The Communist government also attempted to improve the treatment of Manchu people ; some Manchu people who had hidden their ancestry during the period of KMT rule thus became more comfortable to reveal their ancestry, such as the writer Lao She, who began to include Manchu characters in his fictional works in the 1950s ( in contrast to his earlier works which had none ).

By contrast, keeping the 3 / 4 legislative vote requirement would mean that any constitutional amendment would require a consensus among both the pan-green coalition and pan-blue coalition to be considered.

Political scientists have called the resulting new coalition the " Fifth Party System " in contrast to the Fourth Party System of the 1896-1932 era that it replaced.

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.

The coalition went into the 1935 election under the title of the " National Political Federation ", a name adopted to indicate that the grouping intended to represent New Zealanders from all backgrounds ( in contrast to the previous situation, where United served city-dwellers and Reform served farmers ).

Furthermore, many believe that Vázquez's opposition to legalising abortion and threats to veto any pro-choice legislation passed by the government-a position that stands in contrast with the opinions of both the majority of his governing coalition and the majority of Uruguayans-have made a modest dent in his public support.

" By contrast, the “ populist ” coalition of Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao advocates more balanced economic development and improvements to China ’ s social safety net.

In contrast with the other three former presidents, Zinsou admitted that he had been defeated and decided participate in bargaining, explaining that he rejected the idea of a coalition " for personal reasons ".

Many Peshmerga are fluent in Arabic, in contrast to foreign coalition troops, and they therefore played an important role in the Sunni triangle of Central Iraq.

In contrast with the other three former presidents, Zinsou admitted that he had been defeated and decided participate in bargaining, explaining that he rejected the idea of a coalition " for personal reasons ".

In contrast, coalition air interdiction efforts in the Gulf War ( 1991 ) were extremely successful in isolating front-line Iraqi units from their bases in the rear.

In English, for example, the use of who vs. which agrees with the animacy of the head noun, but there is no case agreement except in the formal English contrast who vs. whom ( which is often used incorrectly, if at all, in speech ).

By contrast the American, Morris Zapp, is a top-ranking American professor who only agrees to go to Rummidge because his wife agrees to postpone long-threatened divorce proceedings on condition that he move out of the marital home for six months.

In contrast, when the participle is used as an adjective, it agrees in gender and number with the noun modified.

Norris agrees to the tour but in contrast to Mary's excitement, he seems nervous and at times even reluctant about the enterprise.

Though principally about the universe, De sphaera contains a clear description of the Earth as a sphere which agrees with widespread opinion in Europe during the higher Middle Ages, in contrast to statements of some 19th-and 20th-century historians that medieval scholars thought the Earth was flat.

In contrast, a Democratic Republic of the Congo government document shows that, also in 2005, the network of main highways in good condition was as follows:

Macedonian, although mutually intelligible with Bulgarian, certain dialects of Serbian and to a lesser extent the rest of the South Slavic dialect continuum is considered by Bulgarian linguists to be a Bulgarian dialect, in contrast with the contemporary international view, and the view in the Republic of Macedonia which regards it as a language in its own right.

In many common law jurisdictions ( e. g. the Republic of Ireland, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Australia, New Zealand ), an indictable offence is an offence which can only be tried on an indictment after a preliminary hearing to determine whether there is a prima facie case to answer or by a grand jury ( in contrast to a summary offence ).

The highly decentralized and democratic nature of the proposed De Leonist government is in contrast to the democratic centralism of Marxism – Leninism and what they see as the dictatorial nature of the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China and other " communist " states.

This is in contrast to acting presidents from the Third Republic.

The Saarland's reunification with the Federal Republic of Germany was sometimes referred to as the Kleine Wiedervereinigung (" little reunification ", in contrast with the post-Cold War absorption of the GDR ).

In contrast, other state roads, managed by the Road Directorate of the Republic of Slovenia, have been rapidly deteriorating due to neglection and the overall increase in traffic.

This vision clashes with an older interpretation of the First Republic as a progressive and increasingly democratic regime that presented a clear contrast to Salazar ’ s ensuing dictatorship.

" The novel is also notable for a number of incidental descriptions of other cults or groups, such as the Reformed Distributed Republic, which in contrast to the more elaborate " phyles " impose a minimal social protocol.

In Isocrates ' rhetorical use of a theme that he considers unworthy of serious treatment, the villainous king of Egypt named Busiris, a son of Poseidon and Anippe, daughter of the river-god Nilus, was the ancient founder of Egyptian civilization, with an imagined " model constitution " that Isocrates sets up as a parodic contrast to the Republic by Plato.

By contrast, much of the recent political discourse on individual rights in the People's Republic of China, particularly with respect to due process rights and rule of law, has focused on how protection of individual rights actually makes social control by the government more effective.

In contrast with his former position, Cassius negotiated a league with the Latins, thereby removing one source of danger to the fledgeling Republic.

In contrast, the Oireachtas ( parliament ) of the Republic of Ireland rarely passes private members ' bills, with the overwhelming number of bills being passed being introduced by members of the cabinet.

Iran's Islamic republic is in contrast to the semi-secular state of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, where Islamic laws are technically considered to override laws of the state, though in reality their relative hierarchy is ambiguous.

In contrast to other countries in which stare decisis gives the power of both final interpretation and adjudication to a supreme court, within the People's Republic of China constitutional and legal interpretation is considered to be a legislative activity rather than a judicial one, and the functions are split so that the NPCSC provides legal interpretations while the Supreme People's Court and the Courts of Final Appeal of Hong Kong and Macau actually decide cases.

However Sidney regarded the Republic as vigorously pursuing England's national interests ( in contrast to the Stuart's record of military failure ), writing in his Discourses Concerning Government:

This resolution was in sharp contrast to the manner in which the United Nations dealt with the claim of the federation of Serbia and Montenegro to be recognised as the continuation of the state of Yugoslavia ( albeit as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as opposed to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ).

* Free area of the Republic of China, a term used by the ROC government to contrast itself with the People's Republic of China and avoid acknowledging their control over mainland China ; often shortened to " Free China " and used in contrast to " Red China "

By contrast, the Republic of China government translated it as " Zhonghua Taipei " ( traditional chinese: 中華台北 or 中華臺北, Hanyu Pinyin: Zhōnghuá Táiběi ) in Chinese, which references the term " China " as the cultural or ethnic entity, rather than the state.

Later, the Negros Occidental area under the leadership of Gen. Araneta only, in contrast to the Negros Oriental area under the leadership of Don Diego de la Viña, formed the Cantonal Republic of Negros, a separate government from the more familiar Malolos Republic established in Luzon.

Korean nationalists have virulently reacted against China's application to UNESCO of Goguryeo tombs in Chinese territory: the absolute independence of Goguryeo is a central aspect of Korean identity, because according to Korean legend, it was comparatively independent from China and Japan, in contrast to subordinate states like the Joseon Dynasty and the Korean Empire.

By contrast, the Ming dynasty in China began once more to practice privatization, especially with regards to their manufacturing industries.

By contrast, most Chinatowns in the past were solely inhabited by Chinese from southeastern China.

In addition, local dialects employ derivations of the Malay word then in use for ' silver ', in contrast to the term used in wider Melanesian society, which has etymological roots in Chinese, a consequence of the regional trade with China that was developed in the 6th and 7th centuries.

Today, China proper is a controversial concept in China itself, since the current official paradigm does not contrast the core and the periphery of China.

There is no fixed extent for China proper, as it is used to express the contrast between the core and frontier regions of China from multiple perspectives: historical, administrative, cultural, and linguistic.

In contrast, the pro-Taiwan independence Democratic Progressive Party use the term " China ", referring to the PRC, to imply that Taiwan is separate from China.

" In China the practice represented an indigenous spiritual and moral tradition, a cultural revitalization movement, and drew a sharp contrast to " Marxism with Chinese characteristics ".

In contrast, the Empress of China was often identified with the Fenghuang.

Buddhism is also the context of all large portrait sculpture ; in total contrast to some other areas in medieval China even painted images of the emperor were regarded as private.

As a result, the spoken language is relatively uniform in contrast to the plethora of languages and dialects in southern China.

By contrast, the ROC desired good relations with overseas Chinese as part of an overall strategy to avoid diplomatic isolation and maintain its claim to be the sole legitimate government of China.

By contrast, many of the Chinese characters currently in use in Japan ( kanji ) and Mainland China have been simplified, and contain fewer strokes than the corresponding hanja characters.

Most of eastern China was ravaged by the Second Sino-Japanese War the Chinese Civil War, by contrast, Qinghai was relatively untouched.

In contrast, in China and those areas to which Chinese cultural influence spread, the depiction of Budai ( who lived during the 10th c. CE ) is consistently short and round.

Some orientalists praised the religious tolerance of Islamic countries in contrast with the Christian West, or the status of scholarship in Mandarin China.