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Rather and would
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, the most important factor in the boundary would be the nature of the thing sold and the foreseeable uses that downstream purchasers would make of the thing.
Rather than flowing directly from areas of high pressure to low pressure, as they would on a non-rotating planet, winds and currents tend to flow to the right of this direction north of the equator, and to the left of this direction south of it.
Rather than earning their living on vast farms as the monasteries had done, the new friars would survive by begging, " selling " themselves through persuasive preaching.
Rather than act as guardian to the Duchess and duchy, he decided, he would marry the duchess to his heir and bring Aquitaine under the French Crown, thereby greatly increasing the power and prominence of France and the Capets.
Rather than purchasing a special purpose rifle, which many novice hunters would outgrow within a few hunting seasons, a single rifle can be used with special handloaded rounds until such time more powerful rounds are desired and become appropriate.
Rather than admit congregations from all over the world, the UUA hoped that they would join a world council instead.
His reaction to the suggestion was one of horror in which he wrote, " Rather would I submit to death a hundred times than to that cross on which I had to perish daily a thousand times over.
Rather than trying each case individually, which would unduly burden the judicial system, the cases can be consolidated into a class action.
Rather, the 1799 Resolutions to declared that Kentucky " will bow to the laws of the Union " but would continue " to oppose in a constitutional manner " the Alien and Sedition Acts.
Rather, as we want to reaffirm in conclusion, they provide strong grounds for hope that God will save infants when we have not been able to do for them what we would have wished to do, namely, to baptize them into the faith and life of the Church.
Rather than modify the current practices of consuming material goods in different forms, utility fog would simply replace many physical objects.
Rather than firing every 120 ° of crankshaft rotation, the cylinders would fire alternately at 90 ° and 150 °, resulting in strong harmonic vibrations at certain engine speeds.
Rather, a combination of British and American security personnel would ensure that the wanted men remained imprisoned in Jericho.
Rather, Sousa wanted a concert instrument which would be easier to hold and play, while retaining a full, rich sound.
Rather than realigning his troops so that the rear guard would be in the front, Wallace chose to countermarch his column ; he argued that his artillery would have been greatly out of position to support the infantry when it would arrive on the field.
Rather than continuing forward with Gygax's plan for an entire planet, the setting was never expanded beyond the Flanaess, nor would other authors ' work be linked to unexplored areas of the continent Oerik.
Rather than import manufactured goods from the empire's great urban areas, they began to manufacture many goods locally, often on their own estates, thus beginning the self-sufficient " house economy " that would become commonplace in later centuries, reaching its final form in the Middle Ages ' manorialism.
Rather, God planned that there would be an earthquake ( or some such other natural disaster ) at that place and time, so that the city would fall to the Israelites.
Rather, he argued that Jansen intended his statements in Augustinus in the same sense that Augustine of Hippo had offered his opinions – and since the pope would certainly not have wished to condemn Augustine's opinions, the pope had not condemned Jansen's actual opinions.

Rather and I
Rather than claim that the Not-I is the cause or ground of the Anstoss, Fichte argues that non-I is set up by the I precisely in order to explain to itself the anstoss, that is, in order to become conscious of anstoss.
Rather than seizing upon the anti-Byzantine sentiment, Sergius I did his best to quell the uprising.
Rather than finding a replacement, XTC used a series of session drummers over the years, including Peter Phipps, Prairie Prince of The Tubes, Dave Mattacks of Fairport Convention, Pat Mastelotto of King Crimson and Mr. Mister, Chuck Sabo, and Dave Gregory's brother Ian ( as " E. I. E. I.
Rather than the motto used by the Prince of Wales ( i. e., Ich Dien, German for " I serve "), the Duke of Cornwall's Coat of Arms uses the motto " Houmout " ( meaning " honour " or " high-spirited "), derived from the Black Prince.
" I ’ d Rather Play a Maid Than Be One ".
Rather than being an available option, as in the Model I, the divide hardware using a repeated subtraction algorithm, was built in.
Rather than cancel the broadcast, Lou said, " Wherever he is tonight, I want him to hear me ," and went on with the show.
Rather than the standard ( and relatively large ) Toronto Transit Commission subway cars used by the three other rapid-transit lines, it runs smaller, fully automated, medium-capacity rail transport system using Intermediate Capacity Transit System ( ICTS ) Mark I vehicles built by Urban Transportation Development Corporation ( UTDC ) and powered by linear induction motors.
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 ".
At 2: 22 EST, while CBS ' news coverage was still focused at the Dallas Trade Mart, Rather called executive Mort Dank and said, in regards to Kennedy's condition, " I think he's dead.
When Dan Rather was punched to the floor ( on camera ) by security personnel, Cronkite commented, " I think we've got a bunch of thugs here, Dan.
( Rather than: " Me voy a levantar " or " I am going to wake up.
In Act 1, Scene 3, some of the dialogue between Gloucester and Winchester outside the Tower is absent ( ll. 36 – 43 ), whilst in Act 1, Scene 5, so too is Talbot's complaint about the French wanting to ransom him for a prisoner of less worth: " But with a baser man-of-arms by far ,/ Once in contempt they would have bartered me —/ Which I, disdaining, scorned, and crav'd death / Rather than I would be so vile-esteemed " ( ll. 8 – 11 ).
* Patricia Shaw distances herself from the rest of the Bohm-school of dialogue, stating "... I am not trying to foster a special form or discipline of conversation ... Rather than inculcating a special discipline of dialogue, I am encouraging perceptions of ensemble improvisation as an organizing craft of communicative action " ( Patricia Shaw 2002, p. 164 ).
" The mock-epitaph for Fields reads " Here Lies / W. C. Fields / I Would Rather Be Living in Philadelphia.
* In the Gilmore Girls episode ' I'd Rather Be In Philadelphia, Lorelai's father states while in hospital ; ' Well all in all, I think I'd rather be in Philadelphia '.
" Rather than trying to encourage people to do more voluntary work, I would say look at the people who are doing the work already and give them more support.
Rather, I fall into error because my God-given ability to judge the truth is not infinite.
*" Rather than protecting music as a sublimely meaningless activity that has managed to escape social signification, I insist on treating it as a medium that participates in social formation by influencing the ways we perceive our feelings, our bodies, our desires, our very subjectivities-even if it does so surreptitiously, without most of us knowning how.

Rather and cut
Rather, we say that a real a is definable in the language of arithmetic ( or arithmetical ) if its Dedekind cut can be defined as a predicate in that language ; that is, if there is a first-order formula φ in the language of arithmetic, with two free variables, such that
Rather than attempt another fourth down play near the goal line, the Bills settled for Steve Christie's 21-yard field goal to cut their deficit to 14 – 10 with 3: 24 left in the half.
Rather they perceive an apparently chaotic landscape in which trees are cut and burned randomly and so they characterise shifting cultivation as ephemeral or ‘ pre-agricultural ’, as ‘ primitive ’ and as a stage to be progressed beyond.
Rather, the recommendation is instead to immediately clamp and cut the cord and perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
" and Weir upstaged anchorman Dan Rather before the control room cut to a commercial break.
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.
Three songs were cut from the album and subsequently released as B-sides: " Feeding the Fire ", " I'd Rather Be You ", and " Do the Neurotic ".
Rather than invest time and effort into carefully designing their ski area, the investment group cut a number of trails straight from the top to the bottom of the mountain.
In 2002, Chicago X was remastered and reissued by Rhino Records with an early rendition of Chicago XIVs " I'd Rather Be Rich " by Lamm as well as Kath's " Your Love's An Attitude " — both cut in 1975 — as bonus tracks.
Rather than terminate workers in his Department Store, all staff, including himself, had their wages cut.
* Scalpelling — Rather than expanding a healed fistula, this method involves extending the size of the piercing by using a scalpel to cut the edge of the fistula, expanding its diameter.
Rather, he was a " severely practical performer ( who ) had to cut out the frills as an opening batsman ".
Rather than the use of the film's next-to-final track, " Bridge of Immortality ", from composer Don Davis's official score, the game's cut scenes use Queen's " We Are the Champions ".
Rather than cutting back the hedgerows to give full views, they cut windows at various stages, or stopping points in the walk, where the walker could take in the best view of the river.
Rather than being cut and cauterized, as it is in a vasectomy, the vas deferens is injected with the polymer gel and pushed back into the scrotum.
Rather than wake her, he used a pair of scissors to cut the sleeve off, leaving the cat undisturbed.
Rather than waking Dong up, Emperor Ai cut off his sleeve to allow Dong to continue to sleep without disturbance.

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