Instead of contesting the evidence of French prosecutors in court, he insisted that the defendants were resistance fighters in a just war of liberation and challenged the legal and moral legitimacy of the trials.
Instead of contesting the cancellation of The Second Coming, he left Channel 4 and vowed to not work with them again.
Had last year's elections been free and fair, Mr. Tsvangirai would have been elected president, but instead of continuing to contest the results he eventually agreed to serve as prime minister.
It was a case of police entrapment, common in those years, but instead of pleading no contest to avoid a public trial, as homosexuals usually did, Mr. Jennings, at Mr. Hay's insistence, went to trial with a lawyer hired by Mattachine, and swore that yes, he was homosexual, but no, he had not solicited.
The writer and radio presenter Francine Stock described it as "a kind of modern equivalent of the crowd response at a gladiatorial contest, but instead of using the thumbs up and thumbs down, we're using our dialling fingers".
It was essentially a beauty contest, but instead of being crowned Miss America, the winner got to sign a prenup, marry a very rich real estate developer and go on a honeymoon in a matter of hours.
"For example, let's say you won a prize for the best essay in a writing contest but instead of congratulating you he says, 'Oh, big deal.
It's basically that kiss-a-car contest but instead of winning a car, you get to ride some roller coasters, and instead of kissing, you get to lie motionless in a dark, wooden box for hours as your deepest fears and anxieties well inside you.
