We were to discover, in fact, that quite a number of people share with us the impression that, in contrast to other Soviet regions, Moscow's atmosphere is depressingly subdued and official.

We have a brief glimpse of the Tsar's public personality, the `` official Boris '', but our real focus is on the excitement of the crowd -- a significant contrast with its halfhearted acclamation in the opening scene, its bitter resentment and fury in the final act.

Vespasian is remembered by Josephus, in his Antiquities of the Jews, as a fair and humane official, in contrast with the notorious Herod the Great whom Josephus goes to great lengths to demonize.

Her cults may represent the religiously legitimate charm and seduction of the divine by mortals, in contrast to the formal, contractual relations between most members of Rome's official pantheon and the state, and the unofficial, illicit manipulation of divine forces through magic.

In contrast, a local official and a tribal source claimed that 49 civilians, including 23 women and 17 children, were among those killed in the strike.

Reform Judaism ( North America ) has had a number of official platforms, but in contrast to rabbinic Judaism, rejects the view that Jews must have any specific beliefs.

Today, China proper is a controversial concept in China itself, since the current official paradigm does not contrast the core and the periphery of China.

It was one of the first four Soviet cities to be awarded the title of " Hero City " in 1945, though some of the Odessans had a more favourable view of the Romanian occupation, in contrast with the Soviet official view that the period was exclusively a time of hardship, deprivation, oppression and suffering – claims embodied in public monuments and disseminated through the media to this day.

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.

He reduced official operating costs, walked his trips with a single assistant, and, by the studied lack of ceremony, placed his own frugality in striking contrast with the oppressive opulence of provincial magistrates.

" In Greece " Burkert concludes, " the special function of the Adonis legend is as an opportunity for the unbridled expression of emotion in the strictly circumscribed life of women, in contrast to the rigid order of polis and family with the official women's festivals in honour of Demeter.

El castellano ( Castilian ) by contrast, is more often used when contrasting the language with other regional languages of Spain: official languages like Basque, Catalan and Galician or unofficial ones like Aragonese, Asturian, Extremaduran, Leonese and so on.

In contrast to the trend at MIT of referring to buildings by their numbers rather than their official names, the complex is usually referred to as " Stata ", or " the Stata Center ".

This announcement was a sharp contrast with the former official doctrine that Indonesia was mainly a wingewest ( region for making profit ).

" In order to contrast the aggressive assault put forth on Reign in Blood, Slayer consciously slowed down the tempo of the album as a whole ", according to Slayer's official biography.

In contrast to the duo's other official live releases ( The Concert in Central Park, Old Friends: Live on Stage, and Live 1969 ), this recording features Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel performing alone.

These charts are considered " official " in contrast to those made by commercial publishers.

By contrast, during leadership contests for the official opposition party, the leader of the opposition has often ( though not always ) been occupied by an interim parliamentary leader.

By contrast, an official editorial, which is rather infrequent, means that the government has reached a final decision on an issue.

In contrast, simplified Chinese characters are used in mainland China, Singapore and Malaysia in official publications.

The Donatists also opposed the involvement of Emperor Constantine in church affairs in contrast to the majority of Christians who welcomed official imperial recognition.

Eulogius's writings documenting stories of the Córdoba martyrs of 851 – 59, encouraged by him to defy Muslim authorities with blasphemies and embrace martyrdom, contrast these Christians with the earlier official Christianity of the Visigoths, by Reccared, the previous bishop of Córdoba, who counseled tolerance and mutual forbearance with the Muslim authorities.

In contrast to the official government efforts to deal with the disaster, which were considered uncoordinated and haphazard, Tzu-Chi was widely praised for its efforts.

Chinese Roman Catholic house churches generally recognize the authority of the Pope in contrast to the official Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association where such recognition is not possible because Papal Supremacy is not only doctrinal but also because he heads the Vatican, an external nation State.

The group argued that the Oslo negotiations were undemocratic, excluded the PLO from decision-making and deprived the Palestinians of their legitimate rights, but in contrast to most other Alliance members they did not oppose a two-state solution as such.

Totila spent the following season establishing himself in the south and reducing pockets of resistance, while the unpaid Imperial troops in central Italy made such poor reputations pillaging the countryside that when Totilas turned his attention to taking Rome, he was able proudly to contrast Goth and Greek behavior in his initial negotiations with the senate.

Despite being the second highest-ranking office in California, the Lieutenant Governor has no real responsibility or power to represent the governor on issues such as trade negotiations or a legislative agenda ( i. e. in contrast to its powerful counterpart in Texas ), so the job has been jokingly defined by political insiders as " get up, read the paper, see if the governor is dead, if not, go back to sleep.

By contrast, a fostering strategy generally involves taking an " integrative " or win-win approach to the negotiations, combined with a " consensus " approach to internal relations in both sides, and an attitudinal approach that emphasizes openness and understanding.

In contrast to the item-by-item negotiations of previous GATT rounds, many countries offered across-the-board cuts of a certain percentage on all tariffs of participating countries.

Land movement around the New Madrid is reported to be no more than a year, in contrast to the San Andreas Fault which averages up to a year across California.

Among his numerous remaining works may be mentioned Las harpías en Madrid ( 1633 ), Fiestas del Jardín ( 1634 ), Los Alivios de Casandra ( 1640 ) and the posthumous Quinta de Laurel ( 1649 ); the witty observation of these books forms a singular contrast to the prim devotion of his Sagrario de Valencia ( 1635 ).

The Casa del Obispo Madrid, in contrast, is a simple adobe structure from 1631, which was the property of Bishop Fernández de Madrid.

and, in contrast, are present to a relatively immense degree on a segmental basis in the dog where lobules are absent ( Van Allen and Lindskog, '31 ).

In contrast to " rhizopods ", where most of their morphologies can be mapped to modern classification systems, " actinopods " appear to be extensively polyphyletic.

The outside of the skin is shed periodically more or less in one piece in contrast to mammals and birds where it is shed in flakes.

This is in contrast to an insertion where a rotation resulting in a balance factor of 0 indicated that the subtree's height has remained unchanged.

So, according to Obadiah there will not remain even a remnant after Edom ’ s judgment ; This is in contrast to Amos 9: 12, where Amos refers to such a remnant, however, it is stated that their possession will be given to Israel.

By contrast most of the party's seats were won either due to the absence of a candidate from one of the other parties or in rural areas on the " Celtic fringe ", where local evidence suggests that economic ideas were at best peripheral to the electorate's concerns.

In contrast, a submergent coastline is one where the sea level has risen, due to a global sea level change, local subsidence, or isostatic rebound.

By contrast, in civil law jurisdictions ( the legal tradition that prevails in, or is combined with common law in, Europe and most non-Islamic, non-common law countries ), courts lack authority to act where there is no statute, and judicial precedent is given less interpretive weight ( which means that a judge deciding a given case has more freedom to interpret the text of a statute independently, and less predictably ), and scholarly literature is given more.

Lewis followed the legacy of such comedians as Keaton and Harold Lloyd, but his work was not well received by critics in the United States ( in contrast to France where he proved highly popular.

This barrier is in contrast to iron or plain carbon steels, where the oxygen migrates into the underlying material and causes rusting.

* Sport climbing is a form of rock climbing that relies on permanent anchors fixed to the rock, and possibly bolts, for protection, ( in contrast with traditional climbing, where the rock is typically devoid of fixed anchors and bolts, and where climbers must place removable protection as they climb ).

Planned economies are in contrast to unplanned economies, i. e. the market economy and proposed self-managed economy, where production, distribution, pricing, and investment decisions are made by autonomous firms based upon their individual interests rather than upon a macroeconomic plan.

In contrast to other common law nations, Australian double jeopardy law has been held to extend to the prevention of prosecution for perjury following a previous acquittal where a finding of perjury would controvert the previous acquittal.

In a bitheistic system, by contrast, where the two deities are not in conflict or opposition, one could be male and the other female ( cf.

The term " low ceiling diuretic " is used to indicate that a diuretic has a rapidly flattening dose effect curve ( in contrast to " high ceiling ", where the relationship is close to linear ).

In contrast, chemical reactions where electrons are transferred between molecules are called oxidation / reduction ( redox ) reactions.

This is in contrast to later versions, where Excalibur belongs solely to the king.

This is in contrast to an interval estimator, where the result would be a range of plausible values ( or vectors or functions ).

By contrast it was continually read and taught in the Greek-speaking Eastern Roman Empire where the majority of the classics also survived.

This development was in contrast to pre-Islamic societies where rules of inheritance varied considerably.

This is in stark contrast to the media climate prior to the 20th century, where the media market was dominated by smaller newspapers and pamphleteers who usually had an overt and often radical agenda, with no presumption of balance or objectivity.

In contrast where there is a decision by a judge or a bench, they are required to give often detailed reason of both fact and law as to why such a decision is given.

This is in direct contrast to Muay Thai, where the use of elbows and knees are allowed.

In contrast, killer whales are seasonal summer visitors to Arctic waters, where they do not approach the ice pack.