Finally, tiring of so monotonous a form of exercise, they decided to dance instead.

Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;

It looks more like they are going to play at the beach instead of taking lessons on bettering themselves.

Trustees, faculty, and administration can consider the consequences of decisions before they are made, instead of afterwards.

The innocence that they tried to conceal at the beginning is clearly destroyed forever when one of them, asking for a piece of lemon-meringue pie, gets a plate of English muffins instead.

One such disagreement, which will receive attention in this next chapter, concerns the question whether rates for different kinds of service, in order to avoid the attribute of discrimination, must be made directly proportional to marginal costs, or whether they should be based instead on differences in marginal costs.

In any case, though they had been promised immortality if they ate of the tree, they obtained mortality instead.

Angrily Martin wished they had delayed the wedding and gone on a trip -- preferably one that lasted months -- instead of deciding not to postpone the date until he could get away.

They are more cooperative if they can gradually build trust, instead of being asked to give extensive help immediately.

In later Pahlavi papyri, up to half of the remaining graphic distinctions of these twelve letters were lost, and the script could no longer be read as a sequence of letters at all, but instead each word had to be learned as a whole — that is, they had become logograms as in Egyptian Demotic.

" Without a clear Sinhala connection, they suggest one from the Tamil language instead: anai-kondra ( anaik-konda ), meaning " which killed an elephant .” Per National Geographic, the word anaconda comes from the Tamil word anaikolra, which means elephant killer.

If the automorphisms of an object X form a set ( instead of a proper class ), then they form a group under composition of morphisms.

John 3: 16 says that only those that accept Jesus will be given eternal life, so the people that do not accept him cannot burn in hell for eternity because Jesus has not given them eternal life, instead it says they will perish.

Claw-types set quickly in most seabeds and although not an articulated design, they have the reputation of not breaking out with tide or wind changes, instead slowly turning in the bottom to align with the force.

Unsuccessful, they went back to Germantown, though the rent-free home was no longer available and the Alcotts instead had to rent rooms in a boarding-house.

As Alfonso XIII and Ena were returning from the wedding, they narrowly escaped an assassination attempt by Mateu Morral who threw a bomb from a high window ; instead, the bomb explosion killed or injured many bystanders and members of the Royal procession.

When non-native speakers speak Hindi-Urdu, they might pronounce / व / in ' व ् रत ' as, i. e. as wrat instead of the correct vrat.

The expedition had hoped a ship would come by to take them back east, but instead endured a torturous winter of rain and cold, then returned east the way they came.

However, after the victorious Battle of Marathon in 490 BC, they decided to revise the plan and use marble instead.

" In January, Jobs announced that they would instead be supporting IBM's Token Ring, which he expected to come out in a " few months ".

The constellations of the Zodiac of western Asia and Europe were not used ; instead the sky is divided into Three Enclosures ( 三垣 sān yuán ), and Twenty-eight Mansions ( 二十八宿 èrshíbā xiù ) in twelve Ci ( 十二次 ).

Mauritania and Madagascar are the only remaining countries that do not use the decimal system ; instead, the Mauritanian ouguiya is divided into 5 khoums, while the Malagasy ariary is divided into 5 iraimbilanja.

* The Pharisees, portrayed as more uniformly legalistic and opposed to Jesus in the synoptic gospels, are instead portrayed as sharply divided ; they debate frequently in the Gospel of John's accounts.

It has a governor ( instead of a mayor ), and is divided into several sub-regions with their own administrative systems.

The left is however divided over how to effectively and equitably reduce carbon emissions-the center-left often advocates a reliance on market measures such as emissions trading or a carbon tax, whilst those further to the left tend to support direct government regulation and intervention either alongside or instead of market mechanisms.

The Technocracy is likewise divided into groups ; unlike the Traditions, however, they share a single paradigm, and instead divide themselves based upon methodologies and areas of expertise.

In the Olympic Games after 1920, instead of requiring all competitors to compete against each other regardless of size, weight classes were introduced and, by the 1932 Olympic Games, weightlifting was divided into five weight divisions.

Walpole was instead succeeded as Prime Minister by Lord Wilmington, though the real power in the new government was divided between Lord Carteret and the Pelham brothers ( Henry and Thomas, Duke of Newcastle ).

Nelson instead divided his smaller force into two columns directed perpendicularly against the larger enemy fleet, with decisive results.

However, if propellant weight is used instead, an impulse divided by a force ( weight ) turns out to be a unit of time, and so specific impulses are measured in seconds.

Due to this and the great ecological differences between the regions in the basin, it is often divided into multiple ecoregions ( instead of treating it as a single ecoregion ).

With the advent of the metric system after the French Revolution it was decided that the quarter circle should be divided into 100 degrees instead of 90 degrees, and the degree into 100 seconds instead of 60 seconds.

The island of Gotland and the Swedish province Närke were also divided into þrithjungar instead of hundreds.

It was his suggestion which led Allen to film the dual therapy scenes in one set divided by a wall instead of the usual split screen method.

In Book III Aristotle divided actions into three categories instead of two:

Details on Penda's reign are scarce, and it is a matter for speculation whether Eowa was an underking, owing allegiance to Penda, or if instead Eowa and Penda had divided Mercia between them.

Cooperatives often share their earnings with the membership as dividends, which are divided among the members according to their participation in the enterprise, such as patronage, instead of according to the value of their capital shareholdings ( as is done by a joint stock company ).

The New Jersey Department of Transportation never followed through on this proposal, instead proposing a widening project to create a four-lane divided highway for the full length of Route 45 from Woodbury to Salem, of which only a small portion was ever completed by the 1980s, running from the border of Woodbury to the border of Mantua Township.

Because the reservoir divided the town from its old lands in Prescott, however, that portion of land was not returned to the town, but given to New Salem instead.

Doctors of theology, masters and representatives of chapters, monks and clerks of inferior orders constantly outnumbered the prelates in it, and the influence of the superior clergy had less weight because, instead of being separated into " nations ", as at Constance, the fathers divided themselves according to their tastes or aptitudes into four large committees or " deputations " ( deputationes ).

This broad band is often divided into channels or frequency bins using passband techniques to allow frequency-division multiplexing, instead of sending a higher-quality signal.

In other cases, such as modified duration in bond trading, a percentage change in output is divided by a unit ( not percentage ) change in input, yielding a semi-elasticity instead.