" In contrast, Valerie Steele contends, " Paglia has been attacked as an academic conservative, in league with Allan Bloom and other defenders of the ' Western canon ,' but no conservative would be so explicitly approving of pornography, homosexuality, and rock-and-roll.

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 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, Lakoff argues that liberals place more support in a model of the family, which he calls the " nurturant parent model ", based on " nurturant values ", where both " mothers " and " fathers " work to keep the essentially good " children " away from " corrupting influences " ( pollution, social injustice, poverty, etc .).

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.

In marked contrast to earlier constructions and villages on top of the mesas, the cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde reflected a region-wide trend towards the aggregation of growing regional populations into close, highly defensible quarters during the 13th century.

The growing consensus about the endothermy of dinosaurs ( see dinosaur physiology ) helps to understand their full extinction in contrast with their close relatives, the crocodilians.

In contrast, Huston Smith, scholar of world religions, said of the Mitchell version, " This translation comes as close to being definitive for our time as any I can imagine.

The term " low ceiling diuretic " is used to indicate that a diuretic has a rapidly flattening dose effect curve ( in contrast to " high ceiling ", where the relationship is close to linear ).

This is in contrast to dipole parts of the EM field close to the source ( the near-field ), which varies in power according to an inverse cube power law, and thus does not transport a conserved amount of energy over distances, but instead dies away rapidly with distance, with its energy ( as noted ) either rapidly returning to the transmitter, or else absorbed by a nearby receiver ( such as a transformer secondary coil ).

In contrast to games such as Risk or Monopoly, in which a close game can extend indefinitely, German-style games usually have a mechanism to stop the game within its stated playing time.

In contrast to the funds themselves, investment managers are primarily located onshore in order to draw on the major pools of financial talent and to be close to investors.

In contrast, 2X-Y and 2Y-X will be close to the wanted signals.

diphthongs may contrast in how far they open or close.

The brighter yellow star ( actually itself a very close binary system ) makes a striking colour contrast with its fainter blue companion star.

In contrast to the other two forms, authority in the presbyterian polity flows both from the top down ( as higher assemblies exercise limited but important authority over individual congregations, e. g., only the presbytery can ordain ministers, install pastors, and start up, close, and approve relocating a congregation ) and from the bottom up ( e. g., the moderator and officers are not appointed from above but are rather elected by and from among the members of the assembly ).

In contrast to the official negotiations in Madrid, where actual meetings between the delegations were often limited to a few hours a day, the Israeli and Palestinian delegations in Norway were usually accommodated in the same residence, they had breakfast, lunch and dinner at the same table, resulting in mutual respect and close friendships.

By contrast with the conventional device, a reverse-biased zener diode will exhibit a controlled breakdown and allow the current to keep the voltage across the zener diode close to the zener breakdown voltage.

As the time draws to a close, Wordsworth's calm acceptance of death stands in sharp contrast with the Chancellor's increasing panic.

This is in contrast to some open-end funds which are only available for buying and selling at the close of business each day, at the calculated NAV, and for which orders must be placed in advance, before the NAV is known, and by simple buy or sell orders.

In contrast, the market price of an ETF trades in a narrow range very close to its net asset value, because the structure of ETFs allows major market participants to redeem shares of an ETF for a " basket " of the fund's underlying assets.

Parasympathetic ganglia, in contrast, are located in close proximity to the target organ: the submandibular ganglion close to salivary glands, paracardiac ganglia close to the heart etc ...

In contrast, a Sprachraum ( from German, " language area "), also known as a dialect continuum, describes a group of genetically related dialects spoken across a geographical area, differing in their genetic relationship only slightly between areas that are geographically close, and gradually decreasing in mutual intelligibility as distances increase.

Early inductive effects of the axial mesoderm upon the overlying neural ectoderm is the mechanism that establishes the length dimension upon the brain primordium, jointly with establishing what is ventral in the brain ( close to the axial mesoderm ) in contrast with what is dorsal ( distant from the axial mesoderm ).

Dovber, in contrast, set up his court in Mezhirichi, where his lameness restricted him, and devoted his main focus to articulating the mystical-philosophical system within the Baal Shem Tov's teachings to his close circle of disciples, who would lead the future movement.

By contrast, Stac Pollaidh is close to a small road, and the peak offers delightful scrambling.