Where there is comparison or contrast, dominant stresses normally operate to center attention.

But the use of stress in comparison and contrast, for example, can undermine distinctions such as these.

As of 1987, he replaced the term " mass comparison " with " multilateral comparison ", to emphasize its contrast with the bilateral comparisons recommended in linguistics textbooks.

In contrast to contemporaries such as Lester Bangs, Ian Penman and Nick Tosches, whose music writings are marked by idiosyncratic, self-referential and highly personal styles, Guralnick's writing is characterized by a colloquial approach that is clean and understated by comparison.

Others books, such as Media and the Make-believe Worlds of Children, have noted a similar comparison, citing Mewtwo as " more aggressive-looking " compared to Mew and emphasizing the importance of the contrast for children.

He described the availability of movement in comparison to Tekken 3 as a large contrast between the two series and more tactical, and emphasized how it interacted with the game's " ring out " feature.

For comparison / contrast purposes, crosses (†) indicate which of the listed films ( if any ) won the Best Picture Oscar that same year.

The Prime Minister's criticisms were viewed as particularly surprising since the FSA's brand of light-touch financial regulation has typically been popular with banks and financial institutions in comparison with the more prescriptive rules-based regulation employed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission and by other European regulators ; by contrast, most critiques of the FSA accuse it of instigating a regulatory " race to the bottom " aimed at attracting foreign companies at the expense of consumer protection.

In contrast, the Upper Canada Rebellion was not broadly supported by local populations to begin with, was quickly quelled by relatively small numbers of pro-government militias and volunteers, and so was consequently less widespread and brutal in comparison.

Much of her popularity in comparison to other sea deities resulted from her role as a compassionate motherly protector in contrast to authoritarian father figures like the Dragon Kings.

However, the Grand Marquis remained in production ; in contrast to the Dodge Charger selling nearly as well as its Chrysler 300 counterpart, the Montego sold only a fraction in comparison to its Ford Five Hundred counterpart and was also outsold by the Grand Marquis as well.

Atlantic Ocean birds have darker wings and back by comparison with Mediterranean birds, creating a more pronounced contrast to the white parts.

Aggression and hyperactivity as rated by the children's teachers were significantly improved in comparison to placebo ; in contrast, parents and clinicians could not distinguish between the effects of bupropion and placebo.

The book Media and the Make-believe Worlds of Children noted a similar comparison, describing Mew as " child-like and gentle, combining characteristics of power and cuteness " and emphasizing the importance of the contrast for children between it and Mewtwo, and its role as a source of appeal for the character.

The MMPI-2-RF computer scoring offers an option for the administrator to select a specific reference group with which to contrast and compare an individual's obtained scores ; comparison groups include clinical, non-clinical, medical, forensic, and pre-employment settings, to name a few.

Through survey results, from 305 participants, a comparison and contrast of online and offline spiral of silence behaviors was determined.

In contrast to social comparison theory and persuasive argumentation theory, the self-categorization model maintains that inter-group categorization processes are the cause of group polarization

Not being a JV, they are considered here only in comparison or contrast.

The climate of the town is characterized by a great contrast between summer and winter temperatures in comparison with the coastal Primorye.

In comparison to Konami's Bemani line-up and other arcade rhythm games, there has been negligible emphasis on electronic music in Pump, but the first instances of electronic music on Pump occurred on NX2, as five crossovers from the American-made spinoff appeared, who in contrast, has a greater emphasis on electronic music.

In comparison to LCDs, all of these technologies offer better viewing angles, much higher brightness and contrast ratio ( as much as 5, 000, 000: 1 ), and better color saturation and accuracy, and use less than 1 / 10 as much power.

For comparison, The Lord's Prayer is here reproduced in the Neapolitan spoken in Naples and in a northern Calabrian dialect, in contrast with a variety of southern Calabrian ( part of Sicilian language ), Italian and Latin.

In contrast to her Outlaw Star appearance, the major differences are her hair ( which is far more wild-looking, including a more defined red streak which can only be seen in her final scene in " Law and Lawlessness " and on the opposite side ) and her personality ( which is more relaxed in comparison to being so " by-the-book " in Outlaw Star ).

This method of paving has a high cost and reduced longevity in comparison with concrete-based or bituminous alternatives.

Brushless motors otherwise called outrunners or inrunners have become very popular with radio controlled airplane hobbyists because of their efficiency, power, longevity and light weight in comparison to traditional brushed motors.

* Basilica Palladiana, centrally located in Vicenza's Piazza dei Signori, of which Palladio himself said that it might stand comparison with any similar work of antiquity ;

Eighth Wonder of the World is a term sometimes used to describe things in comparison to the Seven Wonders of the World, the widely-known list of seven remarkable constructions of classical antiquity.

and as the cost of local government increases, the demand for such comparison also increases.

It is as follows: `` The usual sensitivity tests showed that the specific qualities of skin-perceptiveness ( pressure, pain, temperature ), as well as the kinesthetic sensations ( muscular feelings, feelings in the tendons and joints ), were, as such, essentially intact, although they seemed, in comparison with normal reactions, to be somewhat diminished over the entire body.

In comparison to the classical quick arbitrage transaction, such an operation can produce disastrous losses.

By comparison Whorf's other work in linguistics, the development of such concepts as the allophone and the cryptotype, and the formulation of " Whorf's law " in Uto-Aztecan historical linguistics, have met with broad acceptance.

Phantom cats ( an example of living animals supposedly found outside of their normal range ) are a common subject of cryptozoological interest, largely due to the relative likelihood of existence in comparison to fantastical cryptids lacking any evidence of existence, such as Mothman.

The conception originally found its way to us as the result of such a comparison.

By comparison, the former colony of the United Province of Canada ( divided into the District of Canada East, and the District of Canada West ) and the western provinces were dozens of times larger and in some cases were expanded to take in territory formerly held in British Crown grants to companies such as the Hudson's Bay Company ; in particular the November 19, 1869 sale of Rupert's Land to the Government of Canada under the Rupert's Land Act 1868 was facilitated in part by Maritime taxpayers.

For example, Darwinism may be used to refer to Darwin's proposed mechanism of natural selection, in comparison to more recent mechanisms such as genetic drift and gene flow.

The usual meaning of gnostikos in Classical Greek texts is " learned " or " intellectual ", such as used in the comparison of " practical " ( praktikos ) and " intellectual " ( gnostikos ) in Plato's dialogue between Young Socrates and the Foreigner in his The Statesman ( 258e ).

The rule does not make any statement about whether any particular reference or comparison to Adolf Hitler or the Nazis might be appropriate, but only asserts that the likelihood of such a reference or comparison arising increases as the discussion progresses, irrespective of whether it is appropriate or not.

Precisely because such a comparison or reference may sometimes be appropriate, Godwin has argued that overuse of Nazi and Hitler comparisons should be avoided, because it robs the valid comparisons of their impact.

For example, there is a tradition in many newsgroups and other Internet discussion forums that once such a comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever debate was in progress.

It is considered poor form to raise such a comparison arbitrarily with the motive of ending the thread.

The law and its corollaries would not apply to discussions covering known mainstays of Nazi Germany such as genocide, eugenics or racial superiority, nor, more debatably, to a discussion of other totalitarian regimes or ideologies, if that was the explicit topic of conversation, since a Nazi comparison in those circumstances may be appropriate, in effect committing the fallacist's fallacy.

Hash functions are mostly used to accelerate table lookup or data comparison tasks such as finding items in a database, detecting duplicated or similar records in a large file, finding similar stretches in DNA sequences, and so on.

" Although such similarities have given rise to arguments for the existence of a standardized system of urban layout and planning, the similarities are largely due to the presence of a semi-orthogonal type of civic layout, and a comparison of the layouts of Mohenjo-daro and Harappa shows that they are in fact, arranged in a quite dissimilar fashion.

Support for the Internet standard protocols allows many e-mail clients such as Pegasus Mail or Mozilla Thunderbird ( see comparison of e-mail clients ) to access these servers, and allows the clients to be used with other servers ( see list of mail servers ).

For comparison, milk heat pasteurization is not being alleged to be a method " to cover up poor food quality "; consequently, food irradiation should not be accused to serve such criminal purposes.

The practical methods relied on a comparison of local time with the time at a given place ( such as Greenwich or Paris ).

Knowing such measurements without an accurate time could only show position in latitude which was a trivial problem in comparison.

For comparison, woven garments stretch mainly along one direction ( the bias ) and are not very elastic, unless they are woven from stretchable material such as spandex.

Human language is unique in comparison to other forms of communication, such as those used by non-human animals.

Nostradamus claimed to base his published predictions on judicial astrology — the astrological ' judgement ', or assessment, of the ' quality ' ( and thus potential ) of events such as births, weddings, coronations etc .— but was heavily criticized by professional astrologers of the day such as Laurens Videl for incompetence and for assuming that " comparative horoscopy " ( the comparison of future planetary configurations with those accompanying known past events ) could actually predict what would happen in the future.