The son of a tea merchant based in Bristol, in youth Robert had considered becoming a Baptist minister, but instead became a staunch freethinker while studying at the University of Edinburgh.
He trained for medicine, but instead became a writer - like Anton Chekhov.
He did not join the global jihad but instead became a prominent critic of Guantánamo, writing a book and making countless media appearances to denounce the American prison.
Ms. Freedman said the movie started as a spoof of suburbia but instead became a paean to "the many positive sides of life in Peekskill".
Geoffrey H. Moore, who wanted to run a chicken farm but instead became a world-renowned analyst of business cycles, died Thursday at his home in Bloomfield, Conn.
"I was proud to be Syrian, but instead became a soldier for a regime that was intent on killing its own people," Mr. Omar said on a recent day, chain-smoking at a cafe in this Turkish border town.
Mother Nature choreographed the reunion of the damned with a wet, gloomy day, encapsulating an era that once made the promise of being amazing but instead became a crying shame.
The charges came about two years after the overhaul of the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor, the agency that was supposed to prevent corruption at the ports, but instead became a sideshow of misconduct.
But what always fascinates me about his early life is the dog that didn't bark: the fact that, at 17, he didn't go from school to university, as you might expect, but instead became a Bristol journalist.
Going for a 2-point conversion after the Hunter return, Clements called "Power I Right, Tackle Trap, Pass Left," a Parseghian favorite that faked a run to the right from a bunched, two tight-end formation but instead became a pass to the left.
