Armored Cataphracts began to be deployed in eastern Europe and the near East, following the precedents established by Persian forces, as the main striking force of the armies in contrast to the earlier roles of cavalry as scouts, raiders, and outflankers.

In contrast, a Democratic Republic of the Congo government document shows that, also in 2005, the network of main highways in good condition was as follows:

Their main purpose in the novel is to show the reader the contrast between the firemen who do as they're told without question and someone like Montag, who formerly took pride in his job, but now realizes how damaging it is to society.

Scarlett's bad belle traits, her deceitfulness, shrewdness, manipulativeness, and superficiality, in contrast to Melanie's good belle traits, trust, self-sacrifice, and loyalty, enable Scarlett to survive in the post-war South, and pursue her main interest, making money.

In contrast to Carnatic music, the other main Indian classical music tradition originating from the South, Hindustani music was not only influenced by ancient Hindu musical traditions, historical Vedic philosophy and native Indian sounds but also enriched by the Persian performance practices of the Mughals.

Quasi-judicial institutions, by contrast, make rulings on cases, but these rulings are not in themselves legally binding ; the main example is the individual complaints mechanisms available under the various UN human rights treaties.

In contrast to the Judeo-Christian view of Jacob, one main difference is that the story of Jacob's blessing, in which he deceives Isaac, is not accepted in Islam.

This later source is generally known as the republican source, since here, and elsewhere, it denigrates the actions and role of the monarchy ( particularly those of Saul ) and favours religious figures, in contrast to the other main source – the monarchial source – which treats the monarchy favourably.

In the main, this is because the influence and prestige of the Jewish community of Israel steadily declined in contrast with the Babylonian community in the years after the redaction of the Talmud and continuing until the Gaonic era.

This is in contrast to the main foods eaten by the Han, which consisted of rice and chicken.

In contrast to the previously mentioned amplifiers, which are mostly used in telecommunication environments, this type finds its main application in expanding the frequency tunability of ultrafast solid-state lasers ( e. g. Ti: sapphire ).

In contrast, a device that is offline meets none of these criteria ( e. g., its main power source is disconnected or turned off, or it is off-power ).

The term Picotee refers to an edging on the petals that is in contrast to the colour of the main petal, if the colours blend.

As with all of Shakespeare's serious plays, there are also a number of minor comic characters whose activities contrast with and sometimes comment on the main plot.

In contrast, at the great staircase in the main hall is a giant painting of the triumphant Achilles full of pride.

In contrast, a conventional aircraft has a small horizontal stabilizer behind the main wing.

These programmes contrast with the simple good-versus-evil dualism of Star Wars, or the ' feel-good ' tone and unconnected episode structure of both early Star Trek and the series ' main contemporary Doctor Who.

In contrast, in a concurrently published response, Clive Tolley argues that the term must have originated in historical usage, and as such " it is something of a misrepresentation of the evidence to suggest that Snorri is the main source for the vanir.

A monoplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with one main set of wing surfaces, in contrast to a biplane or triplane.

The team abbreviations became white or black in the team's main color ( depending on color contrast ), and the scores are now in white boxes.

A subordinate clause (= embedded clause ), in contrast, is reliant on the appearance of a main clause ; it depends on the main clause and is therefore a dependent clause, whereas the main clause is an independent clause.

In contrast to the episcopal polity of the Anglican and many Lutheran and Methodist churches, Reformed churches have two main forms of governance:

In the 1998 Nicolas Cage mystery / thriller film " Snake Eyes ," Margate is the main character's place of residence, alluded to as a pleasant suburban town, in contrast to the grittier Atlantic City, which forms the backdrop of the story.

Molecular absorption, in contrast, is much broader, so that it is more likely that some molecular absorption band will overlap with an atomic line.

" 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, an underbridge allows passage under the line.

It is also known as the Book of the Revelation of Saint John the Divine or the Apocalypse of John, ( both in reference to its author ) or the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ ( in reference to its opening line ) or simply Revelation, ( often erroneously called Revelations in contrast to the singular in the original Koine ) or the Apocalypse.

As odds bets are paid at true odds, in contrast with the pass line which is always even money, playing pass odds on a minimum pass line bet lessens the house advantage.

In contrast to the Eastern forms upon which she based them, Crapsey always titled her cinquains, effectively utilizing the title as a sixth line.

This is in contrast with other sports like Association football and ice hockey, which require the puck or ball to pass completely over the goal line to count as a score.

If the goalkeeper deflects the ball over the outer goal line, their team stays in possession of the ball in contrast to other sports like association football.

They include brightfield Becke line, oblique, darkfield, phase contrast, and objective stop dispersion staining.

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.

In contrast, the Rams were able to reach inside the Tennessee 20-yard line on all 4 of their remaining drives before halftime, but on each one, the Titans defense forced St. Louis to settle for field goal attempts from kicker Jeff Wilkins, who was successful in making 3 of them, but missed one attempt from 34 yards.

By contrast, mercury delay line memory was slower and not truly random access, as the bits were presented serially, which complicated programming.

In contrast to Nortel's DMS-100 which uses individual line cards with a codec, most lines are on two-stage analog space-division concentrators or Line Units, which connect as many as 512 lines, as needed, to the 8 Channel cards that each contain 8 codecs, and to high-level service circuits for ringing and testing.

This last occurs in transmission line theory, the term secondary being used to contrast to the primary line coefficients.

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.

At the highest degree of separation, it can be difficult to draw the line between light rail and metros, as in the case of Wuppertal's Schwebebahn hanging rail system or London's Docklands Light Railway, which would likely not be considered " light " were it not for the contrast between it and the London Underground ; many consider these not to be " light rail " lines but light metros.

In contrast, the Eastern Roman Empire, and its line of Emperors, survived this historical period relatively intact.

The Texas Instruments TMS320 DSP line has evolved, in its C6xxx family, to look more like a VLIW, in contrast to the earlier C5xxx family.

In hyperbolic geometry, by contrast, there are infinitely many lines through A not intersecting ℓ, while in elliptic geometry, any line through A intersects ℓ ( see the entries on hyperbolic geometry, elliptic geometry, and absolute geometry for more information ).

By contrast, Eve's lines of descent to each person alive today includes precisely one purely matrilineal line.

By contrast, in a system with positive cooperativity such as hemoglobin, the plot begins as a line with slope, then ramps up to a new line ( also with slope ) that is offset upwards.

It was less sophisticated than software for industrial desktop computers, which had dedicated keys to load, store, and keys for editing within a line and debugging, but personal computer pricing, in contrast, started at $ 1, 565, not $ 7, 000.