In the United States, the United Methodist Church is the second-largest sponsor of Boy Scout units, with 11078 chartered units, representing over 370, 000 youth members ; by way of contrast, the Mormon Church, which sponsors a total of 37, 882 units-over three times as many-can boast a total youth membership of slightly over 420, 000, only a 13. 5 % increase over the UMC's total.

By contrast, in the related handheld console market, Nintendo has remained the market leader since the establishment of its wildly successful Game Boy line in 1989.

Cub Scouts have a distinctive two-finger salute according to the Jungle theme, in contrast to the three-finger salute of Boy Scouts.

By contrast, the Little Boy bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945 had a yield of some 13 – 18 kilotons.

In The Horse and His Boy, Lewis uses the cultural settings of Narnia, Archenland, and Calormen to develop a theme of freedom in contrast to slavery.

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.

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

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.

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

In contrast to the nuclear changes described above, another change in muscle nuclei was seen, usually occurring in fibers that were somewhat smaller than normal but that showed distinct cross-striations and myofibrillae.

A red filter, Zeiss barrier filter with the code ( Schott ) designation BG 23, was also used in the ocular lens assembly as it improved the contrast between specific and nonspecific fluorescence.

It did not serve to contrast the existing order of society with a possible alternative order, because the age of innocence was not a possible alternative once man had sinned.

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.

There was a marked contrast in the amount of information on bride and groom.

Backstage was tomblike by contrast.

There was considerable contrast between this Mulligan performance and that of Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, who are able to generate a tremendous sound for such a small group.

By contrast, the National Union Party was united and energized as Lincoln made emancipation the central issue, and state Republican parties stressed the perfidy of the Copperheads.

To Northerners, in contrast, the motivation was primarily to preserve the Union, not to abolish slavery.

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.

Machiavelli goes on to reason that Agathocles ' success, in contrast to other criminal tyrants, was due to his ability to mitigate his crimes by limiting them to those that " are applied at one blow and are necessary to one's security, and that are not persisted in afterwards unless they can be turned to the advantage of the subjects ".

Such a " wild type " allele was historically regarded as dominant, common, and " normal ", in contrast to " mutant " alleles regarded as recessive, rare, and frequently deleterious.

By the standards of 19th century tycoons, Carnegie was not a particularly ruthless man but a humanitarian with enough acquisitiveness to go in the ruthless pursuit of money ; on the other hand, the contrast between his life and the lives of many of his own workers and of the poor, in general, was stark.

This was in marked contrast to the four attempts at political union between 1606 and 1689, which all failed owing to a lack of political will in both kingdoms.

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.

By contrast, Kabbalism assumed an " eternal Torah " which was not identical to the Torah written in Hebrew.

The contrast between a high level of education and a low level of political rights was particularly great in Aarau, and the city refused to send troops to defend the Bernese border.

In contrast, no significant mortality reduction was observed with ARB treatment ( HR 0. 99 ; 95 % CI, 0. 94-1. 04 ; P = 0. 683 ).

" The term was introduced by Apollonius of Perga in his work on conic sections, but in contrast to its modern meaning, he used it to mean any line that does not intersect the given curve.

In contrast with modern basketball nets, this peach basket retained its bottom, and balls had to be retrieved manually after each " basket " or point scored ; this proved inefficient, however, so the bottom of the basket was removed, allowing the balls to be poked out with a long dowel each time.

In this study, the UK school children had a low baseline cellular immunity to mycobacteria which was increased by BCG ; in contrast, the Malawi school children had a high baseline cellular immunity to mycobacteria and this was not significantly increased by BCG.