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.

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.

The architecture of the new house is considered to be somewhat dated for its time, being similar in style to the demolished castle of the 1830s, in contrast to the richer forms of Scots Baronial being developed by William Burn and others during the 1850s.

Provisional IRA activity also increased across Northern Ireland with thirty British soldiers being killed in the remaining months of 1971, in contrast to the ten soldiers killed during the pre-internment period of the year.

By contrast, the Soviet Union's transition was much more problematic and its successor republics faced a sharp decline in GDP during the early 1990s.

An infection that does not and will not produce clinically evident impairment of normal functioning, such as the presence of the normal bacteria and yeasts in the gut, is not considered a disease ; by contrast, an infection that is asymptomatic during its incubation period, but expected to produce symptoms later, is usually considered a disease.

By contrast, in January 2001, just three dot-coms bought advertising spots during Super Bowl XXXV.

In contrast, the White Nile provides only 10 % of the Nile's waters during the high-water season but contributes more than 80 % during the low-water period.

By contrast, the Gemini capsule's avionics were designed so the cabin could be exposed to the vacuum of space when one of two large hatches was opened, so no airlock was required, and both the spacewalking astronaut and his companion command pilot were in vacuum during the EVA.

By contrast, the U. S. admitted more than 100, 000 Vietnamese refugees for resettlement during the Vietnam War.

In contrast to the Northern Italian language, southern Italian dialects and languages were largely untouched by the Franco-Occitan influences introduced to Italy, mainly by bards from France, during the Middle Ages but, after the Norman conquest of southern Italy, Sicily became the first Italian land to adopt Occitan lyric moods ( and words ) in poetry.

Europe has however seen a decline in premium income during the year in contrast to the growth seen in North America and Asia.

In contrast, paracetamol ( acetaminophen ) is regarded as being safe and well-tolerated during pregnancy, but Leffers et al released a study in 2010 indicating that there may be associated male infertility in the unborn.

Most forms of stud poker, in contrast, are open games, because some players ' cards are dealt face up or are exposed during play ( blind stud games are an exception ).

Greater latitude was given to managers of state-owned factories, while capital was made available to them through a reformed banking system and through fiscal policies ( in contrast to the fiscal anarchy and fall in revenue experienced by the Soviet government during perestroika ).

In contrast, lost lands are islands or continents believed by some to have existed during prehistory, often associated with ancient myths and legends ; and vanishing islands are islands that are submerged during high tide.

In contrast, a critic in the humanities can choose to adopt an array of stances ( e. g., Marxist criticism, Freudian criticism, Deconstruction, 19th-century-style literary criticism ), which may be more or less fashionable during any given period but which are all regarded as legitimate.

By contrast, the Indianapolis Colts — among the most successful franchises in any sport during the 2000s with quarterback Peyton Manning — had a 2-14 record in 2011 because of injuries that prevented Manning from playing.

This stands in sharp contrast to the 1980s, before the fall of the Soviet Union, when Sweden could gather up to 800, 000 men when total mobilization had been declared ; but the importance placed on defensive spending during the Cold War is perhaps best reflected by the fact that Sweden in the late 1950s ran the world's fourth-largest air force.

There was a striking contrast with Japan, where Edo ( Tokyo ) had as many as 1 million inhabitants and the urban population comprised as much as 10 % to 15 % of the total during the Tokugawa Period ( 1600 – 1868 ).

In contrast, psychogenic nonepileptic seizures are rare between midnight and 6 a m. and never occur during sleep.

Finally, the rabbis claimed for the Hebrew language a divine authority, in contrast to Aramaic or Greek-even though these languages were the lingua franca of Jews during this period ( and Aramaic would eventually be given the same holy language status as Hebrew ).

Its unique relief carvings have a naive dynamic quality that contrast with the rigidity of the figures typical of some other periods.

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, in many modern jazz styles within smaller, the guitarist plays much more sparsely, intermingling periodic chords and delicate voicings into pauses in the melody or solo, and using periods of silence.

Uniformitarianism was originally proposed in contrast to catastrophism, which states that the distant past " consisted of epochs of paroxysmal and catastrophic action interposed between periods of comparative tranquility " Especially in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, most geologists took this interpretation to mean that catastrophic events are not important in geologic time ; one example of this is the debate of the formation of the Channeled Scablands due to the catastrophic Missoula glacial outburst floods.

In contrast, bodies found in shaded areas will be cooler, and insects will require longer growth periods.

In contrast to the gaps found in settlement periods in the neighbouring Negev Highlands and Sinai, these sites show continuous settlement for the past 10, 000 years.

" In contrast with the extensive family tombs of later periods, these are for single or double burials, with only one of the seven having room for three bodies.

In temperate latitudes, the temperature contrast is greatly seasonably variable, creating periods of strong upwelling in the spring and summer, to weak or no upwelling in the winter.

The label employs traditional light-versus-darkness imagery to contrast the " darkness " of the period with earlier and later periods of " light ".

Her case was reported in detail by Dr. Edmundo Escomel in the medical journal La Presse Médicale, including the additional details that her menarche had occurred at eight months of age, in contrast to a past report stating that she had been having regular periods since she was three years old ( or 2½ according to a different article ).

A strength of observation and interaction over extended periods of time is that researchers can discover discrepancies between what participants say — and often believe — should happen ( the formal system ) and what actually does happen, or between different aspects of the formal system ; in contrast, a one-time survey of people's answers to a set of questions might be quite consistent, but is less likely to show conflicts between different aspects of the social system or between conscious representations and behavior.

In dry years, the Lachlan can have periods of zero flow of over a year ( for example from April 1944 to April 1945 ), which is a complete contrast to the Murray and Murrumbidgee which have not been known to cease to flow since European settlement.

In contrast, anovulation usually manifests itself as irregularity of menstrual periods, that is, unpredictable variability of intervals, duration, or bleeding.

In contrast, aerobic exercise includes lower intensity activities performed for longer periods of time.

Tics are usually suppressible for brief periods ; in contrast, children rarely consciously attempt to control a stereotypy, although they can be distracted from one.

In contrast to glacial periods, these pollen zones are being used to apply globally, with but few exceptions.

In contrast, the interest in Lux declined in later periods.

Günther Bornkamm was a proponent of the Second Quest for the Historical Jesus ( Albert Schweitzer ) and suggested a tighter relationship between Jesus and the theology of the early church ( in contrast to the ' First ' and ' No Quest ' periods ending in 1953 ).

In contrast, PC enzyme levels in the liver are decreased by insulin ; during periods of overnutrition adipocyte tissue is expanded with extreme expression of PC and other lipogenic enzymes.

In contrast, infradian rhythms, such as the human menstrual cycle, have periods longer than a day.

As a result, pain does not usually subside rapidly but persists for long periods of time ; in contrast, one quickly stops receiving touch or sensory information if surroundings remain constant.