Christian Hosoi emerged as one of the top competitors of vertical riding alongside such pros as Steve Caballero, Mike McGill, Lester Kasai, and Mark " Gator " Rogowski with an eventual rivalry developing with Tony Hawk with contrasting styles in both skateboarding and lifestyles — Hosoi, known for his flair and graceful style, and Hawk raising the bar with his technical ability and difficult tricks.

Similarly Keener argues that Matthew is contrasting the goodness of the pagan Magi against the residents of Jerusalem as part of his overall advocacy of Christian outreach beyond the Jewish community.

Many Christians anticipate the Second Coming of Jesus, when he will fulfill the rest of Messianic prophecy, such as the Last Judgement, the general resurrection, establishment of the Kingdom of God, and the Messianic Age ( see the article on Preterism for contrasting Christian views ).

The contrasting view that " Achaeans ", as understood through Homer, are " a name without a country ", an ethnos created in the Epic tradition, has modern supporters among those who conclude that " Achaeans " were redefined in the fifth century, as contemporary speakers of Aeolic Greek.

Jehovah's Witnesses now take the contrasting view, believing that Abaddon is another name of the resurrected and enthroned Jesus Christ.

A contrasting view is that in large public companies it is upper management and not boards that wield practical power, because boards delegate nearly all of their power to the top executive employees, adopting their recommendations almost without fail.

Brown also provides a contemporary contrasting view to Bower's when he gives John Shirley's translated account of the events leading up to James's murder in the work The Dethe of the Kynge of Scotis.

A view of Castle Howard in 1819, from the north west, showing the contrasting Palladian West Wing which was built in the mid-18th century.

There were contrasting view about his theological position: on the one hand, he was exiled three times under Arian emperors ; on the other, he was strongly opposed by those faithful to the memory of the staunchly pro-Nicene Eustathius of Antioch, whom the synod of Melitene deposed for his Homousianism ( Nicene trinitarianism ), which they considered a heresy, and by Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, the firm opponent of Arianism.

Heimir Geirsson and Margaret Holmgren argue against the view that different religions can lead to the same God because some regions are incompatible with each other ( monotheistic and polytheistic religions have contrasting views of divinity, for example, and some Greek or Nordic gods magnified human weaknesses ).

Others argue that this view results from an excessively broad interpretation of statements that had a narrower sense in their original context, and from contrasting the infallible documents of the ecumenical council with papal statements that were not infallible because they were not addressed to the whole church.

A contrasting view was expressed by Victor Reis, assistant secretary for Defense Programs within DOE and the chief architect of the Stockpile Stewardship Program.

When flushed the contrasting white wings flash into view

At the summit is an impressive cross and a contrasting view, with the snow-covered Maladeta massif north and the Alto Aragon region to the south.

These fans prefer to view Oz from the contrasting, but more traditional, Oz as Literature standpoint.

Film critic Tadao Sato said Shindo had " inherited from his mentor Mizoguchi his central theme of worship of womanhood ... Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that Shindo's view of women blossomed under his master's encouragement, but once in bloom revealed itself to be of a different hue ... Shindo differs from Mizoguchi by idealizing the intimidating capacity of Japanese women for sustained work, and contrasting them with shamefully lazy men.

In the contrasting view, fueros were privileges granted by a monarch.

Suzuki's contrasting view was that, in its centuries of development in China, Zen ( or Chan ) had absorbed much from indigenous Chinese Taoism.

There are two contrasting points of view on what Leibniz meant by calculus ratiocinator.

* A contrasting point of view stems from synthetic philosophy and fields such as cybernetics, electronic engineering and general systems theory.

Although pop-up windows could be used to focus attention, status lines with contrasting hightlighting or colors can also be used to focus attention, without blocking the view.

Although pop-up windows could be used to focus attention, status lines with contrasting hightlighting or colors can also be used to focus attention, without blocking the view.

The contrasting view, and the one taken by Hirano in establishing this approach, is that each and every ' S ' is a phase.

‘ Let Glasgow Flourish ’ was made to offer a contrasting view of the housing situation to that provided by the Glasgow Corporation Housing Department.

The contrasting Rangtong view of the followers of Prasaṅgika Mādhyamaka is that all phenomena are unequivocally empty of self-nature, without positing anything beyond that.

The town itself maintains a high level of contrasting polarity.

After the celebratory tone of Christ's reception into heaven, marked by the choir's D major acclamation " Let all the angels of God worship him ", the " Whitsun " section proceeds through a series of contrasting moods — serene and pastoral in " How beautiful are the feet ", theatrically operatic in " Why do the nations so furiously rage "— towards the Part II culmination of " Hallelujah ".

They argue that determining which god should be listened to remains a problem and that, even within a religion, contrasting views of God exist – the commands of God in the Old and New Testaments could seem to contradict each other.

" His buildings can be considered total works of art in which architecture and the figurative arts are united to express a predominant idea — the glorification of God or the patron saint in ecclesiastical architecture or the allegorical glorification of the ruler or of the noble patron in secular buildings ... All of his works are composed of several different elements or contrasting features that are harmonized in a unified whole and in reference to their natural and artistic environment ".

The boy's nakedness further enhances the idea of the presence of God, contrasting the youth with the heavily-armored giant.

Dillon does this by contrasting the Noetic cosmos to passages from the Nag Hammadi, where the aeons are expressed as the thoughts of God.

" The degeneration of “ earthly glory ” is presented as inevitable in the poem, contrasting with the theme of salvation through faith in God.

The other play, Omega, was also written by Mike Walker and focuses on belief in God and in miracles, contrasting these issues with the central character's belief in structure and reality.

He currently contributes to The God Contention, a web site comparing and contrasting various worldviews.

In 1980, the General Council of the Assemblies of God criticized the doctrine of positive confession, noting examples of negative confessions in the Bible ( where Biblical figures express fears and doubts ) that had positive results and contrasting these examples with the focus on positive confessions taught by prosperity theology.

Singh was appalled by what he saw as the materialism, emptiness and irreligion he found everywhere, contrasting it with Asia's awareness of God, no matter how limited that might be.

Accordingly we may speak of the Platonism peculiar to Shelley's poems or the type of Stoicism present in Henley's `` Invictus '', and we may find that describing such Platonism or such Stoicism and contrasting each with other expressions of the same attitude or mode of thought is a difficult and challenging enterprise.

Since in practice it is not worth contrasting a zero probability with one that is nearly indistinguishable from zero, he prefers to categorize himself as a " de facto atheist ".

Decoration is characterized by fine hatching, and contrasting colors are produced by the use of mineral-based paint on a chalky background.

The contrasting trio section is in D major and in duple time.

The second funeral is distinguished by themes contrasting with those of the first, as well as by a change in the direction of the plot which leads to Beowulf's fight against Grendel's Mother.

Gujarati is unusual in contrasting breathy-voiced vowels and consonants: ' twelve ', ' outside ', ' burden '.

Albireo, designated Beta Cygni, is a celebrated binary star among amateur astronomers for its contrasting hues.

Omicron Cygni is a contrasting double star similar to the brighter Albireo.

His music is known for employing unusual time signatures, and superimposing contrasting rhythms, meters, and tonalities.

Texture can be made to appear more realistic when it is drawn next to a contrasting texture ; a coarse texture will be more obvious when placed next to a smoothly blended area.

In Following the Fashion ( 1794 ), James Gillray caricatured a figure flattered by the short-bodice d gowns then in fashion, contrasting it with an imitator whose figure is not flattered.

A " blockbuster " or " roller " is a large piece, almost always done in a block shaped style, done simply to cover a large area solidly with two contrasting colours, sometimes with the whole purpose of blocking other writers from painting on the same wall.

Over the succeeding 47 chapters, Jesus is recorded as developing the theme that the ancient prophets, specifically Obadiah, Haggai and Hosea, were holy hermits following this religious rule ; and contrasting their followers – termed " true Pharisees " – with the " false Pharisees " who lived in the world, and who constituted his chief opponents.

This kind of generalization versus specialization ( or particularization ) is reflected in the mirror of the contrasting words hypernym and hyponym.

GPRS usage is typically charged based on volume of data transferred, contrasting with circuit switched data, which is usually billed per minute of connection time.

The Emperor of Japan is defined as a symbol, not head, of state by the post-war constitution ( contrasting with the former divine status ) but is treated as an imperial head of state under diplomatic protocol ( even ranking above kings ) and retains Shinto mystique.

There is, however, a contrasting study noting increased cancer incidence after radioiodine treatment for hyperthyroidism.

" In the end the narrator is never fully able to come to terms with the contrasting masculine and feminine modalities.

Yet another contrasting model is the persistent metaphor of a social contract.