In contrast to the Reds ' and Cardinals ' bad luck, the Kansas City Royals made the postseason despite owning the fourth-best full-season record in their division and posting a losing record overall ( 50 – 53 ).

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 ).

After Bennett's death his son took over the company, and the posters were replaced with pictures of the son ( who looked imposing and stern in contrast to his father's kindly demeanour ) with the text " Let me be your big brother.

In contrast, prusten and roaring are found only in big cats.

In addition, humanitarian intervention by multinational forces became more frequent and the media began to play a big role, particularly in the lead up to the 1999 NATO mission in Yugoslavia, while by contrast, the 1994 Rwandan Genocide had little attention.

By contrast, the big cats can roar but cannot purr, except while exhaling.

In contrast to jazz " combos ," in which musical performances are largely improvised, big band music is primarily crafted in advance by an arranger.

" In the Big Sleep Chandler expands this description of the room and uses this new detail ( e. g., the contrast of white and " bled out ", the coming rain ) to foreshadow the fact that Mrs. Regan ( who was Mrs. O ' Mara in the original story ) is covering up the murder of her husband by her sister and that the coming rain storm will bring more deaths: " The room was too big, the ceiling was too high, the doors were too tall, and the white carpet that went from wall to wall looked like a fresh fall of snow at Lake Arrowhead.

HOT has put a big emphasis on encouraging production of local Israeli movies, while YES, in contrast, puts more emphasis on purchasing foreign TV series and movies.

: In contrast to the racemic compound or conglomerate, there is no big difference in affinity between the same and opposite enantiomers.

To hear Mr. al-Arian's family and supporters describe the plea agreement, you might think the defendant been exonerated .... By contrast, the Justice Department described the deal as if it were a big win in the war on terrorism ....

") His cartoons hinged on the contrast between the presented situation, the dignity displayed by his typically big nosed characters and the picture's caption.

Great thinkers, in contrast, boldly and creatively address big problems.

In contrast to the big walls of Yosemite Valley, climbing at Tuolumne generally consists of short-to medium-length routes on eleven major domes and a number of minor ones, stretching from the Stately Pleasure Dome above Tenaya Lake to Lembert Dome on the east side of the Meadows.

Famously, Samuel Johnson claimed that A Tale of a Tub was a work of true genius ( in contrast to Gulliver's Travels where once one imagines " big people and little people " the rest is easy ) and too good to be Jonathan Swift's.

This announcement has been described as the policy of " speaking softly but carrying a big stick ", and consequently launched a period of " big stick " diplomacy, in contrast with later Dollar Diplomacy.

According to contemporary musician, Dave Warner, " hey had a clean-cut boys-next door image ; a big contrast to the bad boy, weirdo, heavy-riff persona favoured by their peers ".

By the contrast, the websites basing on narrowband, including Sina. com, will face a big challenge.

In Poland it is called Maluch, which literally means " small one " or toddler, as well as mały Fiat (" small Fiat "), in contrast to Fiat 125p, called duży Fiat (" big Fiat ").

In the same era as the big steamships there were, by contrast, the barques and barquentines of less than a tenth the size that brought timber from Finland: survivors of the age of sail with three or more masts and representatives of the Baltic side of the timber trade.

In contrast, she globally polled less in western France, especially big cities such as Paris, overseas and among the French citizens living abroad ( 5. 95 %, 23, 995 votes ).

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.

A further distinction from their contemporaries was their T-shirt-and-jeans image which was in strong contrast to glam metal bands of the time, which were characterized by big hair, leather pants, and flashy makeup.

In contrast to the statement of George Lee that Irish taxpayers were exposed, an Anglo Irish Bank spokesperson was reported by the Irish Times to state that it did not have a " big exposure " to EMPG.

There is a big contrast in style between his secular work and his much more traditional churches.

Marvin Junior's husky lead vocal on the new version was in stark contrast to the smooth tenor of Johnny Funches on their original recording.

The last pages show Manhunter recovering and returning to Africa ( he disappeared in 1951 ); Paula going into a life of crime after being driven over the edge at witnessing Lance's death ; Ted Knight recovers and marries ; Al Pratt changes and grows more serious after the incident, in contrast to Johnny Thunder who " never changed "; Johnny Quick and Liberty Belle reconcile, and Quick looks forward to " a new age, as pure as sterling silver ".

By contrast, the broadcasting team in the CBS Radio booth next door, consisting of Jack Buck, Johnny Bench, and John Rooney, ran out as soon as the earthquake started.

Country and Western singer Johnny Cash was known to wear an all-black Western suit, in contrast to the elaborate Nudie suits worn by stars like Elvis and Porter Waggoner.

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.

By contrast, for higher frequency radiations at ultraviolet frequencies and above ( i. e., X-rays and gamma rays ) the damage to chemical materials and living cells by EMR is far larger than that done by simple heating, due to the ability of single photons in such high frequency EMR to damage individual molecules chemically.

In contrast, the method of verbal analysis does admit learners ' explanations as a way to reveal their mental model or misconceptions ( e. g., of the laws of motion ).

Criticizability, in contrast to falsifiability, and thus rationality, may be comprehensive ( i. e., have no logical limits ), though this claim is controversial even among proponents of Popper's philosophy and critical rationalism.

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.

In contrast, the reloading of shotshells that are usually not available in low-cost, promotional pricings, such as. 410 bore, 16 ga, 20 ga., and 28 ga., becomes more economical to reload in much smaller quantities, perhaps within only 3-5 boxes of shotshells per year.

In another the resurrection is shown to be that of what has gone down, i. e., the body ; the knowledge concerning it is the new doctrine in contrast with that of the old philosophers ; the doctrine follows from the command to keep the body in moral purity.

This meta-analysis was controversial and stands in stark contrast with two different reviews also performed in 2006 by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and a second JAMA review ; both indicated decreases in total mortality and cardiovascular incidents ( i. e., myocardial infarctions ) associated with the regular consumption of fish and fish oil supplements.

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.

In contrast, intra-religious pluralism refers to views held by specific schools or denominations within a major faith tradition ( e. g., by Eastern Orthodox Christians ) about the validity or truth of other schools or denominations within the same major faith tradition ( e. g., about Protestant Christianity or Roman Catholic Christianity ).

In contrast with a tax on real estate ( land and buildings ), a land value tax is levied only on the unimproved value of the land (" land " in this instance may mean either the economic term, i. e., all natural resources, or the natural resources associated with specific areas of the Earth's surface: " lots " or " land parcels ").

By contrast, inelastic scattering occurs when energy is transferred from the incoming X-ray to the crystal, e. g., by exciting an inner-shell electron to a higher energy level.

Most nations of Western Europe use more comprehensive measures, and in sharp contrast to the heated discussion in the U. S., abstinence is hardly discussed as an educational measure.

In contrast, a device that is offline meets none of these criteria ( e. g., its main power source is disconnected or turned off, or it is off-power ).

Similarly, the manual for the ORCA / M assembler refers to a field indicating the order of the bytes in a number field as, and the Mac OS X operating system refers to " byte sex " in its compiler tools .</ ref > The usual contrast is whether the most significant or least significant byte is ordered first — i. e., at the lowest byte address — within the larger data item.

It is called transistor – transistor logic because both the logic gating function ( e. g., AND ) and the amplifying function are performed by transistors ( contrast with RTL and DTL ).

Although Shakespeare based many of his characters on existing archetypes from fables and myths ( e. g., Romeo and Juliet on Arthur Brooke's Romeus and Juliet ), Shakespeare's characters stand out as original by their contrast against a complex social literary landscape.

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 to Weimar, political parties are explicitly mentioned in the constitution, i. e., officially recognized as important participants in politics.

In contrast, common names of nondipteran insects that have " fly " in their names are written as one word, e. g., butterfly, stonefly, dragonfly, scorpionfly, sawfly, caddisfly, whitefly.

In setting the opposite, an individual brings out a contrast in the meaning ( e. g., the definition, interpretation, or semantics ) by an obvious contrast in the expression.