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Brown ( New World ) archaeoastronomers in contrast have abundant ethnographic and historical evidence and have been described as ' cavalier ' on matters of measurement and statistical analysis.
Ultimately, the French army and nation collapsed after barely two months of mobile operations, in contrast to the four years of trench warfare of the First World War.
In contrast, relatively few crannogs have been excavated since the Second World War, although this number has steadily grown, especially since the early 1980s and may soon surpass pre-war totals.
However, it remained poor and neglected, particularly in contrast with its western, French neighbor Saint-Domingue, which became the wealthiest colony in the New World and had half a million inhabitants.
In contrast, designers in Great Britain, Germany, the Soviet Union, and the United States believed that due to the increasing speed of fighter aircraft, the twisting and maneuvering typical of World War I dogfights would create g-forces unbearable to pilots.
In contrast to the Zulu War of 1906 and the outbreak of World War I in 1914, when he recruited volunteers for the Ambulance Corps, this time Gandhi attempted to recruit combatants.
In dramatic contrast stands the ambition of Wilhelm II's Weltpolitik to secure the Reich's future through expansion, leading to World War I.
Tim Berners-Lee calls the resulting network of Linked Data the Giant Global Graph, in contrast to the HTML-based World Wide Web.
The TRC's emphasis on reconciliation is in sharp contrast to the approach taken by the Nuremberg Trials after World War II and other de-Nazification measures.
However, there early appeared significant differences of practice between the Australian IWW and its US parent ; the Australian IWW tended to co-operate where possible with existing unions rather than forming its own, and in contrast with the US body took an extremely open and forthright stand against involvement in World War One.
In Christianity, the term often connotes the concept of the fallen and corrupt world order of human society, in contrast to the World to Come.
World War II saw the beginning of a mass Māori migration to the cities, and by the 1980s 80 % of the Māori population was urban, in contrast to only 20 % before the war.
In contrast to cities like Rotterdam ,'s-Hertogenbosch also survived the Second World War relatively unscathed.
In contrast, the English colonies generally pursued a more systematic policy of widespread settlement of the New World, for cultivation and exploitation of the land, which required the extension of European property rights to the new continent.
Historians and economists consider the GI Bill a major political success — especially in contrast to the treatments of World War I veterans — and a major contribution to America's stock of human capital that sped long-term economic growth.
Since the end of the First World War, aircraft types in British military service have generally been known by a name ( e. g. " Spitfire "), with individual variants recognised by mark numbers, in contrast to the systems such as that used in the United States, where an aircraft type is primarily identified by an alphanumeric designation.
Just as the contrast between Europe and America was a predominant theme in James's early novels, many of his first tales also explored the clash between the Old World and the New.
In contrast to many larger, corporate-owned mills that were wedded to a particular product, the economic organization of Wauregan Mills enabled its owner / managers to easily diversity and change its product mix to meet new demands resulting from competition from newer textile centers, allowing them to stay profitable through World War II, much longer than many other larger mills.
In contrast, the New World pitcher plants ( Sarraceniaceae ), which comprise three genera, are ground-dwelling herbs whose pitchers arise from a horizontal rhizome.
The error was trumpeted by some media outlets as " The Bum Note Heard Round The World ", in contrast to Freddie Mercury's powerful, sustained note during the a cappela section of Queen's Wembley set, which was dubbed as " The Note Heard Round The World ".
It is used in the context of, and contrast with, the " New World " ( i. e., the Americas and sometimes Oceania, though excluding Australasia ).
In Bath, there is a particular contrast between the concrete campus and the Georgian style architecture of the World Heritage City of Bath.
Canada first fielded a corps-sized formation in the First World War ; the Canadian Corps was unique in that its composition did not change from inception to the war's end, in contrast to British corps in France and Flanders.

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By contrast, the U. S. admitted more than 100, 000 Vietnamese refugees for resettlement during the Vietnam War.
In contrast, those who justified US interventions in the Cold War period always cast these as being motivated by the need to contain totalitarianism and thus fulfilled a higher moral imperative.
The earliest copies of The Jewish War by Josephus ( originally composed in the 1st century AD ), in contrast, come from nine manuscripts written in the 10th, 11th and 12th centuries.
This stands in sharp contrast to the 1980s, before the fall of the Soviet Union, when Sweden could gather up to 800, 000 men when total mobilization had been declared ; but the importance placed on defensive spending during the Cold War is perhaps best reflected by the fact that Sweden in the late 1950s ran the world's fourth-largest air force.
The Saarland's reunification with the Federal Republic of Germany was sometimes referred to as the Kleine Wiedervereinigung (" little reunification ", in contrast with the post-Cold War absorption of the GDR ).
In contrast to the relatively straightforward arrangements for the Central Pacific, the Union Pacific which was to ultimately build nearly 2 / 3 of the track was to be mired in controversy and scandals while its controlling partner Thomas C. Durant got rich as he took advantage of lax or non-existent government oversight during the Civil War.
This is in contrast to the redemptive power conflict has on the characters in War and Peace.
The accident-free record of United States Navy reactor operations stands in stark contrast to those of America's primary competitor during the Cold War, the Soviet Union, which lost several submarines to reactor accidents in both its haste and chosen priorities for competing with superior U. S. technology.
By contrast, Prussia had fought for three years in the War of the First Coalition with little achievement.
Ballistic missile submarines established a second strike capability through their stealth and by the number fielded by each Cold War adversary — it was highly unlikely that all of them could be targeted and preemptively destroyed ( in contrast to, for example, a missile silo with a fixed location that could be targeted during a first strike ).
In contrast to many of his predecessors, Clay participated in several debates, and used his influence to procure the passage of measures he supported — for instance, the declaration of the War of 1812, and various laws relating to Clay's " American System ".

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In contrast, Michael Novak described it as a spirit that " sometimes soared far beyond the actual, hard-won documents and decisions of Vatican II.
By contrast, the cut-and-paste transposition mechanism of class II TEs does not involve an RNA intermediate.
By contrast, Richard II had no children and Richard's heir-presumptive Edmund Mortimer was only seven years old.
He and his wife, Queen Elisabeth, were popular in Belgium due to their simple, unassuming lifestyle and their harmonious family life, which stood in marked contrast to the aloof, autocratic manner and the irregular private life of Leopold II.
In contrast with earlier practice, Theodore II was not crowned co-emperor with his father, though he assisted in the government since c. 1241.
By contrast, Sir Winston Churchill's 1948 book The Gathering Storm presented World War II as caused by the insane ambitions of Adolf Hitler who was unwillingly abetted by cowardly and weak-willed British and French leaders who chose appeasement over resistance.
The town has a rich architectural heritage ( Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Historicist, Art Nouveau ), which was — in contrast to most other historical German cities — never severely destroyed during World War II, except for the explosion of bridges and minor clashes.
Unlike the galactic disc, the halo seems to be free of dust, and in further contrast, stars in the galactic halo are of Population II, much older and with much lower metallicity than their Population I cousins in the galactic disc ( but similar to those in the galactic bulge ).
In contrast, EBV from epithelial cells are rich in the three-part complexes because these cells do not have MHC class II.
This is in stark contrast to the situation with Horemheb, Ramesses I and Ramesses II who all lived to an advanced age.
His discovery lay at the base of the first phase contrast microscope, built during World War II.
By contrast, the Kingdom of Prussia was ruled in turn by Friedrich I, Friedrich Wilhelm I, Friedrich II, and Friedrich Wilhelm II ; and later by Wilhelm I.
In contrast to Cepheids, RR Lyraes are old, relatively low mass, metal-poor " Population II " stars.
By contrast the Infantry tank Matilda II fielded in lesser numbers was largely invulnerable to German gunfire and its gun was able to punch through the German tanks.
He was an advocate of maneuverable fighter aircraft, in contrast to the heavy, powerful jet fighters that were prevalent in the 1960s, such as the F-4 Phantom II and General Dynamics F-111.
By contrast, superantigens do not require processing by antigen-presenting cells but instead interact directly with the invariant region of the class II MHC molecule.
Czechoslovakia, by contrast, was a small country that had already reached a high level of industrialization and was rather heavily dependent on foreign trade when the Soviet system was first imposed after World War II.
In contrast to the works of Boyz II Men, Babyface and similar artists, other R & B artists from this same period began adding even more of a hip hop sound to their work.
James II and Evelyn, in contrast, reported that the boy's father was one of the Sidney brothers.
Interpreters often take these first ten books to correspond with the Earthly City, in contrast to the City of God discussed in Part II, which comprises the remaining twelve books.

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