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By contrast, in a non-inertial reference frame the laws of physics vary depending on the acceleration of that frame with respect to an inertial frame, and the usual physical forces must be supplemented by fictitious forces.
However, there is also research suggesting that people are often helped by extended families and supportive religious leaders who listen with kindness and respect, which can often contrast with usual practice in psychiatric diagnosis and medication.
The temporary nature of projects stands in contrast with business as usual ( or operations ), which are repetitive, permanent, or semi-permanent functional activities to produce products or services.
The word Prakrit itself has a flexible definition, being defined sometimes as " original, natural, artless, normal, ordinary, usual ", or " vernacular ", in contrast to the literary and religious orthodoxy of Sanskrit.
In contrast, a non-real-time system is one that cannot guarantee a response time in any situation, even if a fast response is the usual result.
In contrast to the usual thermodynamic variables, ' internal variables ' cannot be controlled by external manipulations.
Similarly, the manual for the ORCA / M assembler refers to a field indicating the order of the bytes in a number field as, and the Mac OS X operating system refers to " byte sex " in its compiler tools .</ ref > The usual contrast is whether the most significant or least significant byte is ordered first — i. e., at the lowest byte address — within the larger data item.
The usual wax color was aniline purple, a cheap, moderately durable pigment that provided good contrast, though other colors were also available.
Xenophon, in contrast, relates that the entire Athenian fleet came out as usual on the day of the battle, and Lysander remained in the harbor.
In contrast, people with DSPD are unable to fall asleep before their usual sleep time, even if they are sleep-deprived.
However, this version differs significantly from comic book versions of the character, being neither unintelligent nor " backwards ", and appearing as a perfect duplicate under most circumstances ( though he wore a blue jacket and red T-shirt, in contrast to Clark's usual red jacket and blue T-shirt ).
The usual wax color was aniline purple, a cheap, moderately durable pigment that provided good contrast, but masters were also manufactured in red, green, blue, black, and the hard-to-find orange, yellow, and brown.
( This is in marked contrast to the usual practice of making alien races longer-lived than humans.
Throughout the centuries, except for the initiated, most of the Japanese common folk knew little about its secretive doctrines and the monks of this " Mantra School " except that besides performing the usual priestly duties of prayers, blessings and funeral rites for the public, they practiced only Mikkyō ( 密教 ), literally " secret ways " in stark contrast to all other Buddhist schools and were called upon to perform mystical rituals that could summon rain, improve harvests, exorcise demons, avert natural disasters, heal the sick and protect the state.
Either way, the sentiment was meant to set up an ironic contrast between the shadow of death and the usual idle merriment that the nymphs and swains of ancient Arcadia were thought to embody.
During 1970s the team played in front of a packed stadium during the annual Boxing Day Barbarians event ( in contrast with the usual 750 – 2, 000 spectators ).
In contrast to the troubles faced during this period by other colonial governors, Hopetoun by most accounts handled this period ably and subsequently stayed in office for longer than the usual term.
* In the Cornsweet illusion, the region adjacent to the light part of the edge appears lighter, and the region adjacent to the dark part of the edge appears darker, just the opposite of the usual contrast effects.
The piece contains four movements, a structure often used by Beethoven, and imitated by contemporaries such as Schubert, in contrast to the more usual three or two movements of Mozart and Haydn sonatas.
It should be pointed out here that these different perspectives contrast with the usual way of presenting collocation in phraseological studies.
* A reference to a menu of items priced and ordered separately, i. e. the usual operation of restaurants ( In contrast to a table d ' hôte, at which a menu with limited or no choice is served at a fixed price.
The piece was composed in the course of one month, in stark contrast to Balakirev's usual habit of taking sometimes years to complete a work.
In contrast to the usual construction of such lattice-steel transmission towers, the direction of the line passes diagonally over the square ground cross section of the pylon, resulting in savings in material.
Parish churches often have a characteristic tall, narrow castellated tower, in contrast with usual towerless Welsh design.
In contrast with the usual sudden-death procedure of awarding the victory to the next side to score, tennis and volleyball require that the margin of victory be two.

contrast and official
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.
In contrast to the official negotiations in Madrid, where actual meetings between the delegations were often limited to a few hours a day, the Israeli and Palestinian delegations in Norway were usually accommodated in the same residence, they had breakfast, lunch and dinner at the same table, resulting in mutual respect and close friendships.
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.

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