In independent Armenia, environmental issues divide society ( and scientists ) sharply into those who fear " environmental time bombs " and those who view resumption of pollution-prone industrial operations as the only means of improving the country's economy.

The commitment we make by selecting one or another ontology can produce a sharply different view of the task at hand.

The most common view is that disorders tend to result from genetic dispositions and environmental stressors, combining to cause patterns of distress or dysfunction or, more sharply, trigger disorders ( Diathesis-stress model ).

The B-Team demonstrated that it was possible to construct a sharply different view of Soviet motivation from the consensus view of the analysts and one that provided a much closer fit to the Soviets ' observed behavior ( and also provided a much better forecast of subsequent behavior up to and through the invasion of Afghanistan ).

Although a number of songs show a sharply ironic and knowing view of working class life, no doubt a larger number were repetitive, derivative, written quickly and sung to make a living rather than a work of art.

He had long conceived the only way Britain could defeat France was in alliance with Austria, a view sharply at odds with many other leading thinkers of the era, including Walpole and Pitt.

It differs most fundamentally from the Clementsian view in suggesting a much greater role of chance factors and in denying the existence of coherent, sharply bounded community types.

The Salamander Letter presented a view of Latter Day Saint founder Joseph Smith's life that stood sharply at odds with the commonly accepted version of the early progression of the church Smith established.

( For a sharply different view of Stilicho, see Claudian.

Kant first describes it in his Critique of Pure Reason, and distinguished his view from contemporary views of realism and idealism, but philosophers do not agree how sharply Kant differs from each of these positions.

Although Eastman's view of the Soviet Union was sharply altered by his experiences there and by subsequent study, his commitment to left-wing political ideas continued unabated.

The right field fence angled away from the infield sharply which, in addition to a 30-foot fence ( to block the view from surrounding buildings ) about 8 feet inside the lower, outer wall, meant that relatively few home runs were hit at the stadium.

Ellul thus renovates in a non-legalistic manner the traditional Christian understanding of original sin and espouses a thoroughgoing pessimism about human capabilities, a view most sharply evidenced in his Meaning of the City ( see bibliography below ).

This point of view differs sharply from many French-speaking businessman and academics.

The political views of Drewermann have been sharply criticized by theologians Uwe Birnstein and Klaus-Peter Lehmann as being based on a traditional German antipolitical and romantic view and reducing all social aspects to individual fear and personal understanding and goodwill.

This view of the CCP contrasted sharply with the view of Moscow whose ideology was in line with orthodoxy of historical materialism of Marxism's early prophets, that is socialist societies must be preceded by capitalist societies, which would provide the material basis for a socialist economy.

* Ethnic cleansing in post World War II Czechoslovakia: the presidential decrees of Edward Benes, 1945-1948-a sharply critical view at a Hungarian-American website ; 111 kB DOC file

In a speech given in Israel on August 24, 2010, Tony Blair sharply criticised the campaign of " delegitimization " being carried out by enemies of Israel and proponents of the Palestinians, which refuses to grant Israel its legitimate right to its own point of view and self-defense.

Other analysts are sharply critical of the NCF's findings, referring to the criminological mainstream view that " Racial and ethnic data must be treated with caution.

This theory contrasts with the rationalist view that concepts are perceptions ( or recollections, in Plato's term ) of an independently existing world of ideas, in that it denies the existence of any such realm.

It also contrasts with the empiricist view that concepts are abstract generalizations of individual experiences, because the contingent and bodily experience is preserved in a concept, and not abstracted away.

This contrasts with teleological theories of activity, which suppose that the end is the determining factor of activity, as well as those who believe in a tabula rasa, or blank slate, view, where individuals are defined by their interactions.

" Further he writes, " they who had the power to create one man and one woman only, were able to create many men and women at once ...." His view contrasts with the Christian belief that humanity is derived from the one pair, Adam and Eve.

However, some significant differences between neoplatonism and Gregory's thought exist, such as Gregory's statement that beauty and goodness are equivalent, which contrasts with Plotinus ' view that they are two different qualities.

In the view of M. K. Lawson, the intensity of Edmund's struggle against the Danes in 1016 is only matched by Alfred the Great's in 871, and contrasts with Æthelred's failure.

This contrasts with a view among non-linguists, at least in the United States, that languages as ideal systems exist outside the actual practice of language users.

This contrasts with the usual view that canonization is an exercise of infallible magisterium declaring a truth that must be " definitively held ".

Nagel contrasts this view with a rival view which believes that a moral agent can only accept that he or she has a reason to act if the desire to carry out the action has an independent justification ( an account based on presupposing sympathy would be of this kind ).

In his last work Fechner, aged but full of hope, contrasts this joyous " daylight view " of the world with the dead, dreary " night view " of materialism.

Philosophical skepticism, however, is an old movement with many variations, and contrasts with the view that at least one thing is certain, but if by being certain we mean absolute or unconditional certainty, then it is doubtful if it is rational to claim to be certain about anything.

He contrasts this view with what he deems to be his own " naturalistic " perspective in which the distinctive capacities of mind are a cultural achievement of our " second nature ", an idea that he adapts from Gadamer.

The view that the inculcation of virtue is the proper end of legislation contrasts markedly with traditional Chinese thinking on the subject, which argues that laws exist because men are lacking in virtue.

" Naess's view of humans as an integral part of a " total-field image " of Nature contrasts with the alternative ( and more anthropocentric ) construction of ecosophy outlined by Guattari.

This view contrasts for example with late Bertrand Russell's description theory of proper names as well as John Searle's cluster description theory of names which prevailed at the time.

Such transformation geometry lessons present an alternate view that contrasts with classical synthetic geometry.

This focus on connection contrasts to the separation that seems to underlie Scheff ’ s view.

Loy ( 1988: p. 3 ) contrasts his view of the historicity of nonduality in some of its evocations in the experience of the peoples of The East and The West as follows:

His view contrasts with that of John Rawls-that it might be possible to isolate some basic social and political rules ; rather Kaplan's alternative theory of justice is his test in principle, a kind of decision procedure for evaluating social, political, and moral choices, which attempts to circumvent the limitations of an egocentric or culturally narrow perspective while providing sufficient context to make a judgment.

This contrasts with the view presented in the eighteenth century by Rousseau, that the health of a polity depended on active citizen involvement in all aspects of governance.

This contrasts with the Deobandi view that Muhammad was insan-e-kamil (" the complete man "), a respected but physically typical human.

Under this view, it is, therefore, possible to fall out of the scope of atonement through loss of faith, a consequence which contrasts clearly with the punishment theory, which holds that Jesus's death served as a substitute for the sins of individuals directly ( see also limited atonement ).