In contrast, the KMT or pan-blue coalition agrees that the Republic of China is an independent and sovereign country that is not part of the PRC, but argues that a one China principle ( with different definitions across the strait ) can be used as the basis for talks with the PRC.

It is a term coined by Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge to contrast with their model of punctuated equilibrium, which is gradualist itself, but argues that most evolution is marked by long periods of evolutionary stability ( called stasis ), which is punctuated by rare instances of branching evolution.

In contrast, Paglia argues that a close reading of historical texts find that men do not hate women but fear them.

In contrast he argues that the ancient story of dying and rising in the divine, human and crops, ( with Osiris as an example ), is vindicated and reaches a conclusion in Christianity.

In contrast, historian Ben Rubin argues that because the American Revolution was a conflict that as often pitted neighbor against neighbor — Whigs ( advocates of Revolution ) against Tories ( loyalists to Britain )— as it pitted nascent Americans against the British, many people stayed neutral until goaded into taking a stand in reaction to military atrocities, such as those attributed to Tarleton, or individual atrocities, such as the death of Thomas Young's brother, or the burning of Thomas Sumter's house and the abuse of his wife, or the interrogation at knife point of William Bratton's wife, the beating of their young son, and the family's imprisonment in their own attic -- individual atrocities similar to those depicted in The Patriot.

In contrast to the theology held by other Jewish thinkers, Jewish theologian Louis Jacobs argues, Gersonides held that God does not have complete foreknowledge of human acts.

L. T. Fitz outwardly claims that early criticism of Antony and Cleopatra is “ colored by the sexist assumptions the critics have brought with them to their reading .” Fitz argues that previous criticisms place a heavy emphasis on Cleopatra ’ s “ wicked and manipulative ” ways, which are further emphasized by her association with Egypt and her contrast to the “ chaste and submissive ” Roman Octavia.

In contrast, in a concurrently published response, Clive Tolley argues that the term must have originated in historical usage, and as such " it is something of a misrepresentation of the evidence to suggest that Snorri is the main source for the vanir.

In contrast, continuing the same journal thread, Leszek P. Słupecki argues that the Vanir remained distinct from the Æsir — except for Freyja and Freyr, whom he follows Snorri in seeing as having been born after Njörðr became a hostage among the Æsir, and thus regards as Æsic — and therefore that Ragnarök " no importance for their world ".

Hutton argues that Dickens sought to construct Christmas as a self-centred festival of generosity, in contrast to the community-based and church-centred observations, the observance of which had dwindled during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Sidney Rosenzweig argues that Curtiz did have his own distinctive style, which was in place by the time of his move to America: " high crane shots to establish a story's environment ; unusual camera angles and complex compositions in which characters are often framed by physical objects ; much camera movement ; subjective shots, in which the camera becomes the character's eye ; and high contrast lighting with pools of shadows ".

In contrast, Professor Kees W. Bolle of the University of California, Los Angeles argues that " Professor Eliade's approach, in all his works, is empirical ": Bolle sets Eliade apart for what he sees as Eliade's particularly close " attention to the various particular motifs " of different myths.

But in contrast to Descartes, who considered it possible to form a clear and distinct idea of the mind, Malebranche argues in the Dialogues on Metaphysics, a dialogue between Theodore and Aristes, that we do not have a complete conception of the powers of the mind, and thus no clear conception of the nature of the mind.

In contrast, Jansen argues, Khomeini came to power advocating a system of Islamic government where the highest authority is the hands of the ulamā ( see Wilayat al Faqih ).

Knights, by contrast, argues that that the speech is deliberately excessive and highly-wrought because Margaret is trying to deflect the already confused and dejected Henry from accusing Suffolk of the murder.

In contrast, Plato argues that the unjust man ’ s soul, without the virtues, is chaotic and at war with itself, so that even if he were able to satisfy most of his desires, his lack of inner harmony and unity thwart any chance he has of achieving eudaimonia.

By contrast, AI argues, when all members of an organization are motivated to understand and value the most favourable features of its culture, it can make rapid improvements.

In contrast to this positivist view, he argues, sentences with truth-values form only a small part of the range of utterances.

In contrast, Hallett argues for increasing the numbers of poems attributed to Sulpicia to include poems 13-18 from the Corpus Tibullianum, which had previously been attributed to the " amicus Sulpiciae " ( boyfriend of Sulpicia ).

By contrast Amartya Sen argues for an understanding of freedom in terms of capabilities to pursue a range of goals.

In contrast to conservative media commentators, Alterman argues that the press is biased against liberals rather than biased in their favor.

Edwin Pulleyblank has argued that the tables contain enough evidence to reconstruct the speech of that later period, which he calls this language Late Middle Chinese in contrast to the Early Middle Chinese of the Qieyun, and argues that it was the standard speech of the imperial capital Chang ' an in the late Tang dynasty.

He argues that in doing so they have repeatedly shown a total disregard for democracy and human rights, in stark contrast to the U. S. government's professed support for those values.

In addition, the FSF also argues that " GNU / Linux recognizes the role that our idealism played in building our community, and helps the public recognize the practical importance of these ideals ", in contrast to the focus on " technical advantage " rather than " freedom " of the Linux kernel developers.

Another regularly asserted contrast between classical and modern liberals: classical liberals tend to see government power as the enemy of liberty, while modern liberals fear the concentration of wealth and the expansion of corporate power.

The general ideological enthusiasm among the liberals for the Kulturkampf was in contrast to Bismarck's pragmatic attitude towards the measures and growing disquiet from the Conservatives.

In contrast, the bourgeois liberals saw the unrests as further proof for what they saw as the short-sighted and irresponsible stance of the left, and of the dangers of a " left-wing mob " spreading anarchy and murder.

Conservative Baptists is a name used to describe members of the Conservative Baptist Association of America ( an association formed in 1947 at Atlantic City, New Jersey ), used loosely as the larger " Conservative Baptist Movement ", or used as a description of Baptists that hold a " conservative " viewpoint of theology in contrast to " liberals ".

Scientific socialists view social and political developments as being largely determined by economic conditions as opposed to ideas in contrast to utopian socialists and classical liberals, and thus understand that social relations and notions of morality are context-based relative to their specific stage of economic development.

In contrast to most other liberals in Latin America, the Honduran liberals remained united in one party, the Liberal Party of Honduras ( Partido Liberal de Honduras ).

In contrast to the rationalist approaches above, cognitivists critique the rationalist theories on the grounds that liberals and realists both use flawed assumptions such as that nation-states are always and forever rational actors ; that interests remain static, that different interpretations of interests and power are not possible.

By contrast, 21 % were " liberals ," of whom 13 % voted for Bush ; 45 % were " moderates " and they voted 45 % for Bush.

It is an exotic place, so different from the ordinary that the casual tourist is likely to see at first only the contrast and the ugliness of narrow streets lined with haphazard houses.

In the final aspect of the vision, Israel ’ s restoration, as a holy place, is declared in contrast to the Edomite lineage that shall end.

* Sport climbing is a form of rock climbing that relies on permanent anchors fixed to the rock, and possibly bolts, for protection, ( in contrast with traditional climbing, where the rock is typically devoid of fixed anchors and bolts, and where climbers must place removable protection as they climb ).

In contrast to Judaism and many other traditions, he taught that there is a place for voluntary singleness in Christian service.

In contrast, when endothermic reactions occur, energy is absorbed to place an electron in a higher energy state, such that the electron can associate with another atom to form another chemical complex.

In contrast, the multiregional hypothesis proposed that Homo genus contained only a single interconnected population like it does today ( not separate species ), and that its evolution took place worldwide continuously over the last couple million years.

The Apsu was figured as the abyss of water beneath the earth, and since the gathering place of the dead, known as Aralu, was situated near the confines of the Apsu, he was also designated as En-Ki ; i. e. " lord of that which is below ", in contrast to Anu, who was the lord of the " above " or the heavens.

Heaven is often described as a " higher place ", the holiest place, a Paradise, in contrast to Hell or the Underworld or the " low places ", and universally or conditionally accessible by earthly beings according to various standards of divinity, goodness, piety, faith, or other virtues or right beliefs or simply the Will of God.

Motherland may refer to a mother country, i. e. the place of one's birth, the place of origin of an ethnic group or immigrant, or a Metropole in contrast to its colonies.

In contrast, the vocational higher education and training that takes place at vocational universities and schools usually concentrates on practical applications, with very little theory.

In contrast, Neusner views each rabbinic document as an individual piece of evidence that can only shed light on the more local Judaisms of such specific document's place of origin and the specific Judaism of the author.

One example is the contrast between birth and death, and birth and berth, and told and toll'd in Thomas Hood's account of the death of Ben the sailor ( which took place at the age of 40, contrasted with his age of zero at birth ) in his humorous poem Faithless Sally Brown:

While the nonrestorative methods can improve contrast by removing out-of-focus light from focal planes, only the restorative methods can actually reassign light to its proper place of origin.

Post-structuralists, in contrast to Structuralists, tend to place a great deal of skepticism on the independence of theoretical premises from collective bias and the influence of power, and reject the notion of a " pure " or " scientific " methodology in social analysis, semiotics or philosophical speculation.

In contrast, eukaryotes make mRNA in the cell nucleus and then translocate it across the nuclear membrane into the cytoplasm, where protein synthesis then takes place.

In the medieval period Padstow was commonly called Aldestowe ( as the ' old place ' in contrast to Bodmin the ' new place ').

The Oratorians, by contrast, reserved it a lesser place, in part due to the stress they placed on modern language acquisition and a more sensualist philosophy ( like Bernard Lamy's La Rhétorique ou l ' Art de parler ( 1675 ) which is an excellent example of their approach ).

In contrast, military communication systems such as JTRS, which place a great deal of importance on robustness and information security, typically use very proprietary methods.

Newton firmly rejected such criticisms and wrote that it was enough that the phenomena implied gravitational attraction, as they did ; but the phenomena did not so far indicate the cause of this gravity, and it was both unnecessary and improper to frame hypotheses of things not implied by the phenomena: such hypotheses " have no place in experimental philosophy ", in contrast to the proper way in which " particular propositions are inferr'd from the phenomena and afterwards rendered general by induction ".

De Bary clearly demonstrated that P. graminis required different hosts during the different stages of its development ( a phenomenon he called " heteroecism " in contrast to " autoecism ", when development takes place only in one host ).

The city's name is pronounced by Bulgarians with a stress on the ' o ', in contrast with the tendency of foreigners to place the stress on ' i '.