By contrast, Rabbinic Judaism subsequently took the opposite view, espoused by Hillel, the leader of the other major Pharisee school of thought at the time ; in Hillel's view, men were allowed to divorce their wives for any reason.

It was this extensive samurai ( noble warrior class ) population which defined the character of Edo, particularly in contrast to the two major cities of Kyoto and Osaka ( neither of which were ruled by a daimyō or had a significant samurai population ).

Goren also worked to popularize the opening of four-card suits, in contrast to the well-known five card majors approach that has become a major feature of Standard American bidding.

In contrast to later duchies, these entities were not defined by strict administrative boundaries but by the area of settlement of major Germanic tribes.

In contrast, the major writings and most of what is now the New Testament were Homologoumena, or universally acknowledged for a long time, since the middle of the 2nd century or before.

In contrast to the funds themselves, investment managers are primarily located onshore in order to draw on the major pools of financial talent and to be close to investors.

The major characteristic of the climate is the contrast between a relatively rainy season from November to April and very dry weather for the rest of the year.

It took his career some time to recover from this blow and in contrast to his earlier major roles, he for some years had only occasional small parts.

In contrast to the 1990s, fewer major animated features of the 2000s included musical numbers, as the success of Pixar and DreamWorks computer animated films ( which were not musicals ) upset Disney's dominance.

A major block to understanding their significance was the importance attached by 19th-century biologists to the apparent blending of inherited traits in the overall appearance of the progeny, now known to be due to multigene interactions, in contrast to the organ-specific binary characters studied by Mendel.

The Old Testament is a Christian term for a collection of religious writings of ancient Israel that form the major and first section of Christian Bibles, in contrast to the Christian New Testament which deals explicitly with the 1st century Christianity.

This is in contrast to the other major class of antibiotics that inhibit cell wall synthesis, the glycopeptide antibiotics ( which includes vancomycin and teicoplanin ).

In the U. S. only the Department of Veterans Affairs randomly drug tests, in contrast to drug testing practices for other professions which have a major impact on public welfare.

In contrast, intra-religious pluralism refers to views held by specific schools or denominations within a major faith tradition ( e. g., by Eastern Orthodox Christians ) about the validity or truth of other schools or denominations within the same major faith tradition ( e. g., about Protestant Christianity or Roman Catholic Christianity ).

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.

In what some consider the best example of Roosevelt's animated oratorical style, an audio clip sponsored by the Authentic History Center includes his defense of the Progressive Party in 1912 wherein he proclaims it the " party of the people " in contrast with the other major parties.

Arafat's organization never embraced the ideologies of the major Arab governments of the time, in contrast to other Palestinian factions, which often became satellites of nations such as Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria and others.

In contrast, the Salon Cubists built their reputation primarily by exhibiting regularly at the Salon d ' Automne and the Salon des Indépendants, both major non-academic Salons in Paris.

This is in contrast to the other major type of electronic filter, the analog filter, which is an electronic circuit operating on continuous-time analog signals.

In contrast with igneous and metamorphic rocks, a sedimentary rocks usually contains very few different major minerals.

The major structural polymer in fungal cell walls is typically chitin, in contrast to plants that have cellulosic cell walls.

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.

In the early 19th century, many Russian artists, officers and nobles were sent into exile in Siberia for their part in the Decembrist revolt against Tsar Nicholas I. Irkutsk became the major center of intellectual and social life for these exiles, and much of the city's cultural heritage comes from them ; many of their wooden houses, adorned with ornate, hand-carved decorations, survive today, in stark contrast with the standard Soviet apartment blocks that surround them.

By contrast, the Habsburg frontier had settled into a reasonably permanent border, marked only by relatively minor battles concentrating on the possession of individual fortresses.

In contrast with most forms of racing, minor car-to-car contact is generally accepted in stock car racing.

By contrast, when the intronic flanking sequences do not follow the GU-AG rule, noncanonical splicing is said to occur ( see " minor spliceosome " below ).

In contrast to Independence Day, described above, Cinco de mayo is observed mostly at a local level ( Puebla State ) and is a minor Bank Holiday in the rest of Mexico.

This characterization, however, does not do justice to the extreme drama and topical contrast in all his works such as the Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor.

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 to the past where the head of Taiwan province was considered a major official, the Governor of the Taiwan Provincial Government after 1999 has been considered a very minor position.

In addition to the Moon and Sun, the other planets also cause a small movement of Earth's axis in inertial space, making the contrast in the terms lunisolar versus planetary misleading, so in 2006 the International Astronomical Union recommended that the dominant component be renamed the precession of the equator and the minor component be renamed precession of the ecliptic, but their combination is still named general precession.

As in Serling's 1963 screenplay for the political thriller, Seven Days in May, in which a highly moral minor character is named Art Corwin, the appellation of Carney's " Night of the Meek " character, Henry Corwin, was a tribute to Serling's idol, legendary television, film and, most memorably for Serling, radio writer Norman Corwin whose lengthy career, in contrast to Serling's relatively brief 50-year lifetime, had spanned over seven decades.

In human context, the term has other subordinate meanings associated with social and legal concepts ; for example, a legal adult is a legal concept for a person who has attained the age of majority and is therefore regarded as independent, self-sufficient, and responsible ( contrast with " minor ").

The scale is sometimes spelled with two thirds rather than a flatted fourth scale degree — e. g. C-D-E-E-G-A-B, with E substituting for F. In contrast to the term acoustic scale, the term " altered scale " almost always refers to this particular mode of the melodic minor, rather than the scale itself.

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.

In contrast to the élite status and court connections of Conservatory composers such as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, The Five were mainly from the minor gentry of the provinces.

By contrast, during the 180 ° rotation from mid-stroke through bottom-dead-centre and back to mid-stroke, the minor contribution to the piston's up / down movement from the connecting rod's change of angle has the opposite direction of the major contribution to the piston's up / down movement from the up / down movement of the crank pin.

In contrast, fluid bearings self-correct for minor imperfections.

In contrast to the big walls of Yosemite Valley, climbing at Tuolumne generally consists of short-to medium-length routes on eleven major domes and a number of minor ones, stretching from the Stately Pleasure Dome above Tenaya Lake to Lembert Dome on the east side of the Meadows.

In contrast, other communities may use a cul-de-sac based, housing estate / housing subdivision model where minor roads are disconnected and only feed into a street hierarchy of progressively more " arterial " type roads.

In contrast with many other East African economic systems, cattle played only a minor role.

Section C is contrast employing the tonic minor – C minor.

The verse is based on an ascending major chord sequence, while the middle eight, which modulates to the tonic minor, creates a telling contrast.

Usually if the person is a minor, he is called herdboy, if adult sometimes by contrast herdsman.

In contrast, other communities may use a cul-de-sac based, housing estate / housing subdivision model where minor roads are disconnected and only feed into a street hierarchy of progressively more " arterial " type roads.

In contrast to the albums of other pop artists at that time, Dino, Desi & Billy albums contained primarily cover versions of Top 40 songs made popular by others, with original content being minor.