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

In contrast, the spoken languages of the Han Chinese are usually referred to as dialects of one Chinese language despite their vast differences.

In contrast, the 2007 Micropædia has roughly 65, 000 articles, the vast majority ( about 97 %) of which contain fewer than 750 words, no references, and no named contributors.

In contrast to the Freudian school's individualistic style of analysis, this practice studied the dynamics of several subjects in complex interaction ; it led Guattari into a broader philosophical exploration of, and political engagement with, a vast array of intellectual and cultural domains ( philosophy, ethnology, linguistics, architecture, etc.

Palaces in East Asia, such as the imperial palaces of Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan, largebrick and wooden structures in Philippines and China's Forbidden City, consist of many low pavilions surrounded by vast, walled gardens, in contrast to the single building palaces of Medieval Western Europe.

In contrast to the popular conception of Chinese as a primarily pictographic or ideographic language, the vast majority of Chinese characters ( about 95 percent of the characters in the Shuowen Jiezi ) are constructed as either logical aggregates or, more often, phonetic complexes.

The vast contrast between home life and school life, however, begins to show as these teens struggle to find the balance between what other adults and especially their parents expect of them and the goals and ambitions they hold for themselves.

Thomas Fortune Ryan's riches were in vast contrast with his humble beginnings in rural Nelson County, Virginia.

By contrast, dry ginger ale is produced on a vast scale internationally.

In contrast many hydroelectric projects are of enormous size, such as the generating plant at the Hoover Dam of 2, 074 MW or the vast multiple projects of the Tennessee Valley Authority.

In contrast to Nur ad-Din's respectful reaction to the death of Baldwin III, Amalric I immediately besieged Banias upon learning of the emir's death, and extorted a vast amount of money from his widow.

The downside was his inexperience in foreign affairs, standing in stark contrast to the vast experience of the president he replaced.

In contrast to 21st-century society prior to the novel's " Introdus " event, the vast profusion of qualitatively different types of fleshers has made any sort of global civilisation impossible.

In contrast to Huntingdon, there have been vast amounts of archaeological finds in the centre of Godmanchester, which has two conservation areas with a large number of timber-framed Tudor houses, the largest being Tudor Farm, dating from 1600 and restored in 1995.

In 2003, 9, 500 reservists, the vast majority of them from the TA, were mobilised to take part in Operation Telic, the invasion of Iraq, in contrast only some 420 Regular Reservists were called-up.

In contrast the western shore includes vast acres of sand and trails without life guards or rest rooms.

The film was shot in black-and-white on Paramount sound stages, which was quite a contrast with Ford's other films of the period such as The Searchers which included vast western exteriors and color photography.

This came into direct contrast with the previous leadership who some five years previously had organised the plebiscite of 1950, where the vast majority of Greek Cypriots who voted were for the union with Greece ( 98 %).

In 1856, Augustus Gregory passed through the area noting that the landscape was a vast plain lacking vegetation in contrast to Mitchell's description of good country.

In contrast to technological Diaspar, Lys is a vast green oasis shielded by mountains from the worldwide desert.

In contrast to the tradition, Beethoven uses the entire instrumentation of the orchestra and, consequently, displays a vast spectrum of sound in this movement which, as well, is composed in sonata form.

This is in contrast to the transmission of digital information such as is found in DNA sequences, which accounts for the vast majority of known genetic variation.

This unique layout is a vast contrast to many of its contemporaries, which have their revenue-generating luxury boxes and club seats located in the ' belly ' of the arena, thus causing the upper deck to be 2 – 4 stories higher.

By contrast, the vast majority of aid ascents are done on popular free climbs which are too difficult for the aid party to free, but offer excellent gear placements.

In contrast, Chapter 7 governs the process of a liquidation bankruptcy ( although liquidation can go under this chapter ), while Chapter 13 provides a reorganization process for the majority of private individuals.

Occupations in which women predominated, such as those of retail and office personnel, were poorly paid in contrast to those in which men constituted the majority.

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

The President, Prime Minister and Ministers of the region are elected by simple majority, in contrast to the Iraqi Council of Representatives which requires two thirds support.

The success of the De Leonist plan depends on achieving majority support among the people both in the workplaces and at the polls, in contrast to the Leninist notion that a small vanguard party should lead the working class to carry out the revolution.

Physical chemistry, in contrast to chemical physics, is predominantly ( but not always ) a macroscopic or supra-molecular science, as the majority of the principles on which physical chemistry was founded, are concepts related to the bulk rather than on molecular / atomic structure alone.

Nevertheless, the majority of the population – about 75 percent — is employed in subsistence agriculture on Swazi Nation Land ( SNL ), which, in contrast, suffers from low productivity and investment.

The previous ABC affiliate, KTVI, in contrast, was one of the strongest affiliates-it had become a Fox station in 1995, and thus, has televised the majority of the Rams ' games in this period.

In order for his imaginary languages to have this type of depth, Barker developed entire cultures, histories, dress fashions, architectural styles, weapons, armor, tactical styles, legal codes, demographics and more, inspired by Indian, Middle Eastern, Egyptian and Meso-American mythology in contrast to the majority of such fantasy settings, which draw primarily on European mythologies.

By contrast, he thought the United States required greater compromise because of the diversity of public opinion and the difficulty of forming a majority opinion.

This is in contrast to the practice in most states and the federal government, which require a two-thirds majority in both houses to override a governor's veto.

In contrast to President Abraham Lincoln's more lenient Ten Percent Plan, the bill made re-admittance to the Union for former Confederate states contingent on a majority in each Southern state to take the Ironclad oath to the effect they had never in the past supported the Confederacy.

By contrast, the only period in recent times during which the government of the day has had a majority in the Senate was from July 2005 ( following the 2004 election ) to December 2007 ( following the Coalition's defeat at the federal election that year ).

By contrast, the Europeans considered the majority Hutu to be characteristic Bantu people of Central African origin.

In contrast to the Baltic Germans, the ethnic majority of Estonians and Latvians had restricted rights and privileges and resided mostly in rural areas as serfs, tradesmen, or as servants in urban homes.

Many of these immigrants were from northern Italy, in contrast to the majority of Italian immigrants to America during this same time period that hailed from southern Italy.

In contrast to marginally effective and not-often-used RHSBLs, URI DNSBLs are very effective and are used by the majority of spam filters.

Despite the majority of contemporaneous scholars and writers agreeing that Peter was the true author of the Crusade and that its aims became corrupted and violent over time in contrast to the purer and mostly non-violent People's Crusade, most recent scholars such as Jonathan Riley-Smith consider such views as an excellent instance of the legendary amplification of the First Crusade — an amplification which, beginning during the crusade itself, in the " idolizations " of the different camps ( idola castrorum, if one may pervert Bacon ), soon developed into a regular saga.

In contrast to the Second Congress, the Mensheviks were in the majority from start to finish ; yet, Martov's definition of a party member, which had prevailed at the First Congress, was replaced by Lenin's.

Chinese writers who spoke other dialects had to use the grammar and vocabulary of Jianghuai and Beijing Mandarin in order for the majority of Chinese to understand their writing ; by contrast, Chinese who did not speak southern dialects would not be able to understand a Southern dialect's writing.

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 Dilbert principle, by contrast, assumes that hierarchy just serves as a means for removing the incompetent to " higher " positions where they will be unable to cause damage to the workflow, assuming that the upper echelons of an organization have little relevance to its actual production, and that the majority of real, productive work in a company is done by people lower in the power ladder.

In contrast to most of the University, and indeed the regency estate at the college's centre, the majority of the buildings are of modern design.