The principals stood in stark contrast both physically and politically.

By the standards of 19th century tycoons, Carnegie was not a particularly ruthless man but a humanitarian with enough acquisitiveness to go in the ruthless pursuit of money ; on the other hand, the contrast between his life and the lives of many of his own workers and of the poor, in general, was stark.

Among the provinces, British Columbia has been distinguished by its strong liberal views ( in stark contrast to the other provinces west of Ontario ).

In stark contrast with its SSI and MSI predecessors, the first LSI implementation of the PDP-11 contained a CPU composed of only four LSI integrated circuits.

This led to very good coverage across most of the country and few problems of interference with other UK-based transmissions ; a stark contrast to the problems associated with Channel 5's launch fourteen and a half years later.

The valley of desolation is a sulfurous valley of volcanic vents and hot springs that inhibits significant plant growth-in stark contrast to the surrounding rain forest.

It is said that the rivalry was fueled in the 1970s due to the stark contrast of the teams: the Cowboys, being more of a " flashy " team with Roger Staubach's aerial attack and the " flex " Doomsday Defense ; while the Steelers were more of a " blue-collar " team with a strong running game and the 1970s-esque Steel Curtain defense, a contrast that still exists today.

His disciplinarian regime was a stark contrast to the indulgent Florentine Court of Leopold.

Heidi Schiller, joined by her younger counterpart, performs " One More Kiss ", her aged voice a stark contrast to the sparkling coloratura of her younger self.

Schmidt's private life was in stark contrast to the success of his distinguished professional career, and was overshadowed by tragedy.

He was critical of modern philosophy for its lack of progress, which he believed was in stark contrast to the dramatic advances in the natural sciences since the Renaissance.

His nobility is shown in stark contrast to the deceit and pridefulness of the Greeks, especially Achilles.

However another study, had observed that pusher syndrome is also present in patients with left hemisphere lesions, leading to aphasia, providing a stark contrast to what was previously believed regarding hemispatial neglect, which mostly occurs with a right hemisphere lesion.

In stark contrast to earlier opulence, William Poel's 1881 production of the Q1 text was an early attempt at reconstructing the Elizabethan theatre's austerity ; his only backdrop was a set of red curtains.

This points to a strong, long-term selective pressure that, in stark contrast to most other regions of the genomes of sub-Saharan groups, left little room for genetic variation at the determining loci.

His embrace of egoism is in stark contrast to Godwin's altruism.

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.

This was in stark contrast to the stiff representations of birds by his contemporaries, such as Alexander Wilson.

To Lovelock, the stark contrast between the Martian atmosphere and chemically dynamic mixture of that of our Earth's biosphere was strongly indicative of the absence of life on the planet.

This role was in stark contrast to his appearance in the lighthearted romantic comedy, Picture Perfect the following year.

In stark contrast, she is portrayed as a scheming, duplicitous traitor in Gary Jennings ' novel Aztec.

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 stark contrast to its predecessor, Huevos was recorded in a swift, fiery fashion, with many first takes, and minimal second guessing.

This explanation for the radical stylistic shift c. 1520 has fallen out of scholarly favor, though the early Mannerists are still set in stark contrast to High Renaissance conventions ; the immediacy and balance achieved by Raphael's School of Athens, no longer seemed interesting to young artists.

As well as this, there were continued rumours of discontent among his backbenchers, not dampened by his warning to his party in November 2002: " My message is simple and stark, unite or die ".

1860 was a critical election that marked a stark change in existing patterns of party loyalties among groups of voters ; Abraham Lincoln's election was a watershed in the balance of power of competing national and parochial interests and affiliations.

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.

In both cases the magical elements are barely rationalized, and in Lewis ' case stand in stark contrast to the pseudo-scientific machinery that frames the story.

The Mavericks have won 50 or more regular season games in 11 consecutive seasons, dating back to 2001 — a stark contrast ( and almost diametrically opposed ) to the 10-season streak of losing seasons from the 1990 – 91 to the 1999 – 2000 season.

The New Art Gallery's stark building won several architectural awards and attracted over 237, 000 visitors in its opening year.

The government won only a third of all divisions in the Legislative Council, and this is in stark contrast to treatment of the Wilson governments before and after Scaddan's government, who never lost a single bill in the upper house.

With its stark contrasts between prosperity and deprivation, the constituency should have been highly competitive marginal between the Conservative Party and Labour Party in an even year, although for the three general elections of its existence it was won firmly by Labour.

Couse's elegant, understated door — stark black, framed in cream white with a bold white " 10 " clearly visible — was the perfect backdrop to record such events ( see Section 2. 1 below ).

There they stand, millions of ghostly firs, now stark against the sky, which were green as the sea and twice as handsome, until an August day of 1933, when a tiny spark blew into a hurricane of fire that removed all life from 300, 000 acres ( 1, 200 km² ) of the finest timber even seen.

In the second round they lost to Spain 1 – 0 and were knocked out having failed to score in three of their four World Cup matches – in stark contrast to the deluge of goals scored against the North Koreans.

Parliaments represent a small market, making up only 1. 7 % in Philip Morris sales figures, in stark contrast to the corporation's leading seller, Marlboros, which represent 41. 1 % of all Philip Morris sales.

The near non-stop music format, using a strap line " never more than a minute away from music " was in stark contrast to the 50 % speech mandate imposed on the UK's commercial radio at the time, and the similar proportion of talk on BBC Radio 1.

This is in stark contrast to C < sup > k </ sup > maps, where there are meaningful differences for different k. For example, the Nash embedding theorem states that any manifold can be C < sup > k </ sup > isometrically embedded in Euclidean space R < sup > N </ sup > – for any 1 ≤ k ≤ ∞ there is a sufficiently large N, but N depends on k.

This is in stark contrast to the otherwise similar neighbouring Czech Republic, which is one of the least religious areas on Earth, with only 19 % declaring " they believe there is a God " of any kind.

On budget day, Finance Minister Brian Lenihan said that the General Government deficit would be 7 % of GDP in 2008, and would be kept to 6. 5 % ( or € 12bn ) in 2009 in stark contrast to a Government surplus of € 5. 2bn in 2006.

To be eligible to be elected it is necessary to be of Dutch nationality, to be over eighteen in age and not to have been excluded from the right to vote ( Article 56 ); there are also certain incompatibilities of function ( Article 57 ), the most important of which is that a minister not belonging to a demissionary cabinet cannot be a member of the States-General, a stark contrast with the situation in United Kingdom or Germany.

However, the North Dakota Constitution required a majority vote in each affected county subject to annexation, so the state of North Dakota sued stark county on the grounds that the enabling legislation was unconstitutional and that the " no " vote in Dunn County meant the annexation failed.