In contrast, most Christian denominations actively seek converts, following the Great Commission, and conversion to Christianity is generally a declaration of faith ( although some denominations view it specifically as adoption into a community of Christ, and orthodox Christian tradition views it as being a literal joining together of the members of Christ's body ).

The group argued that the Oslo negotiations were undemocratic, excluded the PLO from decision-making and deprived the Palestinians of their legitimate rights, but in contrast to most other Alliance members they did not oppose a two-state solution as such.

Although he made no pretence regarding the significance of the Senate under his absolute rule, those senators he deemed unworthy were expelled from the Senate, and in the distribution of public offices he rarely favoured family members ; a policy which stood in contrast to the nepotism practiced by Vespasian and Titus.

The double bass is generally tuned in fourths, in contrast to other members of the orchestral string family, which are tuned in fifths.

In contrast to other branches of Christianity, Mormon theology considers God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit to be three separate gods united in will and purpose, ( see social trinitarianism ) as opposed to the orthodox view of three hypostases sharing in one Divine nature or essence ( ousia ), with the three members of the Godhead co-eternal and co-equal, together adored ( worshiped, given latria ) and glorified.

In the United States, by contrast, although it is historically aligned with the Democratic Party, the union movement is by no means monolithic on that point ; this is especially true among the individual " rank and file " members.

As all such prior NSFK members were also Nazi Party members ; this gave the new Luftwaffe a strong Nazi ideological base in contrast to the other branches of the German military.

In the United States, the United Methodist Church is the second-largest sponsor of Boy Scout units, with 11078 chartered units, representing over 370, 000 youth members ; by way of contrast, the Mormon Church, which sponsors a total of 37, 882 units-over three times as many-can boast a total youth membership of slightly over 420, 000, only a 13. 5 % increase over the UMC's total.

In contrast to the Prussian-oriented periodicals, in the late 19th century such newspapers as Przyjaciel Ludu Łecki and Mazur were founded by members of the Warsaw-based Komitet Centralny dla Slaska, Kaszub i Mazur ( Central Committee for Silesia, Kashubia and Masuria ), influenced by Polish politicians like Antoni Osuchowski or Juliusz Bursche, to strengthen a Polish identity in Masuria.

In contrast to the KKK, they were open, members were often well known in the communities, and they directed their efforts at political aims: using force, intimidation and violence, including murder, to push out Republican officeholders, break up organizing, and suppress freedmen's voting and civil rights.

In contrast, the more massive globular clusters of stars exert a stronger gravitational attraction on their members, and can survive for many billions of years.

* Plenum ( meeting ), a meeting of a deliberative assembly in which all members are present ; contrast with quorum

In contrast, private cartels entail an agreement on terms and conditions that provide members mutual advantage, but that are not known or likely to be detected by outside parties.

Her cults may represent the religiously legitimate charm and seduction of the divine by mortals, in contrast to the formal, contractual relations between most members of Rome's official pantheon and the state, and the unofficial, illicit manipulation of divine forces through magic.

Politically, Bloomsbury held mainly left-liberal stances ( opposed to militarism, for example ); but its " clubs and meetings were not activist, like the political organizations to which many of Bloomsbury's members also belonged ", and they would be criticised for that by their 1930s successors, who by contrast were " heavily touched by the politics which Bloomsbury had rejected ".

The group members behave passively, and act as though the leader, by contrast, is omnipotent and omniscient.

In contrast, the game in Ghana, which is also commonly played in the evenings, insults are frequently directed at family members.

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, those groups that expressed pride by humbly focusing on members ' efforts and hard work tended to have high social standing in both the public and personal eyes.

Sportswriters and commentators are elected as full-fledged members ( in contrast to the Baseball Hall of Fame that places them in separate wings that are not considered in the " real " Hall of Fame ).

In contrast to its structure elsewhere, the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland was centered, not around the bishops of diocese and archbishops of archdiocese, but rather around monasteries headed by powerful abbots who were members of the royal dynasties of the lands in which their monasteries resided.

In contrast, many extremist members of the Résistance, such as Gabriel Jeantet and Jacques Le Roy Ladurie, never renounced their tolerant attitudes towards Vichy.

In contrast, members do have a clan name, which is important in their lives although not included in the member's name.

In contrast to talk radio stations in the United States, where syndicated programs tend to make up a significant part of most schedules, privately owned Canadian talk radio stations tend to be predominantly local in programming and focus.

In contrast, most of the eastern shores ( the Quebec portion ) form the western edge of the Canadian Shield in Quebec.

Moodie and Parr Traill's sister, Agnes Strickland, remained in England and wrote elegant royal biographies, creating a stark contrast between Canadian and English literatures.

The Arctic and Hudson Bay Lowlands comprise a substantial part of the geographic region often considered part of the Canadian Shield ( in contrast to the sole geological area ).

In contrast, a Canadian university is comparable to an American university.

Canada first fielded a corps-sized formation in the First World War ; the Canadian Corps was unique in that its composition did not change from inception to the war's end, in contrast to British corps in France and Flanders.

The Liberals ’ final television advertisement, according to Stephen Clarkson's The Big Red Machine, “ emphasized the contrast between Liberals and the Canadian Alliance while warning voters about leader Joe Clark ’ s claim that he would form a coalition with the Bloc Québécois in a minority government.

In contrast with the US " straight rye whiskey " counterpart, a minimum of 3 years of small ( 700l /~ 185USG or less ) wooden barrel aging is required for the " Canadian Whisky ", " Canadian Rye Whisky " and " Rye Whisky " labels, although they need not be new oak, nor charred.

In contrast, Creighton saw William Lyon Mackenzie King as a weak and indecisive figure who was more concerned with safeguarding the electoral fortunes of the Liberals then winning the war, and who kept Canadian troops out of combat as long as possible to avoid making difficult decisions on conscription.

In contrast, in most other Canadian provinces, convenience stores are not permitted to sell alcoholic beverages at all, and in some cases the sales of beer, wines and spirits are divided between different specialty provincial chains, such as The Beer Store ( Brewers Retail ) and the LCBO in Ontario.

However " the prairies " may also refer to all of the Interior Plains region within Canada, in contrast with the Rocky Mountains and Canadian Shield, and is a continuation of the Great Plains region of the United States.

# English Canadian, in some historical contexts, refers to Canadians who have origins in England ( in contrast to Scottish Canadians, Irish Canadians etc.

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.

In contrast, Canadian cities more commonly host junior ice hockey teams, which operate at a semi-professional level and develop teenage prospects prior to their move to the professional leagues.

In contrast, a low-ranked U. S ./ Canadian team's final games serve little purpose, and in fact losing may be beneficial to such teams, yielding a better position in the next year's draft.

This is in contrast to the US AN / SPY-1 system ( as used on the Ticonderoga class cruiser and Arleigh Burke class destroyer ) or the Dutch / German / Canadian APAR system ( as used on the Royal Dutch Navy's De Zeven Provinciën class frigates, the German Navy's Sachsen class frigates, and the Royal Danish Navy's Ivar Huitfeldt class frigates ), which use multiple arrays fixed in place to provide continuous coverage of the entire sky.

As Earle ( 1998 ) finds, Newfoundland girls married American personnel by the thousands, " the Yanks ' jaunty manner and easy social ways making an often stark contrast to the Canadian servicemen who at this time began to coin the epithet ' Newfie.

In contrast, pay equity, in the Canadian context, means that male-dominated occupations and female-dominated occupations of comparable value must be paid the same if within the same employer.

By contrast, while The Trouble with Tracy at least represented a sincere attempt on CTV's part, many Canadian radio stations during the same era were responding to the new Canadian content regulations by burying Canadian music in obscure time slots known as " beaver hours ".

The idea that some Indigenous American and Canadian peoples engage the Medicine Wheel and associated rites to demonstrate the periodicity and cyclicality of Nature, change, life and lifecycles, interdependence, relationships and the Mysterium Magnum of the Earth and the Universe, amongst other teachings, is one of the Western interpretations making American First Nations the " Other ", supposedly more spiritual, to contrast with supposedly less spiritual " Us ".