In contrast to cocktail parties, military organizations, even in the field, are more formal.

No more startling contrast to a system of sullen satellites could be imagined.

In he's hurting himself more than he's hurting you both himself and you have stronger stress than they would ordinarily have if there were no contrast.

By contrast, even experienced linguists commonly know no more of the range of possibilities in tone systems than the over-simple distinction between register and contour languages.

Their experience is quite in contrast with that of children of upper- and upper-middle-class native-born parents, who are more likely to regard education as good for its own sake and to discount the vocational emphases in the curriculum.

His personality appears more striking by contrast with Marina, who is -- perhaps purposely -- rather superficially characterized.

But there was a contrast even more decisive than a hunger for fact between the Trial in Jerusalem and those in Moscow and New York.

The outside of the skin is shed periodically more or less in one piece in contrast to mammals and birds where it is shed in flakes.

To contrast with the more stereotyped descriptions, Christie often characterised the " foreigners " in such a way as to make the reader understand and sympathise with them ; this is particularly true of her Jewish characters, who are seldom actually criminals.

In contrast, there was an Old Text school that advocated the use of Confucian works written in ancient language ( from this comes the denomination Old Text ) that were so much more reliable.

The largest species are red alder ( A. rubra ) on the west coast of North America, and black alder ( A. glutinosa ), native to most of Europe and widely introduced elsewhere, both reaching over 30 m. By contrast, the widespread Alnus viridis ( green alder ) is rarely more than a 5 m tall shrub.

In contrast, the Danes preferred to choose easy targets, mapping cautious forays designed to avoid risking all their accumulated plunder with high-stake attacks for more.

Don Chisciotte was a mix of ballet and opera buffa, and the lead female roles in L ' amore innocente were designed to contrast and highlight the different traditions of operatic writing for soprano, even borrowing stylistic flourishes from opera-seria in the use of coloratura in what was a short pastoral comedy more in keeping with a Roman Intermezzo.

In contrast, the markings of piano represent the protagonist with its softer, more tranquil tones.

In contrast, other, more systematic algorithms achieved, at least theoretically, completeness for first-order logic.

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.

Molecular absorption, in contrast, is much broader, so that it is more likely that some molecular absorption band will overlap with an atomic line.

By contrast, in mainstream Analytical philosophy the topic is more confined to abstract investigation, in the work of such influential theorists as W. V. O. Quine, to name one of many.

) 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 most synthetic polymers have much simpler and more random ( or stochastic ) structures.

In essence, the excesses of Scarface contrast with the more emotional tragedy of Carlito's Way.

To make the show more cost-effective, it was also shot with virtually no outdoor scenes ( in contrast to the first series which was shot largely on location ) and several frequently used indoor sets, such as the Queen's throne room and Blackadder's front room.

This was in sharp contrast to his insistence, for more than 30 years, that those killed on the day had not been innocent.

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.

In contrast, for the girl the epiphysis was slightly advanced at Onset and delayed at Completion.

British scientists by contrast, lacked research universities and did not train advanced students ; instead the practice was to hire German-trained chemists.

The second ( more recent and more advanced ) technique employs focal plane array detection for infrared chemical imaging, where the image contrast is determined by the response of individual sample regions to particular IR wavelengths selected by the user.

By the mid to late-1970s some parts of the capitalist world, including South Korea, were creating new industries based around computers, electronics, and other advanced technology in contrast to North Korea's Stalinist economy of mining and steel production.

By contrast, civilian rifle design has not significantly advanced since the early part of the 20th century.

This stands in contrast to the earlier belief that they were the most advanced of all protozoa.

By contrast, offering readers modern teenage-oriented fiction may not exercise their advanced reading skills, while the material may contain themes more suited to adolescents.

In addition, the eye and the visual system can be routinely and easily monitored for visual function and retinal structural changes after injections with noninvasive advanced technology, such as visual acuities, contrast sensitivity, fundus auto-fluorescence ( FAF ), dark-adapted visual thresholds, vascular diameters, pupillometry, electroretinography ( ERG ), multifocal ERG and optical coherence tomography ( OCT ).

In contrast, the Japan pavilion advanced the idea of a modern yet exotic culture unfamiliar to the turn-of-the-century Western world, much as it had during the earlier Chicago World's Fair.

In contrast, the Temnospondyli had a conservative vertebral column in which the pleurocentra remained small in primitive forms, vanishing entirely in the more advanced ones.

Gormenghast makes a stark contrast with the industrious and technologically advanced city which is the setting of Titus Alone.

A compound microscope also makes more advanced illumination setups, such as phase contrast.

Finally, in contrast to the merger, the merger appears to be more advanced.

Effort is made to provide an atmosphere in which the nonobservant will not feel intimidated by any perceived contrast between their lack of knowledge of Jewish practice and the advanced knowledge of some of the people they meet there.

The Mongol system was a stark contrast to the clumsy European systems, in which knights advanced with basically no communication with supporting forces.

In contrast though, as described in the following section, some insects, such as some members of the Trigonalidae, not only are specialist hyperparasitoids, but have advanced behavioural adaptations to support their speciality.

This is in stark contrast to the situation with Horemheb, Ramesses I and Ramesses II who all lived to an advanced age.

The cranium is short, low, and flattened on the top ( in contrast to more advanced proboscids, which have a higher and more domed forehead ; the implication may be that deinotheres were less intelligent than other proboscids ), with very large, elevated occipital condyles.

In contrast, his final brain, which was thousands of times more advanced than his first, showed signs of shutting down after only 600 years.

In contrast to the ' advanced liberalism ' of Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing, which still involved social conservatism, Madelin's was more consistently classical liberal and economically similar to Thatcherism.

In contrast, white patients with advanced glaucoma who have no life-threatening health problems should begin a treatment program that starts with trabeculectomy.

In contrast, the Mechanists have disdain for the Shapers ' methods and instead prefer to use cybernetic augmentation, advanced computer software, technical expertise, and drugs to achieve their goals.

A notable recent development in the LCD technology is " dynamic contrast " ( DC ), also called " advanced contrast ratio " ( ACR ) and various other designations.