In contrast, though Oslo ( Norway ) and Stockholm ( Sweden ) are quite dominant in terms of speech standards, cities like Bergen, Gothenburg and the Malmö-Lund region are large and influential enough to create secondary regional norms, making the standard language more varied than is the case with Danish.

The contrast ratio in available displays as of 2008 might be described as similar to that of newspaper, though newly developed displays are slightly better.

In contrast, rhubarb is often referred to as a fruit, because it is used to make sweet desserts such as pies, though only the petiole of the rhubarb plant is edible.

In contrast to Positivism, which held that statements are meaningless if they cannot be verified or falsified, Popper claimed that falsifiability is merely a special case of the more general notion of criticizability, even though he admitted that empirical refutation is one of the most effective methods by which theories can be criticized.

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.

The tenses of Ancient Greek are similar, though having a three-way aspect contrast in the past, the aorist, the perfect and the imperfect.

By contrast, incurring large or long-term debts ( though sometimes unavoidable ) is viewed as often resulting from irresponsibility or self-indulgence.

By contrast, so far as is known, the Basque language is an absolute isolate: It has not been shown to be related to any other language despite numerous attempts, though it has been influenced by neighboring Romance languages.

This explanation for the radical stylistic shift c. 1520 has fallen out of scholarly favor, though the early Mannerists are still set in stark contrast to High Renaissance conventions ; the immediacy and balance achieved by Raphael's School of Athens, no longer seemed interesting to young artists.

In contrast, though they remained small independent operations, motels quickly adopted a more homogenized appearance and were designed from the start to cater purely to motorists.

By contrast, Sega allowed blood and gore to remain in the Genesis version ( though a code was required to unlock the gore ).

In this it resembles the Greek pharmakos or scapegoat — though in contrast, pharmakos generally ejected a lowly member of the community.

Papua, by contrast, was deemed to be an External Territory of the Australian Commonwealth, though as a matter of law it remained a British possession.

A bet for value is in contrast to a bluff or a protection bet ( though some bets may have a combination of these motives ).

In contrast, affected children who are detected and treated are less likely to develop neurological problems or have seizures and mental retardation, though such clinical disorders are still possible.

The early tradition that expanded upon the Martyrdom to link Polycarp in competition and contrast with John the Apostle who, though many people had tried to kill him, was not martyred but died of old age after being exiled to the island of Patmos, is embodied in the Coptic language fragmentary papyri ( the " Harris fragments ") dating to the 3rd to 6th centuries.

In contrast, the revision by Pope Pius XII, though limited to the liturgy of only five days of the Church's year, was much bolder, requiring changes even to canon law, which until then had prescribed that, with the exception of Midnight Mass for Christmas, Mass should not begin more than one hour before dawn or later than one hour after midday.

After the relational model was defined, there were many attempts to compare and contrast the different models, and this led to the emergence of more rigorous descriptions of the earlier models ; though the procedural nature of the data manipulation interfaces for hierarchical and network databases limited the scope for formalization.

The term shareware is used in contrast to retail software, which refers to commercial software available only with the purchase of a license which may not be copied for others ; public domain software, which refers to software not copyright protected ; open-source software, in which the source code is available for anyone to inspect and alter ; and freeware, which refers to copyrighted software for which the developers solicit no payment ( though they may request donations ).

In contrast, the novels of Scott's contemporary Jane Austen, once appreciated only by the discerning few ( including, as it happened, Sir Walter Scott himself ) rose steadily in critical esteem, though Austen, as a female writer, was still faulted for her narrow (" feminine ") choice of subject matter, which, unlike Scott, avoided the grand historical themes traditionally viewed as masculine.

Finally, the rabbis claimed for the Hebrew language a divine authority, in contrast to Aramaic or Greek-even though these languages were the lingua franca of Jews during this period ( and Aramaic would eventually be given the same holy language status as Hebrew ).

By contrast, the humour and transformation in The Importance of Being Earnest is much lighter in tone, though Algernon's protest at his putative arrest, " Well I really am not going to be imprisoned in the suburbs for dining in the west-end!

In addition, while the segmental elements must be different in diphthongs so that, when it occurs in a language, does not contrast with though it is possible for languages to contrast and.

The group members behave passively, and act as though the leader, by contrast, is omnipotent and omniscient.

In contrast to the Northern Italian language, southern Italian dialects and languages were largely untouched by the Franco-Occitan influences introduced to Italy, mainly by bards from France, during the Middle Ages but, after the Norman conquest of southern Italy, Sicily became the first Italian land to adopt Occitan lyric moods ( and words ) in poetry.

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.

By contrast, the central and southern parts of Guangdong province experience an average January temperature of above, while the July mean is generally above.

The name is Latin for " the southern fish ", in contrast with the larger constellation Pisces, which represents a pair of fishes.

The erection of two discount hotel chain box buildings, at the southern end of Armada Way and the other at the Sound end of Leigham Street, contrast with their Victorian surroundings.

This in contrast to the SS in southern Germany, commanded unquestionably by Heinrich Himmler and located mostly in Munich which was the location of the major Nazi political offices.

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.

In contrast, the southern part of Havering adjacent to the Thames is within the London Riverside section of the Thames Gateway redevelopment area.

The southern part of the state was poor and unprogressive, in contrast to the industrious north.

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.

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

In this way, the medieval and early modern Fens stood in contrast to the rest of southern England, which was primarily an arable agricultural region.

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.

Chinese writers who spoke other dialects had to use the grammar and vocabulary of Jianghuai and Beijing Mandarin in order for the majority of Chinese to understand their writing ; by contrast, Chinese who did not speak southern dialects would not be able to understand a Southern dialect's writing.

Agriculture expansion of the central and southern regions of the prefecture was in contrast to the depopulation of these areas as a significant part of the population moved to the northeast of the prefecture as a result of the urbanization of Japan, a process that continues into the 21st century.

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

In this respect Mazanderan furnishes a striking contrast to the waste and barren shores of southern Persia, where for many hundred miles there is not a stream to be met with deep enough to take a horse above the knee.

By contrast to the heavily built up apron area, the airport's southern boundary is entirely rural with only a few isolated farm buildings and houses close to the airport boundary.

The southern half of the basin, in contrast, includes larger reaches of temperate and alpine forests as well as fertile floodplain and riparian habitat, but is actually home to fewer fish species due to large rapids on the Slave River preventing upstream migration of aquatic species.

In contrast, there have been increases in southern Europe, particularly in Italy, southern France, and northeastern Spain where the species first began breeding in the 1960s.

This was in contrast to the predominantly Catholic southern states such as the kingdoms of Bavaria and Württemberg or the Grand Duchy of Baden, where land was owned by small farms, or the mixed agriculture of the western states like the Grand Duchy of Hesse or even the Prussian Rhine and Westphalia provinces.