight to the death, the commander, Field Marshal Walter Model, committed suicide in a forest south of the city of Duisburg.
Rather than surrender to the French, Babemba ordered his guards to kill him, an action still celebrated in Mali today.
Rather than surrender, Gaspar chained the anchor around his waist and leapt from the bow, shouting " Gasparilla dies by his own hand, not the enemy's!

Rather and horse
Rather, it has its own Mongolian style of horse racing in which the horses run for at least a distance of 25 kilometers.
Rather than an oblong track, which most people think of when talking about horse racing, Obihiro's ban ' ei track is a straight 200 m run with two hills.
Rather, the units turned up via a query for " flying red horse ", apparently since the units displayed a small Mobil logo — and the Mobil logo was and is a red Pegasus.
Rather than attacking the camp, the Cheyenne scouts veered to the left toward the horse herd and the 2nd Cavalry, commanded by Captain George L. Tyler, followed them.
Rather than a bumpy horse ride, visitors could now catch the horse tram to the start of the gully, and walk, cycle or ride to the falls.
Rather, a properly longed horse will collect himself, and the shorter side reins will be the correct length for him to keep a contact with the bit.

Rather and off
Rather, they either go through their blocking holding scripts and reading off their lines, or else sit / stand together on a stage and read through the script together.
" 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, who was wearing a microphone headset, was then heard on national television repeatedly saying " don't push me " and " take your hands off me unless you plan to arrest me " to the guards.
Rather than dump the wines, the merchants tried to pass it off as a " new style " of Madeira and were surprised at its popularity among the Americans.
Rather, their positions must be described as probability distributions that taper off gradually as one moves away from the nucleus, without a sharp cutoff.
Rather than " shooting their mouth off ", it may be wise if people say nothing, until the right time and place arrives to make the criticism.
On September 11, 1987, Dan Rather walked off the set of the CBS Evening News when a late running U. S. Open tennis match threatened to delay the start of his news broadcast.
Rather than demonstrating their virility by always showing a feather at the valve, firemen now tried to avoid noisy blowing off, especially around stations or under the large roof of a major station.
Rather, his plan was to let Liang take the brunt of the attack, bypass Liang, and cut off the Wu and Chu supply lines to starve the rebel forces.
Rather, it was the one " that Stalin destroyed and Hitler merely finished off.
Rather than setting out on his own, Issun-boshi ’ s parents send him off to go learn about the world on his own.
Rather than sign off for the early hours of the morning ( as was standard practice until the early 1970s in larger markets and until the mid 1980s in smaller ones ), TV stations now fill the time with syndicated programming, reruns of prime time television shows or the local late news o ' clock news, or 30-minute advertisements, known as infomercials, and in the case of CBS and ABC, overnight network news programs.
Rather than leave large numbers of troops unarmed while the rifles were shipped off for conversion, they were re-issued Model 1889s.
Rather than answering the messenger verbally, Tarquin went into his garden, took a stick, and symbolically swept it across his garden, thus cutting off the heads of the tallest poppies that were growing there.
Rather than being located in New Orleans Square, it is located on Center Street off World Bazaar.
Rather uniquely, the player can use the hand to pick up creatures and objects in the dungeon and carry them around, allowing for tactics such as gathering an assault force and dropping off the creatures en masse once a foothold has been established.
Rather than being put into a museum, these models were slowly sold off by the foundation.
Rather than branching the main supply at one location, they allow new circuits to branch off anywhere along the route of the busway.
Rather than laying off employees, Merrill asked all members of church education to take pay cuts.
Rather than sacrifice his humanity, Rayner abandoned omnipotence, bleeding off the vast power, recharging the Central Power Battery on the Guardians ' home planet and headquarters, Oa, and helping to create a new group of Guardians in the process.
Rather patronisingly I suggested a number and off he went.
Rather than attempting to seal a hose into a barb, they just place a slight pressure on the hose, helping to keep it from sliding off the barb.
On April 12, 2007, the Bourbon Dolphin supply boat sank off the coast of Scotland while servicing the Transocean Rather drilling rig, killing eight people.
Rather than commenting on the loyalty of the knight's beasts, the corbies mention the hawk and the hound have abandoned their master, and are off chasing other game, while his mistress has already taken another lover.

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