Rather than risk their estates in more civil war, the great nobles or boyars cooperated with the first Romanovs, enabling them to finish the work of bureaucratic centralization.

Rather, the Trinity of forces that drive the course of real-world war in Clausewitz's view are 1 ) violent emotion, 2 ) the interplay of chance and probability, and 3 ) political calculations driven by reason.

With war still looming on 24 February 2003, Saddam Hussein took part in an interview with CBS News reporter Dan Rather.

Rather, as discussed by John Keegan in his History of Warfare, war is a universal phenomenon whose form and scope is defined by the society that wages it.

Rather than engage in a war with Leonidas, Agis takes sanctuary in a temple, but is enticed out, summarily tried and then executed, along with his mother and grandmother.

Rather than the strong bull, Hatshepsut, having served as a very successful warrior during the early portion of her reign as pharaoh, associated herself with the lioness image of Sekhmet, the major war deity in the Egyptian pantheon.

* Rather than the purpose as well as the method of the raid being Wallis ' sole idea, the dams had already been identified as an important target by the Air Ministry before the war.

Rather, it becomes a struggle for power between two rival clans ; and it is also seen as a precursor of a broader civil war.

Rather, he condemns all those in power who took their countries to war.

Rather, the regime financed its war efforts by borrowing directly from financial institutions, using short-term war bonds as collateral.

Rather it was part of a series of military reforms being pursued under the guidance of Sir Benjamin Thompson, who would later be made Count Rumford and Bavarian war minister.

Rather, most songs dealing with war are melancholy in tone.

Rather than containing a distinct plot, this book reads more like a discourse on war and human nature.

Rather than sympathizing with pacifists ' and radicals ' strategic concerns, he rebutted them, telling The New York Times that massive emigration of draft-age Americans could help end the war, and telling another reporter that going to jail was bad public relations.

Rather, he said the slogan " war on terror " is directed at " radical Islamism, a movement that makes use of culture for political objectives.

Rather, nations involved in military conflict ( especially the major-power nations ) sometimes describe the conflict by fighting the war under the auspices of a " police action ".

Rather than fretting about support at home, let them show themselves dedicated to waging and winning a strange kind of war and describing it as it is, candidly and in detail.

Rather than continue the V8-power war with Ford, Holden adopted a more scientific and viable approach that would prove to be safer, cheaper and just as effective and fast as the GT-HO V8 steam roller.

Rather early in the war, the Confederate government decided not to defend its entire coast, but to concentrate its efforts on a few of its most important ports and harbors.

Rather it is about the impact of war on those left behind, and so has a much more universal and timeless appeal.

Rather, in this text, the divinity is spread among all the victims of the civil war in Sri Lanka, such that, rather than focusing on the process of solving the crime, Ondaatje focuses on the suffering and grief of the victims of an almost universal criminality.

Rather than a conscious decision to wage an aggressive war as Fischer argued, Ritter's claim was that news of Russia's mobilization led the German generals into persuading a reluctant Bethmann Hollweg to activate the Schlieffen Plan.

Rather, major city-states had a council of elders and a council of " young men " ( likely to be comprised by free men bearing arms ) that possessed the final political authority, and had to be consulted on all major issues such as war.

Rather, in modern times, the various autonomous houses have formed themselves loosely into congregations ( for example, Cassinese, English, Solesmes, Subiaco, Camaldolese, Sylvestrines ) that in turn are represented in the Benedictine Confederation that came into existence through Pope Leo XIII's Apostolic Brief " Summum semper " on July 12, 1883.

Rather, he said that it came directly from playing and living close to Negroes, and that he never did it necessarily as show, but more as a way to express his feelings.

Rather, they were culturally different regions which came to be dominated by different political and religious forces and thus came under the de facto " rule " of different bodies.

Rather, it asserts that Jesus came to fulfill the promise of the old covenant, first for those Jews already initiated into the covenant, who then accepted his messiahhood as that covenant's fulfillment.

Rather, the name came about because the Russian word красная ( krasnaya ) can mean either " red " or " beautiful " ( the latter being rather archaic ; cf.

Rather than cross such a formidable physical barrier, most early settlers came southerly up the valley across the Potomac River from Maryland and Pennsylvania.

Rather refused CBS's first offer, but accepted their second offer when it came three months later.

Rather than Christ returning invisibly however, they came to view the event that took place on October 22, 1844 as having been quite different.

Rather, it means that they came to require that the applicant assert a right of some significant substance as opposed to a claim for relief based on an injury to mere emotional or dignitary interest ( s ).

Rather than preparing organized shot lists, Russell preferred to use ideas as they came to him, often asking for longer hours.

Rather than Christ returning invisibly, however, they came to view the event that took place on October 22, 1844, having been quite different.

Rather the album name came from something Duane said in an interview shortly before he was killed.

Rather than launch an appeal, the publishers of the magazine came to an agreement with Donovan over the damages he was awarded.

Rather than passively ingest the poet's vision of contemporary society, the poets of what came to be called variously the generation of 1956 or “ of the 1960s ” produced poetry that engaged the reader in the interpretation if not the production of that vision.

Rather, he believed at the time he had crossed the border while on a patrol near the border, during which the boats were ambushed and later came under friendly fire from South Vietnamese soldiers.

Rather, as literary historians came to praise and value the masculine novel and, most importantly, to dismiss the courtship novel and to exclude novels of eroticism, Haywood's works were rejected for more chaste or more overtly philosophical works.

Rather than receiving land grants from the government, as had the previous immigrants, the New England Planters, the new arrivals came with money and purchased their lands from the government or from Planters who were at the time beginning to leave.

Rather, the focus of the book is to examine whether evolutionary biologists have proven their case using evidence evaluated with an " open mind and impartially ," and whether there is convincing evidence that the variety of life on earth came about through the purely material processes of natural selection.

Rather than assisting the Min government, the Southern Tang came in and absorbed the territory into its own holdings.

Rather than adopting it, the British authorities took the design to the Government-run Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield, and the Enfield factory came up with a revolver that was very similar to the Webley Mk IV. 38, but internally slightly different.

Rather than sitting in comfort, the audience had to sit on improvised benches, and so confined was the space available that the benches had to be arranged at an angle to the small stage to accommodate the large audiences who came.