In contrast to later games in the Civilization series, this is largely a cosmetic choice, affecting titles, city names, musical heralds, and color.

In contrast to games such as Risk or Monopoly, in which a close game can extend indefinitely, German-style games usually have a mechanism to stop the game within its stated playing time.

In contrast, the Deutscher Spiele Preis (" German game prize ") is often awarded to games that are more complex and strategic, such as Puerto Rico.

Most forms of stud poker, in contrast, are open games, because some players ' cards are dealt face up or are exposed during play ( blind stud games are an exception ).

In contrast to improv theater, storytelling gamers describe the actions of their characters rather than acting them out, except during dialogue or, in some games, monologue.

The previous ABC affiliate, KTVI, in contrast, was one of the strongest affiliates-it had become a Fox station in 1995, and thus, has televised the majority of the Rams ' games in this period.

In contrast to the " meat grinder " style of some games, it is possible for a skilled player to defeat a much larger force with few or no casualties.

In contrast, they lost all but one of the seven games in which he was absent during the same period.

This is in contrast with some other casino card games, such as blackjack, where a higher number of decks used will increase the house edge.

By contrast, generalized games that can last for a number of moves that is polynomial in the size of the board are often PSPACE-complete.

For example, a major character from the game is killed off in the first few moments of the film and it takes place in the 2070s, in stark contrast to the games, which take place in the late 2030s-early 2040s and it acts like a OVA.

In contrast, the WFL's 1974 schedule called for 20 regular-season games and no pre-season games ; in 1975, it was 18 regular-season games and two pre-season games.

The Mavericks have won 50 or more regular season games in 11 consecutive seasons, dating back to 2001 — a stark contrast ( and almost diametrically opposed ) to the 10-season streak of losing seasons from the 1990 – 91 to the 1999 – 2000 season.

In contrast to the Olympic flame proper, the torch relay of modern times, which transports the flame from Greece to the various designated sites of the games, had no ancient precedent and was introduced by Carl Diem at the controversial 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.

By contrast, other games such as Werewolf and How to Host a Murder are role-based, with each player being given a character or other role to play in the course of the game.

The game, somewhat in contrast to other SCUMM engine games, may present situations where the player can die.

An important innovation in Phantasy Star that would later become common in console role-playing games was the use of pre-defined player characters with their own backstories, in contrast to computer role-playing games such as the Wizardry and Gold Box games where the player's avatars ( such as knights, clerics, or thieves ) were simply blank slates.

In Pimen's cell the soft prayers of the monks, heard from offstage, not only help to set the scene but emphasize the contrast between young Grigori's thoughts and his situation.

By contrast with empiricism and idealism, which emphasize the epistemologically privileged status of sense data ( empirical ) and the primacy of Reason ( theoretical ) respectively, modern rationalism adds a third ' system of thinking ', ( as Gaston Bachelard has termed these areas ) and holds that all three are of equal importance: The empirical, the theoretical and the abstract.

As of 1987, he replaced the term " mass comparison " with " multilateral comparison ", to emphasize its contrast with the bilateral comparisons recommended in linguistics textbooks.

Justin may have preferred the designation " memoirs of the apostles " as a contrast to the " gospel " of his contemporary Marcion to emphasize the connections between the historical testimony of the gospels and the Old Testament prophecies which Marcion rejected.

The quilter may choose to emphasize these designs by using threads that are multicolored or metallic, or that contrast highly to the fabric.

In contrast, modern conceptions of rights often emphasize liberty and equality as among the most important aspects of rights, though conceptions of liberty ( e. g. positive or negative ) and equality ( e. g. of opportunity or of outcome ) frequently differ.

In contrast, both Davis and Penck were seeking to emphasize the importance of evolution of landscapes through time and the generality of Earth surface processes across different landscapes under different conditions.

In contrast, Western architecture emphasize on height, though there are exceptions such as pagodas.

This is in contrast to the more traditional critical path and PERT methods, which emphasize task order and rigid scheduling.

It also represented an important turning point for Beebe, because in contrast to his youthful fascination with adding animals to his collection, in this book he was beginning to emphasize the importance of wildlife conservation.

Artists use darkness to emphasize and contrast with light.

In contrast, instrument amplifiers are often designed to add additional tonal coloration to the original signal or emphasize certain frequencies.

In the 19th century Anglo-American Spiritualist ideas emphasize the progression of the soul after death to higher states of existence, in contrast to Spiritism, which admits reincarnation.

The term " chromoplast " is occasionally utilized to include any plastid that has pigment, mostly to emphasize the contrast with the various types of leucoplasts, which are those plastids that have no pigments.

In contrast to these views that emphasize genetic mechanisms, another view hypothesizes that population dynamics during population divergence may cause Haldane ’ s rule.

More recently, the Chinese community which controls many businesses in French Polynesia has been targeted in verbal attacks by the newly allied Gaston Flosse and Oscar Temaru in their political fight against Gaston Tong Sang, whose Chinese origins they emphasize in contrast with their Polynesian origins, despite the fact that they both have mixed origins ( European and Polynesian for Flosse ; Polynesian and Chinese for Temaru ).

Efficiency wages are therefore a market failure explanation of unemployment – in contrast to theories which emphasize government intervention ( such as minimum wages ).

Reggaeton – whose lyrics emphasize Sensuality, Individualism and sex, in graphic and sexually explicit terms – stands in sharp contrast to the tradition of Cuban underground rap, the content of which is more often characterized by social commentary on inequality and injustice.

This led to the belief among many interpreters and composers that texture was the most important contrast, and that tempo should be used to emphasize this contrast: fast sections were conducted faster, slower sections were conducted or played more slowly.

By contrast, left dislocation is like clefting: it can be used to emphasize or define a topic.

It is important to emphasize that reducing the contrast is not the same as blurring an image.

Various structures of chiasmus are commonly seen in ancient literature to emphasize, parallel, or contrast concepts or ideas.

Wilde ’ s Gothic setting helps emphasize the contrast between cultures — setting modern Americans in what could arguably be a classic symbol of British history — and underscores the " modern " thinking of the house's mismatched residents, the Otises.

In contrast within the Abbey is the massive kitchen with a running stream specially diverted to pass through as a supply of fresh water.

Cleveland, however, was relying increasingly on the running game, in contrast to its pass-happy early years under Graham.

It is said that the rivalry was fueled in the 1970s due to the stark contrast of the teams: the Cowboys, being more of a " flashy " team with Roger Staubach's aerial attack and the " flex " Doomsday Defense ; while the Steelers were more of a " blue-collar " team with a strong running game and the 1970s-esque Steel Curtain defense, a contrast that still exists today.

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, approaches such as full virtualization ( like VMware ) and paravirtualization ( like Xen or UML ) cannot achieve such level of density, due to overhead of running multiple kernels.

Ibn Fadlan's disgust is possibly because of the contrast to the personal hygiene practises particular to the Muslim world at the time, such as the use of running water and clean vessels.

In contrast, running begins when both feet are off the ground with each step.

Ekiden contests – which originated in Japan and remain very popular there – are a relay race variation on the marathon, being in contrast to the typically individual sport of road running.

To keep the batting from shifting, a patchwork or pieced quilt is often quilted by hand or machine using a running stitch in order to outline the individual shapes that make up the pieced top, or the quilting stitches may be random or highly ordered overall patterns that contrast with the patchwork composition.

In contrast, videotex was always highly centralized ( except in the French Minitel service, also including thousands of information providers running their own servers connected to the packet switched network " TRANSPAC ").

In contrast, hares rarely dig shelters of any kind, and their bodies are more suited to fast running than to burrowing.

In computer science, run time, run-time, runtime, or execution time is the time during which a program is running ( executing ), in contrast to other phases of a program's lifecycle such as compile time, link time, load time, etc.

Curculioidids, by contrast, have an opisthosoma without obvious tergites, but with a single median sulcus ; a dividing line running down the middle of the back.

In contrast to all other commercial operating systems, Guardian was based on message passing as the basic way for all processes to interact, without shared memory, regardless of where the processes were running.

But the contrast, at this crisis, between his self-sacrificing patriotism and the treachery of the Russophil aristocracy was so striking that, when the Riksdag assembled, Gustav found that the three lower estates were ultra-royalist, and with their aid he succeeded, not without running great risks in crushing the opposition of the nobility by a second coup d ' état on February 16, 1789 and passing the famous Act of Union and Security which gave the king an absolutely free hand as regards foreign affairs and the command of the army, and made further treason impossible.

By contrast, the Liberals found themselves increasingly criticized for running a poor campaign and making numerous gaffes.

In contrast Darwin argued that the wings of emus would be definitely vestigial, as they appear to have no major extant function ; however, function is a matter of degree, so judgements on what is a " major " function are arbitrary ; the emu does seem to use its wings as organs of balance in running.

This term is used in contrast to running rigging, which represents elements of rigging which move and change fairly often while under sail.

By contrast, the unassisted triple play is essentially always a matter of luck: a combination of the right circumstances with the relatively simple effort of catching the ball and running in the right direction with it.

In contrast to running, jumping rope is unlikely to lead to knee damage since the impact of each jump or step is absorbed by the balls of both feet rather than the heels.

During the 2004 general election, disgruntled former members of the Independent Democrats accused her of running the party in a " undemocratic " manner-in direct contrast with the image of transparency and accountability that she grounded her party on.

Static verification or static code analysis, by contrast, involves detecting errors in the source code without ever compiling or running it, just by discovering logical inconsistencies.