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In contrast, two eggs is typical for many tropical species, since the chicks can be provided with better care, and the adults are likely to have further opportunities for reproduction.
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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.
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.
This contrast appears to be shown on the two sides of the Borghese Vase.
Chinese languages treat these two phones differently ; for example in Mandarin, ( written b in Pinyin ) and ( written p ) contrast phonemically.
Dynamically built PVPs ( soft PVPs or SPVPs ) and PVCs ( soft PVCs or SPVCs ), in contrast, are built by specifying the characteristics of the circuit ( the service " contract ") and the two end points.
There are additional inefficiencies arising from the highly fragmented nature of the municipal bond market which has two million outstanding issues and 50, 000 issuers in contrast to the Treasury market which has 400 issues and a single issuer.
Ultimately, the French army and nation collapsed after barely two months of mobile operations, in contrast to the four years of trench warfare of the First World War.
In the most common usage, β strand refers to a single continuous stretch of amino acids adopting an extended conformation and involved in backbone hydrogen bonds to at least one other strand ; by contrast, a β sheet refers to an assembly of at least two such β strands that are hydrogen-bonded ( or H-bonded ) to each other.
The term " common law " ( connotation 2 ) is often used as a contrast to Roman-derived " civil law ", and the fundamental processes and forms of reasoning in the two are quite different.
By contrast, peer-to-peer networks involve two or more computers pooling individual resources such as disk drives, CD-ROMs and printers.
In contrast, the basic definition of " whisky " in the United States has no specific aging duration requirements for whiskey, except for whiskey labelled as " straight " ( which must be aged for at least two years ).
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.
Diesel spent two more years making improvements and in 1896 demonstrated another model with a theoretical efficiency of 75 percent, in contrast to the 10 percent efficiency of the steam engine.
By contrast, nouns have no distinct nominative and objective forms, the two being merged into a single plain case.
By contrast, the Gemini capsule's avionics were designed so the cabin could be exposed to the vacuum of space when one of two large hatches was opened, so no airlock was required, and both the spacewalking astronaut and his companion command pilot were in vacuum during the EVA.
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 ).
; trans: A trans configuration, by contrast, means that the next two hydrogen atoms are bound to opposite sides of the double bond.
Similarly, release print stocks usually are available only in two varieties: a " normal " print or a deluxe print ( on more-costly print film like Kodak Vision Premiere ) with slightly greater saturation and contrast.
Generally, the two are complementary, but occasionally the difference has been exploited to provide contrast.
The three sides of the beams visible from the playing field must be painted alternatingly in two contrasting colors which both have to contrast against the background.
The helion, the nucleus of a helium-3 atom, consists of two protons but only one neutron, in contrast with two neutrons in common helium.
HAL is voiced by Douglas Rain in the two film adaptations of the Space Odyssey saga, and speaks in a soft, calm voice and a conversational manner, in contrast to the crewmen, David Bowman and Frank Poole, who speak tersely and with little emotional inflection.
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.
In contrast, specific years pertaining to dates were identified by naming two consuls, who entered office on May 1 and March 15 until 153 BC, when they began to enter office on January 1.
contrast and eggs
In contrast, fish such as splitfins and halfbeaks are viviparous, with the eggs receiving food from the maternal blood supply through structures analogous to the placenta of placental mammals.
In contrast, bird eggs contain enough to supply the chick with nutriment throughout the whole period of incubation.
In contrast, a batch of Aedes eggs in diapause tends to hatch irregularly over an extended period of time.
In contrast, some mosquitoes, for example, many Culex, are partially anautogenous ; they do not need a blood meal for their first cycle of egg production, which they produce autogenously ; however, subsequent clutches of eggs are produced anautogenously, at which point their disease vectoring activity becomes operative.
Most passerines lay coloured eggs, in contrast with non-passerines, most of whose eggs are white except in some ground-nesting groups such as Charadriiformes and nightjars, where camouflage is necessary, and some parasitic cuckoos, which match the passerine host's egg.
Amphibians must return to water to lay eggs, in contrast, reptiles-whose amniote eggs have a membrane ensuring gas exchange out of water and can therefore be laid on land-were better adapted to the new conditions.
This is in contrast to the pythons, which all lay eggs ( oviparous ).
Decorations on emu eggs take advantage of the contrast in colours between the dark green mottled outside of the shell and the shell-underlay.
It nearly always lays its eggs on Milk Parsley ( Peucedanum palustre ) in contrast to its European cousin that will select most umbellifers.
Cuckoos that target Dunnock nests lay white, brown-speckled eggs, in contrast to the Dunnock's own blue eggs.
In contrast, eggs associated with Oviraptor are only up to 14 cm long.
They are so named because the female has two distinct sexual openings: one for mating, and the other for laying eggs ( in contrast to the Monotrysia ).
Hot boiled potatoes, cold sour cream, and diced hard-boiled eggs are often served alongside to add color, texture, and thermal contrast.
They lay adhesive eggs and do not guard them ; this is in contrast to many other loricariids where the male builds a nest and guards the eggs.
In such civilian old traditional usage, only captains aboard ships and pilots in command ( airlines captains ) in service aboard aircraft, have the golden oak leaf motifs (" scrambled eggs ") on the visor ; this is in contrast to the naval tradition, where it is also worn by Commanders ( one rank below Captain ) as well as by Commodores and Flag Officers.
contrast and is
When Heidegger and Sartre speak of a contrast between being and existence, they may be right, I don't know, but their language is too philosophical for me.
The cyclist, by contrast, blond and blue-eyed, is simply unreflective, unproblematic Life, `` blithe and carefree ''.
For both Plato and Aristotle artistic mimesis, in contrast to the power of dialectic, is relatively incapable of expressing the character of fundamental reality.
The short poems grouped at the end of the volume as `` Thoughts in Loneliness '' is, as Professor Book indicated, in sharp contrast with the others.
In this respect, his approach to poetry-and-jazz is in marked contrast to Kenneth Rexroth's.
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.
Built upon seven hills, Istanbul, like Rome, is one of the most ancient cities in the world, filled with splendor and contrast.
It is an exotic place, so different from the ordinary that the casual tourist is likely to see at first only the contrast and the ugliness of narrow streets lined with haphazard houses.
and that the maximum of the radio emission came about 3-1/2 days after Full Moon, which is again in contrast to the infrared emission, which reaches its maximum at Full Moon.
The interaction effect, which is significant at the level, can be seen best in the contrast of mean scores.
Where there is comparison or contrast, dominant stresses normally operate to center attention.
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.
Perhaps one way to sharpen our sense of the modernity of Utopian communism is to contrast it with the principal earlier types of communistic theory.
In contrast to this Stoic-patristic view, Utopia implies that the nature of man is such that to rely on individual conscience to supply the deficiencies of municipal law is to embark on the bottomless sea of human sinfulness in a sieve.
And the surface is driven back, in its very surfaceness, only by this contrast.
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.
His personality appears more striking by contrast with Marina, who is -- perhaps purposely -- rather superficially characterized.
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.
Pip imagines how Estella would look down upon Joe's hands, roughened by work in the smithy, and the deliberate contrast between her white hands and his blackened ones is made to symbolize the opposition of values between which Pip struggles -- idleness and work, artificiality and naturalness, gentility and commonness, coldness and affection -- in fact, between Satis House and the forge.
Today, by contrast it is a lively and colorful fruit, vegetable, and flower market.
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