The Proto-Sinatic or Proto Canaanite script and the Ugaritic script were the first scripts with limited number of signs, in contrast to the other widely used writing systems at the time, Cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Linear B.

By contrast, the cursive developed out of the Nabataean alphabet in the same period soon became the standard for writing Arabic, evolving into the Arabic alphabet as it stood by the time of the early spread of Islam.

In contrast with modern basketball nets, this peach basket retained its bottom, and balls had to be retrieved manually after each " basket " or point scored ; this proved inefficient, however, so the bottom of the basket was removed, allowing the balls to be poked out with a long dowel each time.

Ten years later, Alexander Friedmann, a Russian cosmologist and mathematician, derived the Friedmann equations from Albert Einstein's equations of general relativity, showing that the Universe might be expanding in contrast to the static Universe model advocated by Einstein at that time.

The architecture of the new house is considered to be somewhat dated for its time, being similar in style to the demolished castle of the 1830s, in contrast to the richer forms of Scots Baronial being developed by William Burn and others during the 1850s.

In contrast, in non-common-law countries, and jurisdictions with very weak respect for precedent ( example, the U. S. Patent Office ), fine questions of law are redetermined anew each time they arise, making consistency and prediction more difficult, and procedures far more protracted than necessary because parties cannot rely on written statements of law as reliable guides.

By contrast, if M ( t ) denotes the amount of money in a bank account at time t, then the function jumps whenever money is deposited or withdrawn, so the function M ( t ) is discontinuous.

By contrast, time division multiple access ( TDMA ) divides access by time, while frequency-division multiple access ( FDMA ) divides it by frequency.

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.

On the other hand, CRT monitors have superior contrast, have superior response time, are able to use multiple screen resolutions natively, and there is no discernible flicker if the refresh rate is set to a sufficiently high value.

In contrast, Huston Smith, scholar of world religions, said of the Mitchell version, " This translation comes as close to being definitive for our time as any I can imagine.

In contrast, in genres that mainly or exclusively use pizzicato ( plucking ), such as jazz and blues, a great deal of time and effort is focused on learning the varieties of different pizzicato styles used for music of different styles of tempi.

In contrast to bosons, only one fermion can occupy a particular quantum state at any given time.

Faction Paradox itself is a counter to Time Lord society, dedicated to creating time-travel paradoxes, in contrast to the Time Lords ' web of time.

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.

The formal rule of the proportionally more numerous than in other European countries nobility constituted an early democratic system (" a sophisticated noble democracy "), in contrast to the absolute monarchies prevalent at that time in the rest of Europe.

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.

At the time of the Arab invasion in the middle of the 7th century, the Sasanian central power seemed already largely nominal in the province in contrast with the role of the Hephthalites tribal lords, who were settled in the Herat region and in the neighboring districts, mainly in pastoral Bādghis and in Qohestān.

In contrast to other IRC networks of the time, in 1995 DALnet implemented " services ", a system that enforced IRC nickname and channel registrations.

The weapon's disadvantage was the long time it took to reload a launcher, in contrast to conventional guns which could sustain a continuous low rate of fire.

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.

Rather than having a specific message for any of his films, Pyryev promoted Stalin ’ s slogan “ life has become better, life has become more joyous .” Sometimes this message was in stark contrast with the reality of the time.

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 this case, the contrast appears largely to be conveyed with a difference in the voice onset time of the initial consonant as the configuration of the mouth is the same for and ; however, there is also a possible difference in duration, which visual analysis using high quality video supports.

As a result, Schmeling sat anxious in the locker room prior to the bout ; in contrast, Louis took a two-hour nap.

A true university, like most successful marriages, is a unity of diversities Without forcing all components into a single pattern, the preparation of a master plan is an opportunity to consider interrelation of knowledge at its highest level, which a university -- in contrast to a multiversity -- should stand for.

Dark field can dramatically improve image contrast – especially of transparent objects – while requiring little equipment setup or sample preparation.

A Thai family meal will normally consist of rice with several dishes which form a harmonious contrast of ingredients and preparation methods.

By contrast Brzezinski was careful, in managing his own weekly luncheons with Secretaries Vance and Brown in preparation for NSC discussions, to maintain a complete set of careful notes.

In contrast, some zoos in Australia have a strong reliance on dedicated part-time volunteer workers, who assist zookeepers in the simpler tasks such as preparation of foods and medicines, and cleaning of animal enclosures.

In a great contrast of mood the preparation for the " Easter meal " ( Osterlamm ) is described (# 9 ) and the Passover meal itself, the Last Supper, foreshadowed by the announcement of betrayal.

Doctoral candidates, by contrast, may wish to concentrate more and work in close collaboration with faculty advisers to craft a slate of electives in preparation for qualifying examinations and the dissertation.

Taneyev, in contrast, thought musical creativity should be both deliberate and intellectual, with preliminary theoretical analysis and preparation of thematic materials.

Reprogenetics, by contrast, would be pursued by individual parents, who would be trying to improve their children with the same motivations that compel them to purchase expensive courses in preparation for standardized testing ( e. g. the SAT ).

In contrast to its next-door neighbors the group 11 elements, the element palladium in organic chemistry does not involve preparation of organopalladium compounds itself but rather organopalladium reactive intermediates.

Embryogenesis has also been studied, and the stages of development are easily identifiable with a phase contrast microscope following preparation of an egg mass squash.

Image contrast depends upon the quality of the optics, coatings on the lenses, and reduction of flare and glare ; but, it also requires proper specimen preparation and good etching techniques.

A Saenuri Party assemblyman Nam Gyeongpil criticized the Park-centered nature of the party, regarding its preparation for the 2012 presidential election, and stated, “ If we keep seeing the same situation where Park Geunhye gives a press conference before a general meeting of lawmakers is held, and what she says then gets decided on as the party ’ s position, then the public is going to think democracy has disappeared from the party ”, Furthermore, some have said Park ’ s behavior in the lead-up to 2012 presidential election has been a mixture of trend-following and corner-cutting — a stark contrast with the vehement insistence on principle that she showed when she opposed a revision of the plan for a multifunctional administrative city in Sejong City.

She also has the ability to be " rebuilt ," or otherwise " replaced " after her death, though her personality remains relatively stable in contrast with Oasis ' alternating bouts of insanity.

Whatever pole of this contrast one emphasizes and whatever the tension between these two approaches to understanding the artistic imagination, it will be readily seen that they are not mutually exclusive, that they belong together.

In contrast to all this, primary data are data of a self involved in environing processes and powers.

In contrast to cocktail parties, military organizations, even in the field, are more formal.

The limits are suggested by an imaginary experiment: contrast the perceptual skill of English professors with that of their colleagues in discriminating among motor cars, political candidates, or female beauty.

In contrast are the vast open stretches of ranch country and oil wells.

Even when they are finished, however, the contrast will remain, for Istanbul is the only city in the world that is built upon two continents.

i.e., burglars who rob while the tenants are absent, in contrast to hot-slough prowlers, those who work while the occupants are home.

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, 20 of the 21 lines in the Completion Profile ( excluding center 5 for boys and 4 for girls ) are bunched and extend over a much shorter period, approximately 30 months for boys and 40 months for girls.

The desire to contrast the first parts of words which are alike in their last components produces an exceptional disregard of the normal patterns of stress of Chinese and Japanese.

Their experience is quite in contrast with that of children of upper- and upper-middle-class native-born parents, who are more likely to regard education as good for its own sake and to discount the vocational emphases in the curriculum.

There was considerable contrast between this Mulligan performance and that of Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, who are able to generate a tremendous sound for such a small group.

To contrast with the more stereotyped descriptions, Christie often characterised the " foreigners " in such a way as to make the reader understand and sympathise with them ; this is particularly true of her Jewish characters, who are seldom actually criminals.

However, there is an interesting contrast between the belief that exposure of signs to a hearing infant will aid them in language development, whereas a deaf infant at times must show the inability to learn an oral language before they are taught sign language.

Birds of humid Andean forests include mountain-toucans, quetzals and the Andean Cock-of-the-rock, while mixed species flocks dominated by tanagers and Furnariids commonly are seen-in contrast to several vocal but typically cryptic species of wrens, tapaculos and antpittas.

In contrast to the elaborate stowage procedures for earlier anchors, stockless anchors are simply hauled up until they rest with the shank inside the hawsepipes, and the flukes against the hull ( or inside a recess in the hull ).

Each assembly language is specific to a particular computer architecture, in contrast to most high-level programming languages, which are generally portable across multiple systems.

The largest species are red alder ( A. rubra ) on the west coast of North America, and black alder ( A. glutinosa ), native to most of Europe and widely introduced elsewhere, both reaching over 30 m. By contrast, the widespread Alnus viridis ( green alder ) is rarely more than a 5 m tall shrub.

They are also thought to have pioneered the modern alto format of viola, in contrast to older tenor violas, but this stating is not correct since Gasparo made violas from altos of 39 to tenors of 44, 7 cm.

Machiavelli goes on to reason that Agathocles ' success, in contrast to other criminal tyrants, was due to his ability to mitigate his crimes by limiting them to those that " are applied at one blow and are necessary to one's security, and that are not persisted in afterwards unless they can be turned to the advantage of the subjects ".

In contrast with other continents, it is marked by the comparatively small area of either very high or very low ground, lands under occupying an unusually small part of the surface ; while not only are the highest elevations inferior to those of Asia or South America, but the area of land over is also quite insignificant, being represented almost entirely by individual peaks and mountain ranges.