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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.
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( In contrast, the Greek historian Ctesias refers to a similar father-in-law / general figure named Onaphas.
By contrast, if the same historian had made the same claim five times in five different places ( and no other types of evidence were available ), the claim is much weaker because it originates from a single source.
This was necessary so that there would be a legal bench mark with which to compare and contrast the scholarship of an objective historian against the methods employed by David Irving, as before the Irving v Penguin Books and Lipstadt trial there was no legal precedent for what constituted an objective historian.
In contrast to Vincent, historian William Chester Jordan concludes that the pair were a " companionable couple " who had a successful marriage by the standards of the day.
The Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt ( 1818 – 1897 ) in his Die Cultur der Renaissance in Italien ( 1860 ), by contrast, defined the Renaissance as the period between Giotto and Michelangelo in Italy, that is, the 14th to mid-16th centuries.
British historian Isaac Deutscher, in his biography of Trotsky, says that on being faced with the evidence " only the blind and the deaf could be unaware of the contrast between Stalinism and Leninism ".
" In contrast, historian Jack Rakove suggests that Madison's intention in framing the Second Amendment was to provide assurances to moderate Anti-Federalists that the militias would not be disarmed.
In contrast, the noted historian of the 11th century H. E. J.
By contrast, a recent historian and author, Richard Bisgrove, described Brown's process as perfecting nature by
In contrast, the historian Seán Duffy has argued that the native Irish nobility were just as resistant to the king as the Anglo-Norman barons.
Draper's political choices, both then and later, were in contrast to those made by his brother Theodore ( Ted ) Draper, a fellow traveler of the Communist Party in the 1930s who would later be disillusioned with Communism and become a prominent historian.
In contrast, Maori art historian Jonathan Mane-Wheoki described Pākehā as "... the people who define themselves by what they are not.
** In contrast, the conservative popular historian Paul Johnson in A History of the Modern World from 1917 to the 1980s ( 1983 ) was highly critical of his judgment.
Military historian Max Hastings :" In contrast to almost every other outstanding commander of the war, Slim was a disarmingly normal human being, possessed of notable self-knowledge.
On the other hand, historian Birgir Solvason states that Icelandic society was " more peaceful and cooperative than its contemporaries "; in England and Norway, by contrast, " the period from about 800 to 1200 is a period of continuous struggle ; high in both violence and killings.
This violence continued as when Muhammad of Ghor attacked the city and drove out the remaining Ismailis whom he deemed to be heretics, in stark contrast to his predecessor, the Ghurid Sultan ' Ala ' al-Din who welcomed numerous envoys from the Ismaili state of Alamut and according to the historian Juzjani, gave them " great reverence "
However, historian Kenneth R. Bartlett notes that, in contrast to his Renaissance-era successors, " his reliance on such elements as Divine Providence links Villani closely with the medieval vernacular chronicle tradition.
By contrast, the Swiss historian Philippe Burrin argues that such a decision was not made before August 1941 at the earliest, pointing to orders given by Himmler on July 30, 1941 to the 2nd SS Cavalry Regiment and the SS Cavalry Brigade operating in the Pripet Marshes in the Pripyat operation calling for the murder of male Jews only while the Jewish women and children were to be driven into the Marshes.
Remarking on the contrast between the dying figures in the foreground and the figures in the mid-ground waving towards the approaching rescue ship, the French art historian Georges-Antoine Borias wrote that Géricault's painting represents, " on the one hand, desolation and death.
Critics of Goerdeler such as the American political scientist Daniel Goldhagen have asserted that, because Goerdeler published a list of " non-Aryan " physicians to be excluded from practicing under public insurance, Goerdeler was an anti-Semite ; by contrast, Goerdeler's defenders like the Canadian historian Peter Hoffmann have argued that Goerdeler's insistence on enforcing the laws served to protect those Jewish physicians entitled to practice.
By contrast, the Canadian historian Peter Hoffmann in his 2004 essay " The German Resistance and the Holocaust " has contended that Goerdeler was opposed to anti-Semitism in all forms, and that this opposition played a major role in motivating his efforts to overthrow the Nazi regime.
It will be a worthy theme for a historian of science of the twenty-first century to compare and contrast these two great men of science.
Ohio historian Walter Havighurst described Brough as being " a big bull of a man with driving energy ," and Richard H. Abbott wrote that he " had a reputation for rough and ready politics with a temperament to match ... was a blunt, outspoken, rude man who loved to chew tobacco thus presented quite a contrast with his two handsome and dignified predecessors, William Dennison and David Tod.
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The mountain is a popular destination attracting an estimated 100, 000 ascents a year, " Ben Nevis " 80 /- organic ale is, by contrast, brewed in Bridge of Allan near Stirling.
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:
The starkness of this contrast is evidenced by the many hills and mountains of the lower Highlands such as Ben Vorlich and Ben Ledi which can be seen to the northwest of the city.
In contrast to these criticisms, Harris received support from a number of humanist and atheist figures, including Ben Goldacre, Simon Singh and Dave Gorman.
In a sharp contrast, the 1982 St. Louis Cardinals only hit 67 home runs, fewer than Gorman Thomas ' 39 and Ben Oglivie's 34 combined.
*" Weer Pixeez " ( HP and Sanderson: performed by Method Man and Redman, in contrast to HP and Sanderson's simultaneous voiceover work by Ben Stein )
Johnny the human Torch is impulsive, quick to anger with a brash personality, contrast this to Ben the Thing who is more sullen, dependable and strong.
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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, 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 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.
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