The second series was the first to establish the familiar Blackadder character: cunning, shrewd and witty, in sharp contrast to the bumbling Prince Edmund of the first series.

In contrast, Gram-negative bacteria have a relatively thin cell wall consisting of a few layers of peptidoglycan surrounded by a second lipid membrane containing lipopolysaccharides and lipoproteins.

This was in contrast to its predecessors, the 1541 and 1570, which could fully utilize such disks only if the user manually flipped them over to access the second side.

The form was felt by the ancients to contrast the rising action of the first verse with a falling quality in the second.

In contrast, Newton's second law in a rotating frame of reference, rotating at angular rate Ω about an axis, takes the form:

The second caveat is that the human eye can only image a contrast ratio of a maximum of about 200: 1.

The second application for UV microscopes is contrast enhancement where the response of individual samples is enhanced, relative to their surrounding, due to the interaction of light with the molecules within the sample itself.

The second ( more recent and more advanced ) technique employs focal plane array detection for infrared chemical imaging, where the image contrast is determined by the response of individual sample regions to particular IR wavelengths selected by the user.

In stark contrast to its predecessor, Huevos was recorded in a swift, fiery fashion, with many first takes, and minimal second guessing.

This meta-analysis was controversial and stands in stark contrast with two different reviews also performed in 2006 by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and a second JAMA review ; both indicated decreases in total mortality and cardiovascular incidents ( i. e., myocardial infarctions ) associated with the regular consumption of fish and fish oil supplements.

In contrast, the second ionization energy is very high ( 3052 kJ / mol ), because removal of two electrons breaks the stable noble gas electronic configuration.

In contrast to the black-uniformed Allgemeine SS ( the political wing of the SS ), the Waffen-SS ( the military wing ) evolved into a second German army aside the Wehrmacht ( the regular national armed forces ) and operating in tandem with them ; especially with the Heer ( German Army ).

* By contrast, the event of getting a 6 the first time a die is rolled and the event that the sum of the numbers seen on the first and second trials is 8 are not independent.

* By contrast, if two cards are drawn without replacement from a deck of cards, the event of drawing a red card on the first trial and that of drawing a red card on the second trial are again not independent.

In contrast, the second question turned out to be much more difficult, and the question became a famous open problem in formal language theory for over two decades.

In contrast to absolute thermodynamic temperatures, empirical temperatures are measured just by the mechanical properties of bodies, such as their volumes, without reliance on the concepts of energy, entropy or the first, second, or third laws of thermodynamics.

White and black form the second great contrast, which is static.

The third-order intercept point relates nonlinear products caused by the third-order nonlinear term to the linearly amplified signal, in contrast to the second-order intercept point that uses second order terms.

By contrast, the rest of Europe combined sent only 882, 412 people from 1500 to 1795, and the fleet of the English ( later British ) East India Company, the VOC ’ s nearest competitor, was a distant second to its total traffic with 2, 690 ships and a mere one-fifth the tonnage of goods carried by the VOC.

The second ( or middle ) minuet usually provided some form of contrast, by means of different key and orchestration.

Languages that contrast three quantities in diphthongs are extremely rare, but not unheard of ; Northern Sami is known to contrast long, short and " finally stressed " diphthongs, the last of which are distinguished by a long second element.

The film, in contrast, ends with Kay's realization of Michael's ruthlessness, a theme that would develop in the second and third films, which were largely not based on the original novel.

Ballistic missile submarines established a second strike capability through their stealth and by the number fielded by each Cold War adversary — it was highly unlikely that all of them could be targeted and preemptively destroyed ( in contrast to, for example, a missile silo with a fixed location that could be targeted during a first strike ).

In contrast, the largest North American community north of the circle, Sisimiut ( Greenland ), has approximately 5, 000 inhabitants, while between Canada and the USA, Barrow, Alaska is the largest settlement with circa 4, 000 inhabitants.

The largest species are red alder ( A. rubra ) on the west coast of North America, and black alder ( A. glutinosa ), native to most of Europe and widely introduced elsewhere, both reaching over 30 m. By contrast, the widespread Alnus viridis ( green alder ) is rarely more than a 5 m tall shrub.

With GDP per capita of less than $ 2, 000, North Korea remains as one of the world's poorest and least developed countries, in sharp contrast to its neighbor South Korea, which has one of the largest economies in Asia.

In contrast, modern genetics has developed a view on sex determination in which no one single factor is responsible for determining sex ; a number of pro-male, anti-male and pro-female genes being responsible, though the largest factor is whether the male's gamete carries an X or Y chromosome.

Webb has the most land area of any town in New York State, making it New York State's largest town, a title it shares with the town of Hempstead, which is the largest based on population ( in contrast, the town of Green Island claims to be the smallest based on area ).

Indonesia, in contrast, began witnessing a revival of ulama activity which culminated in 1926 in the founding of the Nahdlatul Ulama, today one of the world's largest Muslim organizations.

The largest species, the South American S. populator, had higher shoulders than hips and a back that sloped downwards, superficially recalling the shape of a hyena, in contrast to the level-backed appearance of S. fatalis, which was more like that of modern cats.

The president can choose whomever he wants — this is in contrast with parliamentary systems in which the head of state has to appoint the leader of the largest party in the legislature — and in fact, only a handful of prime ministers were the leader of their own party upon taking office.

In contrast to most other wine-producing regions, Canada, particularly the Niagara Peninsula, consistently undergoes freezing in winter and has become the world's largest ice wine producer.

In contrast to most other provinces, the capital Songkhla is not the largest city in the province.

The largest species of broom is Mount Etna broom ( Genista aetnensis ), which can make a small tree to 10 m tall ; by contrast, some other species, e. g. dyer's broom Genista tinctoria, are low sub-shrubs, barely woody at all.

In contrast to the general prekindergarten population, disadvantaged children and those attending schools with " low levels of academic instruction " get the largest and most lasting academic gains.

In contrast to the neighbouring fragmented Spanish possessions, the Portuguese colony, built up by the Portuguese in Latin America, kept its territorial unity and linguistic integrity after the independence, giving rise to the largest country in the region.

On the west coast, in contrast, they are fewer but larger ; Kaipara Harbour is the country's largest, and the Hokianga Harbour, further north, is of historical significance to the native Māori people.

In contrast to Huntingdon, there have been vast amounts of archaeological finds in the centre of Godmanchester, which has two conservation areas with a large number of timber-framed Tudor houses, the largest being Tudor Farm, dating from 1600 and restored in 1995.

A main reason behind Franco's selection was that he represented one of the largest states ( in contrast to Collor, who was from small state of Alagoas ), and publicly he gained during his call for impeachment against President José Sarney for an alleged corruption.

The confession is not necessarily based on any prescribed forms or dogmatic rules, in contrast to what is customary in the " Protestantse Kerk in Nederland ", the largest Protestant denomination in the country ; a denomination that unifies a number of Calvinist and Lutheran traditions.

In contrast, the largest home improvement store in the US, Home Depot, has a 30 % market share, and the largest coffee house Starbucks has a 32 % market share.

In striking contrast to his slim 1981 victory, he won re-election in 1985 with the largest margin of victory in the history of New Jersey gubernatorial races, defeating Peter Shapiro, then Essex County Executive, 71 %– 24 %.

By contrast, the Basler Handelsbank ( Commercial Bank of Basel ), founded in 1862 and one of the largest banks in Switzerland, was insolvent at the end of the war and was consequently acquired by SBC in 1945.

The Alaskan Malamute, by contrast, is " the largest and most powerful " sled dog, and was used for heavier loads.