<adv.all> Felix became a herpetologist instead alternatively we could buy a used car
on the contrary
<adv.all> rather than disappoint the children, he did two quick tricks before he left he didn't call; rather (or instead), he wrote her a letter used English terms instead of Latin ones
Instead \In*stead"\, adv. [Pref. in- + stead place.] 1. In the place or room; -- usually followed by of.
Let thistles grow of wheat. --Job xxxi. 40.
Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab. --2 Sam. xvii. 25.
2. Equivalent; equal to; -- usually with of. [R.]
This very consideration to a wise man is instead of a thousand arguments, to satisfy him, that in those times no such thing was believed. --Tillotson.
But one problem that hurt their analysis when they compared the 1920s with the 1980s: They equated 1987 with 1928 instead of 1929.
The number reported by the Commerce Department instead sent the dollar up two pfennigs against the mark within five minutes.
Employers see that eager recruiting among groups like women, minorities and the disabled will help, instead of "fighting" the idea, says Fred Alvarez, a Labor Department official.
He is prepared to spend his money in the U.S. instead if the new FDA rules make the drugs available here.
Despite congressional approval of the act, several legislators expressed concern over the precedent of closing a station through government edict instead of through the courts.
Like the House, the Senate committee declined to kill any programs, relying instead on across-the-board spending restraint to reach deficit-reduction targets without making those tough choices in an election year.
Fifteen years after the first oil embargo, the U.S. economy has stopped making gains in energy efficiency, according to experts, who add that the country may be losing ground instead.
Gejdenson and other lawmakers have long urged the NRC to impose strict drug and alcohol standards instead of leaving it up individual utilities.
Sophisticated investors argue that income-seekers often would do better to aim for capital growth instead.
Stores were doing marketing individually instead of on a unified basis."
And if not, have they found anything else to embrace instead?' says one analyst. The market has already come through a period of rapid development.
So instead of being clobbered, IBM inched ahead 1/2 point by week's end to 100 3/8.
In February, IBM said publicly that it would offer its new family of workstations with a piece of system software made by Steve Jobs's Next Inc. instead of Microsoft.
The reports on Sunday said Anna Bonomi Bolchini, financier and member of a noted Milanese family, was told that because of her age she would not be jailed while the probe continues but instead must report once a week to Milan police.
But Bolivian and Peruvian officials said Wednesday that Washington should instead spend its time and money helping their farmers switch from coca to other crops.
The book's central character searches for a survivor of the fire, but finds a reflection of himself instead.
RJR pay-in-kind bonds pay interest in the form of additional bonds instead of cash.
Hollywood never offered the wire-haired star a lucrative leading role in action-adventure pictures; these went instead to rivals Lassie and Rin-Tin-Tin.
My knuckles were pointing downward instead of out, and I was afraid I'd hurt my arm," the inventor testifies.
Equally, if you choose to run a 30-year-old MGB or even a Morris Minor instead of a modern car, you need to know one end of a spanner from the other if you are not to be faced with (a) unreliability and (b) ruinous garage bills.
In recent years, Occidental instead has issued stock and bought companies, frets one speculator.
Volatile price movements this morning in the stock-index futures market tripped a "circuit breaker" for the fourth straight day _ only this time the market was moving higher instead of lower.
Weinberger instead admonished the three.
The accord, signed in Kourou, French Guiana, says the rebels will not be disarmed but instead withdraw to three locations until they are later enlisted in a special police unit, the Dutch reports said.
At his news conference, Savimbi also offered to bow out of peace talks and instead send other rebel leaders.
In those prototypes, instead of headlights, a 3-inch-wide lens runs across the front of the car and projects both high and low beams channeled from a "light engine" under the hood.
He said the company instead shipped it out of the country.
These are power plants with four valves per cylinder instead of the traditional two.
The Persian Gulf crisis has given new life to Brazil's program to run its vehicles on pure sugar-cane alcohol instead of gasoline.
The amendment, sponsored by Rep. Bill McCollum (R., Fla.), instead would direct the Justice Department to develop a system under which gun dealers can discover if potential purchasers of guns are convicted felons.