The contrast between the " careful control against the almost inconceivable perversion of his scheme " and " the ridiculousness of the proposal " create a situation in which the reader has " to consider just what perverted values and assumptions would allow such a diligent, thoughtful, and conventional man to propose so perverse a plan ".

In contrast to many other faiths, Sikhs believe that when all other means to achieve justice are exhausted, then it is just to wield the sword.

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

By contrast, a truth is contingent if it just happens to be the case, for instance, " more than half of the planet is covered by water ".

This is in contrast to normal hulls which just slide over a whale with minimal damage to both.

In contrast, shotshell presses are most often configured for reloading just one gauge of shotshell, e. g., 12 gauge, and are rarely, if ever, reconfigured for reloading other gauges of shotshells, as the cost of buying all new dies, shot bar, and powder bushing as required to switch gauges on a shotshell press often exceeds the cost of buying a new shotshell press outright, as shotshell presses typically come from the factory already setup to reload one gauge or bore of shotshell.

By contrast, the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans has just 302 neurons making it an ideal experimental subject as scientists have been able to map all of the organism's neurons.

In contrast to absolute thermodynamic temperatures, empirical temperatures are measured just by the mechanical properties of bodies, such as their volumes, without reliance on the concepts of energy, entropy or the first, second, or third laws of thermodynamics.

Other states however, make their Prime minister a central and dominant figure within the cabinet system ; Ireland's Taoiseach, for example, alone can decide when to seek a parliamentary dissolution, in contrast to other countries where this is a cabinet decision, with the Prime Minister just one member voting on the suggestion.

In sharp and clear contrast the set just considered is a readily finished, locked infinite set, fixed in itself, containing infinitely many exactly defined elements ( the natural numbers ) none more and none less.

* Contrast medium used to distinguish structures or fluids within a body, often shortened to just " contrast "

For it is a peculiarity of humans, in contrast to the other animals, to have perception of good and bad, just and unjust, and the like ; and the community in these things makes a household or city.

" By contrast, " minus K (- K )... not just ignorance but the active avoidance of knowledge, or even the wish to destroy the capacity for it "-" enacts what ' Attacks on Linking ' identifies as hatred of emotion, hatred of reality, hatred of life itself.

Dependency grammars, in contrast, acknowledge just non-finite verb phrases as constituents.

Many of his epithets however serve a thematic and not just a decorative function, as for instance in Ode 3, where the " bronze-walled court " and " well-built halls " of Croesus ( Ode 3. 30 – 31 and 3. 46 ) contrast architecturally with the " wooden house " of his funeral pyre ( Ode 3. 49 ), in an effect that aims at pathos and which underscores the moral of the ode.

By contrast, a programmer using an interpreter does a lot less waiting, as the interpreter usually just needs to translate the code being worked on to an intermediate representation ( or not translate it at all ), thus requiring much less time before the changes can be tested.

In contrast, pressing just will probably do nothing unless assigned a specific function in a particular program.

From there to the St. Gotthard the divide runs north-east, all the higher summits ( including the Monte Leone, 3, 533 metres, and the Pizzo Rotondo, 3, 192 m ) rising on it, a curious contrast to the long stretch just described.

In contrast with the country at large, where 64 percent of the adults were working, Frazier Park had just 48 percent employed.

During Shemu, the Egyptian farmers would harvest their crops-in clear contrast to the practice of their contemporaries in the ancient world, who would be just beginning to plant their crops at this time of the year.

Yet 183 years ago, Hallowell's inhabitants enjoyed the services of 71 stores along Water Street ( by contrast, Augusta had a population of 1, 000 and just 20 merchants ).

In contrast to peoples in other areas, some local Inuit thought that the burial was more desired by the Christian representatives of the museum, and that the remains could have just as appropriately been kept in New York.

By contrast in the winter the sun does not rise until just before 9am and it is still pitch black at 8am.

The film by contrast, adds a positive ending to the story by hinting that Caroline's love for Gino may be just a passing fancy, with love between herself and Philip being possible.

Other interpretations, sometimes influenced by postmodernism and the concept of commodity fetishism have by contrast emphasized the reification of the powers of technology, said to occur by the separation of technique from the producers, and by falsely imputing human powers to technology as autonomous force, the effect being a perspective of inevitable and unstoppable technological progress operating beyond any human control, and impervious to human choices.

Hysterical realism, also called recherché postmodernism, is a term coined in 2000 by the English critic James Wood in an essay on Zadie Smith's White Teeth to describe what he sees as a literary genre typified by a strong contrast between elaborately absurd prose, plotting, or characterization and careful, detailed investigations of real specific social phenomena.

But none of this has prevented scientists, philosophers, and even historians of science, from speaking of the Ptolemaic system, in contrast to the Copernican.

So much untidiness of mind and household does not attract the interest of the theatergoer ( unless he has been living in a gilded palace, perhaps, and wants a real big heap of contrast ).

In contrast, the largest North American community north of the circle, Sisimiut ( Greenland ), has approximately 5, 000 inhabitants, while between Canada and the USA, Barrow, Alaska is the largest settlement with circa 4, 000 inhabitants.

has no zero in F. By contrast, the fundamental theorem of algebra states that the field of complex numbers is algebraically closed.

In contrast to Newton's vision of wretchedness as his willful sin and distance from God, wretchedness has instead come to mean an obstacle of physical, social, or spiritual nature to overcome in order to achieve a state of grace, happiness, or contentment.

Like Bernini's characteristic works, they often express the Baroque aesthetic of depicting dramatic attitudes and emotional expressions, yet Algardi's sculpture has a restraining sobriety in contrast to those of his rival.

In contrast, it has no effect on the plastids of the higher developed vascular plant Lycopersicon esculentum L. ( tomato ).

This is in contrast to an insertion where a rotation resulting in a balance factor of 0 indicated that the subtree's height has remained unchanged.

By contrast, in an inquisitiorial system, the fact that the defendant has confessed is merely one more fact that is entered into evidence, and a confession by the defendant does not remove the requirement that the prosecution present a full case.

In contrast Clive Ruggles has argued that there are problems with the selection of data in Thom's surveys.

In contrast to the largely alignment-oriented statistically led methods of Green archaeoastronomy, Brown archaeoastronomy has been identified as being closer to the history of astronomy or to cultural history, insofar as it draws on historical and ethnographic records to enrich its understanding of early astronomies and their relations to calendars and ritual.

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.

Among the provinces, British Columbia has been distinguished by its strong liberal views ( in stark contrast to the other provinces west of Ontario ).

) One episode depicted him as having voices in his head, which told him to engage in destructive activities ; however, generally he has a passive demeanor in contrast to Butt-Head's more dominant personality.

" In contrast, she argued that the three-part structure has become " increasingly popular.

By contrast, substance theory explains the compresence of properties by asserting that the properties are found together because it is the substance that has those properties.

By contrast, evidence based on the textual differences between the Septuagint and the Masoretic Text has been used to argue that the context of the MT truly does depict a historical Jeremiah.

In some Bantu languages, historically breathy-voiced stops have been phonetically devoiced, but the four-way contrast in the system has been retained.

In contrast, a submergent coastline is one where the sea level has risen, due to a global sea level change, local subsidence, or isostatic rebound.

By contrast, in civil law jurisdictions ( the legal tradition that prevails in, or is combined with common law in, Europe and most non-Islamic, non-common law countries ), courts lack authority to act where there is no statute, and judicial precedent is given less interpretive weight ( which means that a judge deciding a given case has more freedom to interpret the text of a statute independently, and less predictably ), and scholarly literature is given more.

The contrast between civil law and common law legal systems has become increasingly blurred, with the growing importance of jurisprudence ( similar to case law but not binding ) in civil law countries, and the growing importance of statute law and codes in common law countries.

In contrast, some collectors attempt to obtain a sample from every country that has issued a coin.

The composition of the human body, by contrast, more closely follows the composition of seawater, save that the human body has additional stores of carbon and nitrogen which are necessary to form the proteins and nucleic acids that are characteristic of living organisms.