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Sentence Examples A sapiosexual tends to be more impressed by a person’s humility rather than the various accomplishments they list off. The goal should be to teach politics, rather than to indoctrinate students in a narrow set of political beliefs. The director relies on the power of suggestion rather than explicitly showing the murder. It's a nonrestrictive diet that stresses eating smaller portions rather than not eating certain foods. The government's response to the problem was reactive rather than proactive. He tried to use argumentation to convince his opponents, rather than force. Steve presents as male, but he identifies as a cismasculine genderqueer person rather than as a man. This was simply a result of custom and usage rather than a specific decision. Many German castles after the middle ages were mainly built as royal or ducal palaces rather than as a fortified building. The feeding cavity should remain designated as a prostomial cavity, rather than the adoral, or buccal, cavity. He criticizes his opponents by insinuation rather than directly. The book is based mainly on primary sources rather than secondary sources. I think we should improve existent parks rather than create new ones. The town hopes to restore the old theater rather than have it demolished. A Japanese saw is one that cuts on the pull stroke rather than on the push stroke. Jasperization of chert was concomitant with hard ore formation, but it was incidental rather than necessary for ore localization. After 1689 came an alternative understanding of economics, which saw Britain as a commercial rather than an agrarian society. Since 1963, by convention, the prime minister is always a member of the House of Commons, rather than the House of Lords. In modern times, the vast majority of ministers belong to the Commons rather than the Lords. By custom, the members saunter, with much discussion and joking, rather than formally process. Show More Sentences In 1993, Mulroney resigned, rather than fight an election based on his record after almost nine years in power. They typically had little interest in politics and sought conciliation rather than war or they withheld judgment from both sides. Volumes tended to focus more strongly on secular affairs, particularly science and technology, rather than matters of theology. Most work on the Enlightenment emphasizes the ideals discussed by intellectuals, rather than the actual state of education at the time. After 1802, he was generally referred to as Napoleon rather than Bonaparte. However, on orders of the city's governor Feodor Rostopchin, rather than capitulation, Moscow was burned. This commonly used nickname originally related to his consistent political resolve rather than to any particular incident. Much of this frustration was found to be targeted at Muslims rather than minorities in general. After the defeat of April 1848, there was an increase rather than a decline in Chartist activity. They will have a lot more respect for you if you are honest, rather than not keeping to your deadlines. He campaigned in line with the Liberal Government to install responsible rather than representative government. Churchill and 11 others decided to use the label Constitutionalist rather than Liberal or Unionist. In July 1925, a Commission of Inquiry reported generally favouring the miners position rather than that of the mine owners. Whittle's designs were more basic, with centrifugal compressors rather than the more complicated axial designs. Bevan decided that the way forward was a national system rather than a system operated by local authorities. Between two Commonwealth realms, they represent the head of government rather than the head of state. However, the focus is on people interacting with people and serving the customer rather than transforming physical goods. If monarchs were going to impose their will on their kingdom, they would have to control parliament rather than be subservient to it. This was the first UK general election to use individual rather than household voter registration. Some MEPs choose to make their family home in or near Brussels rather than in their home state. Show More Sentences The powers of the assemblies were limited, and members were appointed, largely by local authorities, rather than being directly elected. The changes were debated by the Third Delegated Legislation Committee in January 2016, rather than in the Commons. English nationalists often see themselves as predominantly English rather than British. For nearly 300 years, from the time of the Norman Conquest until 1362, French was the language of the courts, rather than English. Under the literal rule, the judge should do what the actual legislation states rather than trying to do what the judge thinks that it means. The President and Deputy President are appointed to those roles rather than being the most senior by tenure in office. By the late 6th century, the principal means of religious instruction in the Church had become music and art rather than the book. Changes also took place among laymen, as aristocratic culture focused on great feasts held in halls rather than on literary pursuits. Shipbuilding improved with the use of the rib and plank method rather than the old Roman system of mortise and tenon. In December 1961 the government proposed that there would be 34 boroughs rather than 52, and detailed their boundaries. Census data provides eight nominal rather than 25 real wards, all of varying size and population. The eastern part of the estuary is much affected by silting, and part of it is marked on modern maps as dry land rather than tidal. Now the bore is recognisably the spectacular phenomenon that people expect rather than a swelling flood of water. It is used as a facade on some skyscrapers, but only in thin plates for covering, rather than solid blocks. The grant of the honour on the grounds of being a large industrial town, rather than a diocesan centre, was unprecedented. Such a church is grand because it is a cathedral, rather than it being designated a cathedral because of its grandeur. The cathedral is unusual in Britain in having a separate bell tower a few metres away from the main building, rather than integrated into it. Because it makes predictions about price changes rather than price levels, relative PPP is still a useful concept. This means that shoppers will purchase within a group of accepted brands rather than choosing one specific brand. It produces power as a series of pulses rather than as a steady output, hence the name. Show More Sentences Another source asserted that the bombs were mistakenly dropped into the harbour rather than the dockyard. However, Portsmouth City Council won a concession, and rather than face closure, the dockyard was downgraded to a naval base. His laboratory notebooks reveal that he believed heat to be a form of rotational, rather than translational motion. He recommended modern languages instead of classical languages and modern rather than ancient history. Hawking had wanted the film to be scientific rather than biographical, but he was persuaded otherwise. This allows the application of probability to all sorts of propositions rather than just ones that come with a reference class. The like-minded politicians voted the same way so often they were thought of as one person rather than two. The base units used in the metric system must be realisable, ideally with reference to natural phenomena rather than unique artefacts. The Z3 stored its program on an external tape, but it was electromechanical rather than electronic. Social networking sites try to get users to use their real names, interests, and locations, rather than pseudonyms. Hovercraft are hybrid vessels operated by a pilot as an aircraft rather than a captain as a marine vessel. This is especially true if the windings use aluminum rather than the heavier copper. However, these ideas were founded in philosophical and theological reasoning rather than evidence and experimentation. It is the industrial age development of the deadfall trap, but relying on the force of a wound spring rather than gravity. Under the Welsh devolution settlement, specific policy areas are transferred to the Welsh Government rather than reserved to Westminster. The picture we get of a pragmatic gradualist rather than a fierce logic chopper makes him a more human and understandable character. However, finds from Swanscombe and Botany Pit in Purfleet support Levallois technology being a European rather than African introduction. This painstaking process of checking texts and cultural data rather than dictionaries may seem to be not worth the candle for some long-rangers. The auxilia remained independent cohorts, and legionary troops often operated as groups of cohorts rather than as full legions. Then people had to decide to use this leather for manuscripts rather than for any of the other things leather can be used for. Show More Sentences Academics refer to power differences among groups rather than differences in population size among groups. Advocates of disability rights emphasize difference in physical or psychological functioning, rather than inferiority. This subjective approach allows people, rather than researchers, to define their own social class. Other acronyms were created to describe the person rather than the language to be learned. Then it is less costly for the seller to accept money in exchange, rather than what the buyer produces. By such means, a hypothesis may gain acceptance, although in a probabilistic, rather than certain, sense. In the 2001 census, 7 percent of people in Cornwall identified themselves as Cornish, rather than British or English. In Kermanshah or Kurdistan, we can speak of learning Kurdish by Persian speakers as a second rather than foreign language. The term therefore denotes regional practices among the insular churches and their associates, rather than actual theological differences. During the early 20th century it became increasingly common to bury cremated remains rather than coffins in the abbey. Priests found celebrating Mass were often hanged, drawn and quartered, rather than being burned at the stake. However, small herbivores rather than macrograzers or simulated herbivory are expected to trigger the induction of anti-herbivory defences. Direct replies to someone's contribution are not permitted, with an aim of seeking truth rather than of debating. Unitarians believe that Jesus was inspired by God in his moral teachings and is a savior but a human being rather than a deity. Some take the novel's principal message to be the social need for order and discipline rather than liberty. Henry may have hoped that Becket would continue to put the royal government first, rather than the church. They argued that English witchcraft, like African witchcraft, was endemic rather than epidemic. The third British group to call itself Druidic was English rather than Welsh, and was known as the Ancient Order of Druids. Most Heathens reject the concept of sin and believe that guilt is a destructive rather than useful concept. Remedies involve accepting the child, rather than treatment with drugs or punishment. Show More Sentences In the past, degrees have also been directly issued by authority of the monarch or by a bishop, rather than any educational institution. In Canada, education is the responsibility of the provinces and territories, rather than the federal government. It is considered as an additional academic qualification rather than an academic degree formally. Since 1908, results were published alphabetically within class rather than score order. Thereafter, an increasing number of students lived in colleges rather than in halls and religious houses. When it is associated with a personal name, villa was probably used in the original sense of a country estate rather than a chartered town. Roman roads generally went straight up and down hills, rather than in a serpentine pattern. Romans preferred to engineer solutions to obstacles rather than circumvent them. Milecastles in this area were also built from timber and earth rather than stone, but turrets were always made from stone. According to Sheppard Frere, the garrison reflected the political rather than military purpose of the wall. It is not uncommon on exam days for several students to malinger rather than prepare themselves. Thatch has become much more popular in the UK over the past 30 years, and is now a symbol of wealth rather than poverty. Six years later there was again civil unrest, and Richard spent Christmas in the security of the Tower rather than Windsor as was more usual. King John undertook some building works at Windsor, but primarily to the accommodation rather than the defences. They were more commonly used against the garrison rather than the buildings of a castle. We need a political solution rather than a military solution. The knights themselves lived in auberges, but these were more large houses rather than palaces. Within Robin Hood's band, medieval forms of courtesy rather than modern ideals of equality are generally in evidence. Here it is the perfect knight Galahad, rather than Percival, who assumes the empty seat, now called the Siege Perilous. Tatlock and other scholars to conclude that Geoffrey borrowed the passage from Henry, rather than the other way around. Show More Sentences In 2004, Disneyland in Anaheim, California, pioneered the commercial use of aerial fireworks launched with compressed air rather than gunpowder. Some dahlia shells are cylindrical rather than spherical to allow for larger stars. At some point, for reasons that are unclear, it became customary to burn Guy Fawkes in effigy, rather than the pope. Leading papists, rather than causing trouble as anticipated, reacted to the news by offering their enthusiastic support for the new monarch. Some of the earliest teams used hornpipes rather than the jigs used in the modern era. Because of climate conditions, sausages were traditionally preserved by smoking, rather than drying, like in Mediterranean countries. These sweet sausages are refrigerated rather than fried and usually, however, served for dessert rather than as part of a savory course. They have been studied in modern medical research since the 1960s, where most studies use extracts, rather than whole mushrooms. In 1747, Hannah Glasse's The Art of Cookery gave a recipe for 'pigeon in a hole', calling for pigeon rather than the contemporary sausages. The name may have come from the metal dish in which the curry is cooked, rather than from any specific ingredient or cooking technique. The Swedish style apple pie is predominantly a variety of apple crumble, rather than a traditional pastry pie. For long voyages, hardtack was baked four times, rather than the more common two. A similar situation saw Gervinho play in Van Persie rather than going for goal himself, only for the Dutchman to drift marginally offside. Artisans, such as engravers, became more concerned with aesthetics rather than just perfecting their craft. Many deploy broad blocks of harmoniously arranged colour and are symbolic rather than narratival. Caxton was a technician rather than a writer and he often faced dilemmas concerning language standardisation in the books he printed. It is unclear to what extent Chaucer was responsible for starting a trend rather than simply being part of it. Then too, critics started to focus on Hamlet's delay as a character trait, rather than a plot device. Kehler dismisses his views on Helena as indications of Coleridge's own misogyny, rather than genuine reflections of Helena's morality. Like Hazlitt he felt that the work is best appreciated when read as a text, rather than acted on stage. Show More Sentences In having the new Minotaur rescue rather than threaten the lovers, the classical myth is comically inverted. When should you mask a specific interrupt, rather than disabling all interrupts? Davies' and Gribbin's objections are shared by proponents of digital physics who view information rather than matter to be fundamental. Arthur Eddington's observations made during a 1919 solar eclipse supported General Relativity rather than Newtonian gravitation. Most of the short poems Shelley wrote at San Terenzo were addressed to Jane rather than to Mary. William Godwin regarded his daughter's characters as types rather than portraits from real life. To tailor his works for a Victorian audience, she cast Percy Shelley as a lyrical rather than a political poet. According to my ideas they are an artistic production rather than an authentic representation of unconscious processes. In 1804 he began expanding this autobiographical work, having decided to make it a prologue rather than an appendix. Wilson quotes letters by Dodgson describing difficulty in reading lessons and prayers rather than preaching in his own words. Their rhythms may be syncopated and quite different from work song rhythms, relying on the instruments to keep time rather than the voice. George asked Compton, rather than Walpole, to write his first speech as king for him, but Compton asked Walpole to draft it. When George visited Hanover in the summers of 1729, 1732 and 1735, he left his wife to chair the regency council in Britain rather than his son. George had pushed for greater professionalism in the ranks, and promotion by merit rather than by sale of commissions, but without much success. Elgar was catching the attention of prominent critics, but their reviews were polite rather than enthusiastic. Hereafter, whole works rather than brief passages would be informed by this idea. Henceforth, Wales entered regional sides rather than the club sides that had previously competed. Though a capable rather than a virtuoso player he won the praise of the leading conductor Hans Richter, for whom he played at Covent Garden. She begins by asking him to play anything he knows, but he asks to simply listen rather than learn to play himself. His music producer, West Nikosi, was looking for the commercial success in Phuzekhemisi's music rather than starting a political controversy. Show More Sentences Mason later acknowledged that their record company had instigated the Publius Enigma mystery, rather than the band. This was to allow for these tracks to be aimed at a more commercial scene rather than for the dancefloor. It was not seen in London until 1985 when it was produced by the London Festival Ballet rather than at Covent Garden. This time, Hitchcock makes the victim and villain kindreds, rather than opposites, as in Strangers on a Train. Billington ascribes this failure rate to poor choices by Olivier rather than mere bad luck. To his disappointment Elizabeth Bennet was played by Greer Garson rather than Leigh. The original play was heavily cut to focus on the relationships, rather than the political intrigue. Over the next four years Olivier spent much of his time working as a producer, presenting plays rather than directing or acting in them. Occasionally, a film maker will actually edit his film to fit the flow of music, rather than the other way around, which is the norm. It is heretical, because it touches on dogma and the interpretation of belief, rather than belief itself. Nolan shoots the entirety of his films with one unit, rather than using a second unit for action sequences. The UNESCO geographic zones also give greater emphasis on administrative, rather than geographic associations. This was prompted more by Victorian middle class paternalism rather than by demand from the lower social orders. Foxhound packs in the Cumbrian fells and other upland areas are followed by supporters on foot rather than on horseback. Some hunts, including most harrier and beagle packs, wear green rather than red jackets, and some hunts wear other colours such as mustard. For the 2014 World Cup, the German team used white shorts rather than the traditional black due to FIFA's kit clashing rule for the tournament. However, this was presented in a diagonal fashion rather than the current vertical. The name may have arisen from a need to match the status of Norfolk as a county rather than a city. Meta-knowledge is knowledge about how to acquire and exploit information, rather than basic knowledge about the world. The Trans New Guinea language area is probably the result of repeated metatypy rather than of common genetic origin. Show More Sentences Although the race is remembered as the race lost by Graham Hill, rather than won by Brabham. Red Bull Racing continued to use Michelin tyres, rather than the Bridgestones used by Ferrari. The problem seemed to subside, and the decision was made to keep him on the track rather than pit him. It was designed as an expedient testbed for their new engine, rather than a true prototype vehicle. The PDC sought to attract a younger audience of both sexes for darts and market the game as a night out rather than just as a sporting event. Matches are contested over legs rather than sets, presenting the prospect of some surprising results and upsets. The ancient Romans used similar insignia on their shields, but these identified military units rather than individuals. In the heraldic traditions of England and Scotland, an individual, rather than a family, had a coat of arms. Blake's poem asks four questions rather than asserting the historical truth of Christ's visit. Such nations are sometimes recognised as autonomous areas rather than as fully sovereign, independent states. On the other hand, some consider such a word to be a simple determiner rather than an article. For most senior ministers this is usually the elected House of Commons rather than the House of Lords. Members may call each other directly by name, rather than by constituency or cabinet position, and hand clapping is allowed. Most Manx politicians stand for election as independents rather than as representatives of political parties. Personal income is assessed and taxed on a total worldwide income basis rather than a remittance basis. This means that all income earned throughout the world is assessable for Manx tax rather than only income earned in or brought into the Island. Candidates often stand for election as independents, rather than being selected by political parties. The damage from hitting the iceberg head on was at the bow rather than amidship. These defensive mines anticipated modern antivehicular mines, albeit by collapsing rather than exploding. In other words, they are used to name, rather than to describe. They are apposite nouns and not adjectives. Show More Sentences The field of aptamer research is also more targeted, with many more catalytic aptamers being examined rather than for binding alone. The ambassador-at-large was designated to the Middle East as a region, rather than to a specific country. Large utility companies use autopayment, where callers can make payments using the telephone keypad rather than speaking to an operator. Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants. The conductor preferred to situate the bass in the middle rear, rather than to one side of the orchestra. The pitcher beaned the batter, rather than letting him hit another home run. In most cases, punishment was meted out to compensate the woman's father for his loss of valuable property rather than to console the victim. Early first-person shooter games used billboarding for enemies rather than full character models. It made perfect sense to Michael that the Berlin police would choose to infiltrate the Black Bloc, rather than the establishment leftist parties. The blackness of outerspace comes from the lack of anything to reflect light rather than the absence of black. It is, dare I say it, too preoccupied with being respectably booky rather than wildly bloggy. On such a densely-populated island, most infrastructure projects are on brownfield sites, rather than starting in pastures new. She is a jittery bundle of nerves rather than the tough stoic she ought to be. So rather than bushbash my way down to the road end, I decided to cut uphill to meet the round-the-mountain track and take the easy way out. It was he who maneuvered a captain of industry, steelmaker Francis Mer, rather than a government mandarin into the finance minister's job. In dealing with certainty choices, standard economic theory treats utility as an ordinal rather than a cardinal variable. This is a spicy variation of Kung Pao Chicken using cashews rather than the more common peanuts. Second, the antibiotic adopted in our RCT was cefathiamidine rather than cefazolin used in other studies. Adler's prose seeks to catch the whispers and chirpings of insanity rather than the lamentations of suffering. The robots, designed by Kenjiro Okazaki, are cardboard tubes rather than the usual metal clankers. Show More Sentences It is footballers though, rather than commentators, presenters or pundits, who when interviewed have provided some of the best Colemanballs. What employers find is that if workers are allowed to schedule in that time, many will do those errands on personal rather than company time. In particular, its meaning will normally also be retrieved from storage rather than computed compositionally, from the constituents. Con committees attempt to get public money rather than be funded out of the congoer's pocket. Consider the first, allegedly contrastive fact, that there were some bank robbings by Sutton rather than no robbings at all by Sutton. These corfs were also hauled along the tracks using pit ponies rather than the women and boys who had previously been employed for the task. It would not occur to a woman who cuddled rabbits and cats that she was to be the cuddlee rather than the cuddler. Laudably, he ends on some optimistic notes, and some prescriptions, rather than wallowing in declinism. Diaphragmatic breathing is controlled deep breathing using the lower abdomen rather than expanding the upper chest area. The television news was depressing, so rather than start crying I turned it off. Thus, rather than paying for the perceptions of higher risk, the challenge is to derisk the situation. The captain went forward interfering rather than assisting. I was alternately despairful and desperate. The masters looked unusually stern, but it was the sternness of thought rather than of discipline. The same holds for space that is also homogenically and continually rather than heterogenically and discontinually organized and structured. The douzaines of Guernsey, since the year 1844, are represented in the states by deputies, who are delegates rather than representatives. Five o'clock by the Dutch reckoning would be five o'clock in the Dutch rather than, e.g., a Canadian time zone. Curiously, Aliph calls this earware rather than a headset, hence the comparison to sunglasses. The Edisonian approach to innovation is characterized by trial-and-error discovery rather than a systematic theoretical approach. John was eliminated as a contestant when it was found he had gained, rather than lost, weight. But rather than the end-to-end action of the first half, much of the entertainment took place in the Sunderland third. Show More Sentences We speak of the estimator's target as an estimand rather than just as a parameter. The advantage in being able to do this lies in the creation and maintenance of an endonorm rather than blindly insisting on an exonorm. There are feeble-mindednesses rather than a single condition of feeble-mindedness from this point of view. The Chinese gentry, so far as they still existed, preferred to work with him rather than with the feudalist Huns. And I am inspired afresh to pursue the stunning beauty of Christ rather than the fleeting beauty of this world. The teachers at this school tend to force-feed their students information, rather than encourage critical thinking and debate. Events were soon to prove false those predictions of catastrophe, predictions of a fate that was forewished rather than foreseen. Terse, snappy, forceful letters should be used, rather than long, verbose, repetitive, unimpressive, formlike letters. They took infertility as a sign to adopt rather than to do endless treatments in an attempt to produce a freaklitter. Pardon me, for yielding to a temporary impulse of this character, at the hazard of seeming to funeralize, rather than compliment my congregation. Doctors determined that the cause of the itchy rash was fungal rather than bacterial. About fifty years later, in 1675, the Danish astronomer Ole Roemer had the genial idea of using astronomical rather than terrestrial distances. Kant argued like Descartes from the existence of individual consciousness rather than from the givenness of a God found in revelation. Some communities gold-plate their subdivision ordinances because they know that developers, rather than the local voters, are paying. Grammicolepidids have dorsoventrally elongate linear scales rather than the cycloid or ctenoid scales of other zeiform families. Many politicians prefer to grandstand on hot-button issues rather than enact tough policy changes. They wore suits, casual pants, and sports shirts and generally managed to look like solid citizens rather than gym rats. Commerce was flourishing in the kingdom and the rising merchant class was made up largely of haole rather than Hawaiians. Welsh Law emphasised the payment of compensation for a crime to the victim, or the victim's kin, rather than punishment by the ruler. Large bodies of troops, while figuring prominently in the history books, were the exception rather than the rule of ancient warfare. Show More Sentences For example, murder is a common law crime rather than one established by an Act of Parliament. Although MEPs are elected on a national basis, they sit according to political groups rather than their nationality. Hunter was a man who was bi-curious about women, rather than a man who was bi-curious about other men. Hunter was homoflexible. About half of those are located on the European continent, rather than on the British Isles. Bede was a partisan of Rome, regarding Gregory the Great, rather than Augustine, as the true apostle of the English. An exception might be made for the Northern Isles, however, where Pictish was more likely supplanted by Norse rather than by Gaelic. In medial and final position, the aspirated stops are preaspirated rather than aspirated. So, according to Aristotle, the form of apple exists within each apple, rather than in the world of the forms. Others treated Greek philosophical subjects, more often the Platonic and Neoplatonic schools rather than the thought of Aristotle. In spoken Welsh, verb inflection is indicated primarily by the use of auxiliary verbs rather than by the inflection of the main verb. The excavated remains of culled animal bones suggest that people may have gathered at the site for the winter rather than the summer. If I had learned anything that summer, other than Boy Scout stuff, it was that I needed to be the sexual hunter rather than the huntee. Only a few of the largest settlements, like Heuneburg in the south of Germany, were towns rather than villages by modern standards. The cavalry troops were used as scouts and dispatch riders rather than battlefield cavalry. Furthermore, masters who chose to kill slaves rather than take care of them were liable to be charged with murder. There were growing barbarian attacks, but these were focused on vulnerable rural settlements rather than towns. Their study showed that the bulk of the coins circulating before AD 60 was Icenian rather than Roman. The classical orders now became largely decorative rather than structural, except in colonnades. They generally saw themselves as restoring the original church of Jesus Christ rather than reforming one of the existing churches. Surviving examples of such badges come in many colours and they were worn upright rather than as saltires. Show More Sentences Most major advancements in knowledge and technique came from the military rather than civil practice. Pictish is now generally accepted to descend from Common Brittonic, rather than being a separate Celtic language. There they set up their own small kingdoms and the Breton language developed there from Brittonic Insular Celtic rather than Gaulish or Frankish. What we see in these examples is probably continuity of the estate or territory as a unit of administration rather than one of exploitation. The Cissbury mint seems to have worked in close association with the mint at Chichester rather than replacing it. Consequently, it was writers of the sixteenth century who gave Alfred his epithet as 'the Great', rather than any of Alfred's contemporaries. Whether King Sweyn was a heathen or not, he enlisted priests and bishops from England rather than from Hamburg. Norwegian prisons are humane rather than tough with emphasis on rehabilitation. As it was not retroactive, the current successor to the throne is the eldest son of the King, rather than his eldest child. For example, after 1072, William spent more than 75 per cent of his time in France rather than England. Most Normans continued to contract marriages with other Normans or other continental families rather than with the English. Its effect, though, was to destabilise Brittany, forcing the duke, Conan II, to focus on internal problems rather than on expansion. Edward II abdicated on condition that his son would inherit the throne rather than Mortimer. However, the decision to execute her seems a spontaneous, rather than a premeditated, act. Edward was deeply saddened by this news, but rather than hurrying home at once, he made a leisurely journey northwards. For Edward, it became a war of conquest rather than simply a punitive expedition, like the former campaign. This brutality, though, rather than helping to subdue the Scots, had the opposite effect, and rallied growing support for Bruce. By Henry's request he shared his grave with his friend Richard Courtenay, rather than his wife. Many of Llywelyn's Welsh allies had abandoned him during England's invasion of Gwynedd, preferring an overlord far away rather than one nearby. In 1346, Edward invaded France and pillaged the countryside rather than attempt to hold territory. Find more words! 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