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The term is used for any kind of deed executed by more than one party, in contrast to a deed poll which is made by one individual.
" In contrast, Johnson's Republican opponent, Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, believing it gave too much power to the federal government ( Goldwater did in fact support civil rights in general ; for example the 1957 and 1960 Civil Rights Acts as well as the 24th Amendment banning the poll tax.
By contrast, an October 12 SurveyUSA poll had Strickland leading Blackwell 60 % to 32 %.
According to Turcotte and Parkin, other poll data reveal that “ in contrast to Francophones, Anglophones, in general, have resisted putting more government effort and resources into promoting bilingualism ….
An August 2008 Zogby International poll, commissioned by the Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans, found that approximately one half of Iranian Americans identified themselves as registered Democrats, in contrast to one in eight as Republicans and one in four as independents ( 2008 ).

contrast and only
In contrast to the caravan of the previous night, there were only four cars parked across the street.
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.
Even when they are finished, however, the contrast will remain, for Istanbul is the only city in the world that is built upon two continents.
These areas, by virtue of their abrupt density of pattern, stated the literal surface with such new and superior force that the resulting contrast drove the simulated printing into a depth from which it could be rescued -- and set to shuttling again -- only by conventional perspective ; ;
And the surface is driven back, in its very surfaceness, only by this contrast.
In Pimen's cell the soft prayers of the monks, heard from offstage, not only help to set the scene but emphasize the contrast between young Grigori's thoughts and his situation.
In contrast with other continents, it is marked by the comparatively small area of either very high or very low ground, lands under occupying an unusually small part of the surface ; while not only are the highest elevations inferior to those of Asia or South America, but the area of land over is also quite insignificant, being represented almost entirely by individual peaks and mountain ranges.
In contrast to World War II, Germany fielded very few tanks during WWI, with only 15 of the A7V type being produced in Germany during the war.
In contrast, stellar aberration is independent of the distance of a celestial object from the observer, and depends only on the observer's instantaneous transverse velocity in certain frame of reference, at the moment of observation.
BBC Text also enabled channel association, the ability for the user to retain their selected television channel visible in one section of the screen whilst viewing the text service, in contrast to Ceefax, which could only be viewed as a full-screen display, or as a semitransparent overlay ( i. e. opaque blocks of colour on top of the television channel, with the black background now transparent ; not ' translucent blocks of colour with a translucent black background ') above the television picture.
In contrast, only about one third of mainline Protestants and one sixth of Catholics ( Anglo and Latino ) claim a born-again experience.
In stark contrast with its SSI and MSI predecessors, the first LSI implementation of the PDP-11 contained a CPU composed of only four LSI integrated circuits.
By contrast, the album had limited success in the US, only reaching number 83 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart.
In contrast, Henry VII was the descendant of Gaunt's third marriage to Katherine Swynford, whose children were born out of wedlock and only legitimised after the death of Constance and the marriage of John to Katherine.
By contrast to the above philosophers, Immanuel Kant held that the account of the concept as an abstraction of experience is only partly correct.
Stalin, in contrast to the others, has often been viewed as standing alone ; as Jerry F. Hough explained, he has often been viewed as " a cynical Machiavellian interested only in power.
With new acquired powers, Khrushchev was able to appoint associates to the leadership in Georgia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Armenia and Moldavia ( modern Moldova ), while Malenkov, in contrast, was able to appoint an associate to leadership only in Moscow.
The Crucifix, a cross with the corpus ( Body of Christ ), is an ancient symbol used within the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, and Lutheran churches, in contrast with some Protestant groups, which use only a simple cross.
* This article only considers the mainstream Christian views, in contrast to, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Adventism, Early Christianity, Nontrinitarianism and others.
* This article only considers the mainstream Jewish views, in contrast to Karaite Judaism.
Critical theory was first defined by Max Horkheimer of the Frankfurt School of sociology in his 1937 essay Traditional and Critical Theory: Critical theory is a social theory oriented toward critiquing and changing society as a whole, in contrast to traditional theory oriented only to understanding or explaining it.
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.
In contrast, prokaryotes ( bacteria and archaea ) store their DNA only in the cytoplasm.
In contrast, Schabus and Gruber point out that sleep spindle activity only relates to performance on newly learned memories and not to absolute performance.
Diocletian, by contrast, was prodigious in his affairs: there are around 1, 200 rescripts in his name still surviving, and these probably represent only a small portion of the total issue.

contrast and 50
There are additional inefficiencies arising from the highly fragmented nature of the municipal bond market which has two million outstanding issues and 50, 000 issuers in contrast to the Treasury market which has 400 issues and a single issuer.
In contrast, MPLS local protection meets the requirements of real-time applications with recovery times comparable to those of SONET rings of less than 50 ms.
Neo Geo CD game prices were low at $ 50, in contrast to Neo Geo AES game cartridges, which cost as much as $ 300.
In particular, the mean density, moment of inertia, rotational signature, and magnetic induction response all suggest that the radius of the core is less than about 25 % the radius of the Moon, in contrast to about 50 % for most of the other terrestrial bodies.
The Mavericks have won 50 or more regular season games in 11 consecutive seasons, dating back to 2001 — a stark contrast ( and almost diametrically opposed ) to the 10-season streak of losing seasons from the 1990 – 91 to the 1999 – 2000 season.
In contrast, rainfall in Willamina, approximately 7 miles away, is 50. 90 inches.
By contrast, a six-stroke engine may convert more than 50 % of the energy of combustion into useful rotational energy.
By contrast the Chaplain, Matron and nurse received £ 50, £ 16, £ 12 respectively, and each of the two maidservants received a salary of £ 8.
Aside from the film gauge selection — 8 mm ( amateur ), 16 mm ( semi-professional ), 35 mm ( professional ) and 65 mm ( epic photography, rarely used except in special event venues ) — the cinematographer has a selection of stocks in reversal ( which, when developed, create a positive image ) and negative formats along with a wide range of film speeds ( varying sensitivity to light ) from ISO 50 ( slow, least sensitive to light ) to 800 ( very fast, extremely sensitive to light ) and differing response to color ( low saturation, high saturation ) and contrast ( varying levels between pure black ( no exposure ) and pure white ( complete overexposure ).
In contrast, Jackson lost less than 50 men during the fight and reported 154 wounded.
* an injection of contrast media, typically 50 ml ;
In contrast, one suppressor designed for rifles firing the powerful. 50 caliber cartridge is long and in diameter.
In contrast, other findings suggest that speed reading courses which teach techniques that largely constitute skimming of written text result in a lower comprehension rate ( below 50 % comprehension on standardized comprehension tests ) ( Carver 1992 ).
The odds of an adult Yellow Warbler to survive from one year to the next are on average 50 %; in the southern populations, by contrast, about two-thirds of the adults survive each year.
In contrast, a risk averse person presented with these options would accept some amount less than € 50 in preference to the risky option, while a risk seeking person would accept a less than 50 % chance of € 100 in preference to the sure € 50.
By contrast, the 50 plates of the Supplement to the 3rd edition were engraved by D. Lizars.
The doubled vertical and horizontal visual resolution allows to reduce the subpixel density of about 33 %, in order to increase their aperture also of about 33 %, with the same separation distance between subpixels ( for their electronic interconnection ), And also to reduce the power dissipation of about 50 % with a white / black contrast increased of about 50 % and still a visual-pixel resolution enhanced by about 33 % ( i. e. about 125 dpi instead of 96 dpi ), but with only half the total number of subpixels for the same displayed surface.
On CT scan, benign adenomas typically are of low radiographic density ( due to fat content ) and show rapid washout of contrast medium ( 50 % or more of the contrast medium washes out at 10 minutes ).
( In contrast the 1940 Series 50 Super would combine the larger Roadmaster body with the smaller Special engine.
In contrast, 30 – 50 % of children may have a normal urinalysis at the end of 10 years.

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