Rather than the traditional reptilian look associated with dragons, Smaug's face in the animated version has distinctly mammalian wolf-like features like fur and canine teeth.

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 than using a grip car and single trailer, as many cities did, or combining the grip and trailer into a single car, like San Francisco's California Cars, Chicago used grip cars to pull trains of up to three trailers.

' Pitching a bit down here ... Probably from my own wash ... Straightening up now on track ... Rather close to Peel Island ... Tramping like mad ... er ... Full power ... Tramping like hell here ...

Rather than a flexible kite, they use a rigid structure like an aircraft wing, because of its greater aerodynamic efficiency, easier control, and more predictable dynamics.

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 having only six strings, the 12-string guitar has six courses made up of two strings each, like a mandolin or lute.

Yet just like intelligence, sexuality is a complex human feature that modern science is attempting to explain with genetics ... Rather than determining that this results from purely biological processes, a trait evolves from developmental processes that include both biological and social elements.

" Likewise, in Moonraker, Special Branch Officer Gala Brand thinks that Bond is " certainly good-looking ... Rather like Hoagy Carmichael in a way.

Rather, he blames the Jewish War on what he calls " unrepresentative and over-zealous fanatics " among the Jews, who led the masses away from their traditional aristocratic leaders ( like himself ), with disastrous results.

Rather than delivering big changes to the appearance and end user functionality like the previous releases of, Snow Leopard focuses on " under the hood " changes, increasing the performance, efficiency, and stability of the operating system.

Rather than counteracting the initial effects of the nerve agent on the nervous system like atropine, pralidoxime chloride reactivates the poisoned enzyme ( acetylcholinesterase ) by scavenging the phosphoryl group attached on the functional hydroxyl group of the enzyme.

Rather than belonging ( like Zenaida ) to the American dove clade around Leptotila, the DNA sequence data show Ectopistes to be part of a radiation that includes the " typical " Old World pigeons ( e. g., Domestic Pigeon Columba livia ) and the Eurasian turtledoves ( Streptopelia ) and Patagioenas, as well as the cuckoo-doves and relatives of the Wallacea region and its surroundings.

Rather than being songs in the orthodox sense, the compositions sounded like " live-action stories " without dialogue.

Rather, war came because public opinion was sickened by the bloodshed, and because leaders like McKinley realized that Spain had lost control of Cuba.

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 the miracle is for combating the ignorance it entails, like a political project.

Rather like modern semi-detached housing, these residences had repeated floor plans intended for easy, economical, and repetitive construction.

* Swivenhodge: Rather like tennis on a broom, this involved hitting an inflated pig's bladder back and forth across a hedge.

Rather, the same symbol is used for all coronal places of articulation which aren't palatalized like English palato-alveolar sh, or retroflex.

Rather than expanding like a balloon, the mosquito fills up according the its body's structure, in a remarkably realistic fashion.

Rather than a central square, the original plat of Stanford, like many towns laid out in the 1850s and 1860s, featured two rectangular public areas labeled as " Depot Grounds " which extended along either side of the tracks.

Rather than using an overworld map screen like most console RPGs of its era, the world is entirely seamless, with no differentiation between towns and the outside world.

Rather than using extroversion and introversion ( E / I ) and task / people focus, like other theories, KTS mapped the temperaments to " Sensing " and " Intuition " ( S / N, renamed " concrete " and " abstract ") with a new pair category, " cooperative " and " pragmatic ".

Rather, the perception of color is achieved by a complex process that starts with the differential output of these cells in the retina and it will be finalized in the visual cortex and associative areas of the brain.

Rather than using a key, code or chip to identify the user, they rely on a unique attribute of the user, such as a hand print, finger print, finger vein, palm vein, facial recognition, iris or retina.

Rather, an image is formed directly on the retina of the user's eye.

Rather than being deceived, the eye is puzzled ; ;

Rather, ' GoldenEye ' is the name that the game's protagonist is given after he loses his eye, and it is replaced by a gold-colored cybernetic one.

Rather, he regarded the notion of " effective calculability " as merely a " working hypothesis " that might lead by inductive reasoning to a " natural law " rather than by " a definition or an axiom ".

Rather than establish the romantic plot in impossible events Radcliffe strays away from writing “ merely fables, which no stretch of fancy could realize .”

Rather than merely identifying and adding the costs of a project, one may also identify the next best alternative way to spend the same amount of money.

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, Roman aristocracy was based on competition, and a Roman family could not maintain its position in the ordines merely through hereditary succession or having title to lands.

Rather, it comes from the deterioration of the " Creative Minority ," which eventually ceases to be creative and degenerates into merely a " Dominant Minority " ( who forces the majority to obey without meriting obedience ).

Rather, its existence is merely propagated by an entity known only as SIE ( in this context THEY or THEM, not the polite form of YOU ), which has conspired with authorities to create the illusion of the city ’ s existence.

Rather, it is merely not received by the receiving antenna.

Rather, by noting that all of these Jewish conspiracy stories are " sloshing around the news ," Cockburn seems merely to be pointing out that, hey, anti-Semitic ideas are still out there today — so why the shock that Graham endorsed them 30 years ago?

Rather than abusing the stage as some Puritan writers did, he merely objected to the performance of plays on Sundays.

Rather than merely using the visual examples of works such as those by Pheidias, the iconic sculptor of classical Athens, whose free standing and frieze statuary represent the acme of the classical depiction of the human form in larger-than life bronze or marble, Sicard used literary sources to explain the symbology behind the form.

Rather than merely lecturing, many leaders began to experiment with what Huxley called the non-verbal humanities: the education of the body, the senses, and the emotions.

Rather than merely representing death personified, the Angel of Death is usually described in Islamic sources as subordinate to the will of God " with the most profound reverence.

Rather than being an innovation, this move merely institutionalized a system which had been in existence since 1854.

President Obama's Proclamation stated that " Rather than merely possessing data, we must also learn the skills necessary to acquire, collate, and evaluate information for any situation ...

Rather, it was the one " that Stalin destroyed and Hitler merely finished off.

Rather than a game per se, it is merely a karaoke system for the PlayStation 2, with no judgments.

Rather than showing a swing in votes it merely gave feedback about the number of slaps each politician was receiving each second.

Rather than expressing anger or disappointment, he merely warns his apprentice that " lust leads to desire for possession, and possession leads to murder ", but does tell him that the girl will have to leave.

Rather, it merely required states to implement determinate sentencing in a manner consistent with the Sixth Amendment.

Rather than merely lambasting " vice " and " corruption ," Pope attacks very particular degradations of political discourse and particular degradations of the arts.

Rather than merely counting edges emanating from each vertex or connecting a pair of vertices, label each edge with an indeterminant and let the ( i, j )- th entry of the modified Laplacian matrix be the sum over the indeterminants corresponding to edges between the i-th and j-th vertices when i does not equal j, and the negative sum over all indeterminants corresponding to edges emanating from the i-th vertex when i equals j.

Rather than renumber the TV channel table, it was decided to merely remove Channel 1 from the table.

Rather than merely protest, she enlisted two friends to found the center.