One of the most recognizable constellations of the northern summer and autumn, it features a prominent asterism known as the Northern Cross ( in contrast to the Southern Cross ).

A cultural definition of Europe as the lands of Latin Christendom coalesced in the 8th century, signifying the new cultural condominium created through the confluence of Germanic traditions and Christian-Latin culture, defined partly in contrast with Byzantium and Islam, and limited to northern Iberia, the British Isles, France, Christianized western Germany, the Alpine regions and northern and central Italy.

The industrial revolution changed a mainly rural society into an urban one, but with a strong contrast between northern and southern Belgium.

The lush, green vegetation along the Mediterranean coast and surrounding the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel and southern Syria stands in marked contrast to the arid landscape elsewhere.

In contrast, the larger, northern part of Ontario is sparsely populated.

The island is characterized by the contrast between the eastern two-thirds, consisting mostly of rugged mountains running in five ranges from the northern to the southern tip of the island, and the flat to gently rolling Chianan Plains in the west that are also home to most of Taiwan's population.

Most buildings are in the Romanesque style, although some dormitories, engineering buildings, and physical sciences labs are of various Modernist styles ( especially two large Brutalist dormitories at the campus ' northern edge ) that sharply contrast with the predominantly red-brick campus.

This is in contrast to northern pike which have dark bodies with light markings.

It has often been equated with antipodean identity, the contrast to the white swan of the northern hemisphere indicating ' Australianness '.

In contrast to females, some male northern bottlenose whales have been repeatedly recorded together over several years, and possibly form long-term associations.

Many of these immigrants were from northern Italy, in contrast to the majority of Italian immigrants to America during this same time period that hailed from southern Italy.

In the center of Almaty, like any large city, there is a " heat island " – average daily temperature contrast between the northern and southern suburbs of the city is 3. 8 % and 0. 8 ° C ( 1. 4 ° F ) in the coldest and 2. 2 % and 2. 6 ° C ( 4. 7 ° F ) in the hottest five days.

This was in sharp contrast with some of the northern Indian Rajas.

In contrast to Hindustani music of the northern part of India, Carnatic music is taught and learned through compositions, which encode many intricate musical details, also providing scope for free improvisation.

By contrast the northern end proved not to be as successful initially ; being exposed to the commercial activity of the lower street, it lost its fashionability as a quiet enclave of grand townhouses, whilst also being too far away from the commercial core of the city to stand as a strong retail location.

In contrast to most of Montenegro, Podgorica lies in a mainly flat area at the northern end of the Zeta plain.

The northern area, the so-called Göhrde and the Drawehn, are by contrast mostly wooded like the southern ridge of end moraine.

Greece ( as well as Cyprus ), also polled as, ostensibly, one of the most religious countries in Europe, according to Eurostat ; however, while the church has wide respect as a moral and cultural institution, a contrast in religious belief with Protestant northern Europe is more obvious than one with Catholic Mediterranean Europe.

By contrast, the Dörbets who moved to the northern part of the Stavropol province were called Ike ( Greater ) Dörbet even though their population was smaller.

In contrast, the northern Italian theatre was very active.

Also in contrast, Danish traditional music has a more prominent guitar than the northern neighbors.

In contrast, the northern coastal stretch is mostly unspoiled and set to become an elite tourism destination as a number of beach resorts are being built since 2009.

In contrast, attestations of the Welsh word for pine marten ( bele ), date back at least to the 10th century Welsh Laws and possibly much earlier in northern England.

In contrast with other continents, it is marked by the comparatively small area of either very high or very low ground, lands under occupying an unusually small part of the surface ; while not only are the highest elevations inferior to those of Asia or South America, but the area of land over is also quite insignificant, being represented almost entirely by individual peaks and mountain ranges.

In contrast, one may need to perform less work to make part A be twice as fast.

In contrast, the Fitzroy Lions, a foundation club of the VFL / AFL, had been among the dregs of the league for the better part of the last four decades.

In contrast, the KMT or pan-blue coalition agrees that the Republic of China is an independent and sovereign country that is not part of the PRC, but argues that a one China principle ( with different definitions across the strait ) can be used as the basis for talks with the PRC.

The Gnostics considered the most essential part of the process of salvation to be this personal knowledge, in contrast to faith as an outlook in their world view along with faith in the ecclesiastical authority.

Iodine's relatively high atomic number, low toxicity, and ease of attachment to organic compounds have made it a part of many X-ray contrast materials in modern medicine.

" Particular " or " Partial justice ", by contrast, is the part of " general justice " or the individual virtue that is concerned with treating others equitably.

MRI is used to image every part of the body, and is particularly useful for tissues with many hydrogen nuclei and little density contrast, such as the brain, muscle, connective tissue and most tumors.

In contrast with the Cathars and in line with the Church, they believed in only one God, but they did not recognize priesthood nor the veneration ( not synonymous with worship ) of saints and martyrs, which were part of the Church's orthodoxy.

Subsequent loss of the nasal / oral contrast in vowels may result in nasal consonants becoming part of the phoneme inventory.

Movable property on land, that which was not automatically sold with the land, included for example larger livestock ( wildlife and smaller livestock like chickens, by contrast, was often sold as part of the land ).

By contrast, meroplankton are only planktic for part of their lives ( usually the larval stage ), and then graduate to either a nektic or benthic ( sea floor ) existence.

The Oratorians, by contrast, reserved it a lesser place, in part due to the stress they placed on modern language acquisition and a more sensualist philosophy ( like Bernard Lamy's La Rhétorique ou l ' Art de parler ( 1675 ) which is an excellent example of their approach ).

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

Willis drew the contrast that early radical feminism saw itself as part of a broad left politics, whereas much of what succeeded it in the 1970s and early 1980s ( both cultural feminism and liberal feminism ) took the attitude that " left politics were ' male ' and could be safely ignored.

By contrast the rights of a leaseholder originate in personal actions and so the common law originally treated a leasehold as part of personal property.

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.

By contrast, most of the best officers in the French navy had been either executed or dismissed from the service during the early part of the French Revolution.

In typical 18th-to 21st-century oratorios and masses, chorus or choir is usually understood to imply more than one singer per part, in contrast to the quartet of soloists also featured in these works.

Hot Creek is part of a stream that follows part of a fault line and is well known for its hydrothermal pools and for the contrast swimmers experience between the cold stream water and either the occasional plume of very hot water ( which can scald swimmers ' feet and can on rare occasions cause more serious injury ) or even long and very strong upwellings of hot water when enough water is in the hydrothermal system.

In contrast to systems-level application managers, application-level package managers focus on a small part of the software system.

The information-gathering part of a journalist's job is sometimes called " reporting ," in contrast to the production part of the job such as writing articles.