His personality appears more striking by contrast with Marina, who is -- perhaps purposely -- rather superficially characterized.

Armored Cataphracts began to be deployed in eastern Europe and the near East, following the precedents established by Persian forces, as the main striking force of the armies in contrast to the earlier roles of cavalry as scouts, raiders, and outflankers.

By contrast, the " Verb of Similarity " ( فعل المضارع, fi ' l al-mudaara ' ah ), so called because of its resemblance to the active participial noun, is considered to denote an event in the present or future without committing to a specific aspectual sense beyond the incompleteness implied by the tense: يضرب " yadribu ", he strikes / is striking / will strike / etc.

Lebanon established its own army made up of volunteer militias ; " the free independent bearing of these mountaineers was in striking contrast to that of the underpaid, underfed and poorly clothed conscripts of the regular army ".

In contrast to the rest of Saudi Arabia, and particularly Nejd, Mecca has, according to the New York Times, become " a striking oasis " of free thought and discussion and, also, of " unlikely liberalism " as " Meccans see themselves as a bulwark against the creeping extremism that has overtaken much Islamic debate ".

His family worked as sharecroppers as did most of the people of Sotto il Monte – a striking contrast to that of his predecessor, Eugenio Pacelli ( Pope Pius XII ), who came from an ancient aristocratic family, long connected to the Papacy.

There was a striking contrast with Japan, where Edo ( Tokyo ) had as many as 1 million inhabitants and the urban population comprised as much as 10 % to 15 % of the total during the Tokugawa Period ( 1600 – 1868 ).

The most striking feature of the climate is the contrast.

The surface of the cerebellum is covered with finely spaced parallel grooves, in striking contrast to the broad irregular convolutions of the cerebral cortex.

The brighter yellow star ( actually itself a very close binary system ) makes a striking colour contrast with its fainter blue companion star.

In contrast to grappling martial arts this will allow one to use striking techniques such as punching, elbowing, eye gouging, kicks and groin attack on the ground.

It is Milo's sudden death which makes him most akin to the heroes: there is a hint of hubris in his attempt to rend the tree asunder, and striking contrast between his glorious athletic achievements and his sudden ignoble death.

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.

The ridges which ramify from the Paramera are covered with valuable forests of beeches, oaks and firs, presenting a striking contrast to the bare peaks of the Sierra de Gredos.

Nonetheless, Ball's striking beauty was in sharp contrast to physical antics she did in her films ; thus, MGM tried to use her in an array of different film genres that did little to highlight her skills.

The encaustic images are striking because of the contrast between vivid and rich colours, and comparatively large brush-strokes, producing an " Impressionistic " effect.

While black did not suit eighteen-year-old Helene's dark coloring, it made her younger sister's blonder looks more striking by contrast.

An extraordinarily slow-moving variation consisting almost entirely of dotted whole notes in low registers – a striking contrast with the variations immediately before and after.

This examination is, in two respects, in striking contrast to that of certain other Neoplatonist writers.

In striking contrast to Plato's use of idea is that of John Locke.

Martin Kramer writes that in Islamic tradition, in striking contrast with the Christian concept of the eternal Jew, the contemporary Jews were not presented as archetypes — as the embodiment of Jews in all times and places.

The imperturbable courtesy of his style is in striking contrast to the violence of his opponents ; and, in spite of his unorthodoxy, he was not an atheist or even an agnostic.

In this respect Mazanderan furnishes a striking contrast to the waste and barren shores of southern Persia, where for many hundred miles there is not a stream to be met with deep enough to take a horse above the knee.

But the contrast, at this crisis, between his self-sacrificing patriotism and the treachery of the Russophil aristocracy was so striking that, when the Riksdag assembled, Gustav found that the three lower estates were ultra-royalist, and with their aid he succeeded, not without running great risks in crushing the opposition of the nobility by a second coup d ' état on February 16, 1789 and passing the famous Act of Union and Security which gave the king an absolutely free hand as regards foreign affairs and the command of the army, and made further treason impossible.

His style in it, as elsewhere, is in striking contrast to that of the typical classical scholar, and accords with his conviction that the true aim of scholarship is " that which is.

Naveh states, " The striking feature of the blitzkrieg concept is the complete absence of a coherent theory which should have served as the general cognitive basis for the actual conduct of operations ".

But the striking fact which, in spite of their occurrence, disproved the conspiracy theory is that few of these conspiracies are ultimately successful.

The source of Einstein's proposal that light was composed of particles ( or could act as particles in some circumstances ) was an experimental anomaly not explained by the wave theory was the photoelectric effect, by which light striking a metal surface ejected electrons from the surface, causing an electric current to flow across an applied voltage.

The Kaluza – Klein theory is striking because it has a particularly elegant presentation in terms of geometry.

While Babylonian number theory — or what survives of Babylonian mathematics that can be called thus — consists of this single, striking fragment, Babylonian algebra ( in the secondary-school sense of " algebra ") was exceptionally well developed.

This striking formula is one of the so-called explicit formulas of number theory, and is already suggestive of the result we wish to prove, since the term x ( claimed to be the correct asymptotic order of ) appears on the right-hand side, followed by ( presumably ) lower-order asymptotic terms.

This theory – that judges were the natural arbiters of the law – is known as the " appeal to reason ", with " reason " referring not to rationality but the method and logic used by judges in upholding and striking down laws.

So striking are the differences between the different periods of the Ellery Queen character that Julian Symons advanced the theory that there were two " Ellery Queens " — an older and younger brother.

One of the most striking characteristics of Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy is the key role of the epistemological grounding position of Gestalt theory ( critical realism ) and its applicability to the fundamental, theoretical and practical problems in psychotherapy.

The image is inverted at the focal point before striking the retina, but which has no bearing on the theory.

The determination of such numbers is a special case of the class number problem, and they underlie several striking results in number theory.

A fringe theory links together several major fires that occurred simultaneously in America, including the Great Chicago Fire and the Peshtigo Fire, claiming that they were caused by fragments of Biela's Comet striking the Earth.

The pieces were struck in numbers exceeding those needed for circulation ; a Mint spokesman stated, " The theory in striking them was to have enough available so as many Americans as possible would have an opportunity to have a coinage commemoration of the Bicentennial year.

: There is a striking affinity between the symbolism of Sefer HaBahir, on the one hand, and the speculations of the Gnostics, and the theory of the " aeons ," on the other.

The most striking application of the theory is Hawking's prediction that Schwarzschild black holes radiate with a thermal spectrum.

In order to explain the difference between theory and experiment, the two striking balls must have at least 20 microns separation ( given steel, 100 g, and 1 m / s ).

Deane ( 1996: 56 ) commented that “ rom a cognitive perspective, Talmy ’ s theory is a striking example of a psychologically plausible theory of causation.

He notes a number of striking similarities in shape and form between the late Harappan characters and the Phoenician letters, arguing than the Phoenician script evolved from the Harappan script, challenging the classical theory that the first alphabet was Proto-Sinaitic.

The book details Maeda's theory that physical combat could be broken down into distinct phases, such as the striking phase, the grappling phase, the ground phase, and so on.

In formulating a number of striking conjectures, he pointed out the possible existence of parallels between the Nevanlinna theory of complex analysis, and diophantine analysis.

[...] It is a striking fact that there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever for this complex and unattractive conjectural theory.

: I will argue that the whole of Althusser's theory is made up of the following elements: 1. common sense banalities expressed with the help of unnecessarily complicated neologisms ; 2. traditional Marxist concepts that are vague and ambiguous in Marx himself ( or in Engels ) and which remain, after Althusser's explanation, exactly as vague and ambiguous as they were before ; 3. some striking historical inexactitudes.

The Court also offered an alternative basis for striking down the provision: it violated the constitutional separation of powers by robbing the president of his power to execute the laws ; that is, it contradicted the " unitary executive theory ".