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Santa Anna took charge of the Mexican forces upon his return; but instead of acting for peace, he led his men against the United States until he was routed by U.S. forces under Gen. Winfield Scott.

In 2002, Valthaty played for India in the under-19 World Cup in New Zealand, but instead of acting as a springboard for his career, the Cup proved his downfall when he suffered an eye injury.

But instead of acting directly, for example to constrain what multiple of their income homebuyers could borrow, the PRA would use so-called sectoral capital requirements to give banks pause for thought before they make risky loans.

But instead of acting as proxies projecting Turkey's influence, they turned on their benefactor.

The intermittent mass extinctions are also important, but instead of acting as a selective force, they drastically reduce diversity in a nonspecific manner and promote bursts of rapid evolution and speciation in survivors.

She performs for me at my surprise birthday party, but instead of acting like a constipated self-important square, I kick everyone out of our apartment and fuck her like I'm JFK after 40 days of fidelity for Lent. .

They insist - correctly at times - that Russians are antisocial and fragmented, and instead of acting as citizens they act as pathologically profit-maximizing individualists.

At 16 he appeared in a musical called "White Horse Inn," but by the late 1930s, instead of acting he was working as a gofer for the theatrical producer Mike Todd, who was putting on attractions at the World's Fair.

So that instead of acting from fear or depletion, you act from knowledge.

Instead of acting out of fear, we need to act out of courage.

Instead of acting like a single speaker, the cicada's left and right tymbals may act like two speakers that produce sound waves that constructively combine.