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contrast and Danes
In contrast, the monasteries were almost exclusively run by Germans and Danes.
In contrast with the Swedes, the Danes of this era did not forward claims to political legitimacy based on assertions that their country was the original homeland of the Goths or that the conquest of the Roman Empire was proof of their own country's military valour and power through history.

contrast and preferred
They preferred the briefer style associated with elegy in contrast to the lengthier epic forms, and made it the singular medium for short epigrams.
Justin may have preferred the designation " memoirs of the apostles " as a contrast to the " gospel " of his contemporary Marcion to emphasize the connections between the historical testimony of the gospels and the Old Testament prophecies which Marcion rejected.
They use this assertion to support their claim that modern science is atheistic, and contrast it with their preferred approach of a revived natural philosophy which welcomes supernatural explanations for natural phenomena and supports theistic science.
Raeder by contrast preferred to focus on defeating Britain before turning east.
Although the King of England, Henry VI, was the head of the House of Lancaster, his wife, Margaret of Anjou, was a niece of Burgundy's bitter enemy, Charles VII of France, and was herself an enemy of the Burgundians ; the Duke of York, by contrast, shared Burgundy's enmity towards the French, and preferred the Burgundians.
Also, while the terms " symphonic poem " and " tone poem " have often been used interchangeably, some composers such as Richard Strauss and Jean Sibelius have preferred the latter term for pieces that were less symphonic in design and in which there is no special emphasis on thematic or tonal contrast.
In contrast, FLAC has only open source licenses, so it comes pre-installed with most Linux distributions, is preferred by Linux users, and enjoys broad support in applications.
In contrast to his friend Narai, however, who received ambassadors with great pomp, wore splendid and elaborate vestments and enjoyed the use of the finest foreign luxuries — velvets and rich Persian carpets, Sourigna Vongsa wore no crowns, and preferred sitting on reed mats.
Despite the TF Cortina introducing worthwhile improvements in ride, handling, noise reduction and fuel consumption, the Cortina generally was seen by the motoring press as outdated, and buyers generally preferred the rival products — in marked contrast to New Zealand where the Cortina was a highly regarded success.
* Charles Blattberg has written two books defending an approach to politics that emphasizes conversation, in contrast to negotiation, as the preferred means of resolving conflict.
This effort failed because Albertans, confronted by the contrast between the fiery, charismatic Aberhart and the aloof, technocratic Douglas, preferred the former.
In contrast to his predecessor, who was actively involved in most elements of his government, Getty preferred to set the government's broad direction and leave lower-level details to his ministers.
In contrast to Cameron, who preferred to operate on the coast, Chute embarked on a series of aggressive forest operations, following Māori into their strongholds and storming pā.
In contrast to many other boys who preferred to play baseball, he was drawn to basketball because it was " a poor kids ' game.
By contrast, Pictish succession often used links through females ( maternal grandson was apparently preferred heir to grandfather ; and / or maternal nephew to uncle in Pictish custom ).
The season also marked a turning point in his batting approach where he preferred to score more slowly and take fewer risks, in contrast to his adventurous pre-war tactics.
( By contrast, most engineers in China at this time were not the " hands on " type ; instead, theoretical studies were preferred.
Because in the U. S. dividends on preferred stock are not tax-deductible at the corporate level ( in contrast to interest expense ), the effective cost of capital raised by preferred stock is 35 percent greater than issuing the equivalent amount of debt at the same interest rate.
In contrast to Persian poets who had preferred the ghazal for poetic expression, Punjabi Sufi poets tended to compose in the Kafi ..
Most of Festa's madrigals are for three voices, in contrast to the other early madrigalists: for example Verdelot preferred five or six voices, while Sebastiano Festa only wrote for four.
She preferred painting of reduced tone and subtle colour relationships, in contrast to her brother's far more vivid palette.
Graeme Lee and the Christian Democrats, by contrast, preferred to make their party " values-based ", saying that anyone who shared the basic Christian moral outlook ( whether actually Christian or not ) should be able to participate.
The concrete surface of the platforms is smooth, in contrast to the rough bush-hammered finish preferred elsewhere on the IRT Dual System stations.

contrast and choose
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.
The quilter may choose to emphasize these designs by using threads that are multicolored or metallic, or that contrast highly to the fabric.
In contrast to other types, the Shia believe that only God has the right to choose a representative to safeguard Islam, the Quran and sharia.
In contrast, in New Jersey both are regulated by the State Board of Cosmetology and there is no longer a legal difference in barbers and cosmetologists, as they are issued the same license and can practice both the art of straight razor shaving, colouring, other chemical work and haircutting if they choose.
In contrast, some educational establishments such as Sudbury schools believe that students are personally responsible for their acts, and that traditional schools do not permit students to choose their course of action fully ; they do not permit students to embark on the course, once chosen ; and they do not permit students to suffer the consequences of the course, once taken.
By contrast, those who choose downtown living tend to see it as more of a community, but must pay careful attention to their tolerances ( for smog, noise pollution, crime, taxation, etc .).
The president can choose whomever he wants — this is in contrast with parliamentary systems in which the head of state has to appoint the leader of the largest party in the legislature — and in fact, only a handful of prime ministers were the leader of their own party upon taking office.
Shimizu was at the same time perfectly willing to show his ghosts onscreen, in contrast to some directors who might choose only to hint at their appearance.
By contrast, a researcher who seeks full contextual understanding of an individuals ' social actions may choose ethnographic participant observation or open-ended interviews.
In contrast, if there were no labor market disequilibrium, individuals would simultaneously choose both their quantity of labor to supply and the quantity of goods to purchase, and the latter would be their notional demand for goods.
Also in contrast to its predecessor, when gaining new levels Heroes can no longer choose new skills from a list of all available skills ; instead, the player is forced to choose one of three offered skills, depending on the Hero's class.
However, in contrast to the Remote evaluation and Code on demand programming paradigms, mobile agents are active in that they can choose to migrate between computers at any time during their execution.
Starting Avernum 2 player may choose to have Nephilim and Slithzerikai characters in the party, in contrast to the original Avernum that allowed only human characters.
In contrast, bioethicist Jacob Appel of New York University has argued that governments should pay couples to choose to have female children.
This is in contrast to a free house, which is able to choose the beers it stocks freely.
In contrast, the much greater destructive radius of the Mills bomb than its throwing range forced users to choose their throwing point carefully, in order to ensure that they would not be wounded by their own grenade.
In the Prisoner's Dilemma, in contrast, despite the fact that both players cooperating is Pareto efficient, the only Nash equilibrium is when both players choose to defect.
In contrast, God created jinn with free will and they may choose to obey Him or not, similar to the case of the human being.
In 2011, a commentator seeing Germany forced perhaps to choose between monetary stability, on the one hand, and the EMU, recalled by way of contrast Waigel's statement at the founding, “ We are bringing the d-mark into Europe .”
In contrast, each provider may submit their model output in a resolution they choose.
According to Barbara Lewalski, Il Penseroso, along with L ' Allegro, " explore and contrast in generic terms the ideal pleasures appropriate to contrasting lifestyles ... that a poet might choose, or might choose at different times, or in sequence ".

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