That positive energy contrasts starkly with the decadent beauty of Paris, a city that is on a path of museification.

Ours is a region of cruel contrasts.

They also often offer examples of sharp contrasts in achievements.

The contrasts in reporting, however, are greatest among development groups.

The status quo contrasts sharply with high level policy statements.

Akihito s travel schedule contrasts sharply with that of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Indeed, EU trade power contrasts sharply with the perception of a weakened Europe.

But it is the ideological picture that presents the starkest contrasts.

Indeed, today s US predicament contrasts sharply only with the current experiences of developing Asia.

Africa is undoubtedly the region most affected by the contrasts of the contemporary world.

Each National Health Service has different policies and priorities, resulting in contrasts.

Approach the city and you see the urban center of the world a hard and harried place, marked by social contrasts as dizzying as its skyscrapers and with a sense of transience as elevated as its buildings.

That mix of contrasts has the potential to seriously destabilize our societies and ways of living.

Yet I found everything irresistible, the city s rhythms and colors, its contrasts and surprises.

The world is a study in contrasts nowadays. We are haunted by images of terror and warfare.

CAMBRIDGE China and Russia have just provided the world with sharp contrasts in the use of power.

This contrasts with mixed languages, where speakers tend to be fluent in one or both of the source languages.

WASHINGTON, DC As we enter 2011, the Euro Atlantic region is a study in strategic contrasts.

This contrasts with Kyoto, where the so called Annex I developed countries adopted essentially identical targets.

21 A minimum standards approach contrasts with approaches that require management plans or other pre approval.

To guarantee their understanding of stability, the tandem contrasts the continuous middle class protests with a wave of regime orchestrated demonstrations.

This contrasts sharply with China and India, both of which have several world class universities, especially in science and engineering.

That contrasts sharply with, for example, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development average of 8,000 kilowatt hours per year.

Like them or not, Carter and Reagan offered sharp contrasts in how they dealt with Latin America.

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We all share the sense of both risk and opportunity that arise from the contrasts and uncertainties of the current global order.

Comparisons and contrasts with the Great Depression of the 1930 s have inevitably become a central part of that discourse and rightly so.

Although both men have warily embraced the 700 billion bailout of the financial sector, the contrasts between the two men are sharp.

Each one of us brings to this gathering his or her society's unique experiences of how those contrasts are unfolding at the grass roots level.

This structure contrasts with the pre 1980 business cycle, which rested on wage growth tied to productivity growth and full employment.

The figures revealed the glaring contrasts between rich and poor nations and between rural and urban populations in the poorest countries.

Durkheim contrasts this phenomenon with the more progressive organic solidarity that evolves in modern societies according to people s professional and functional relationships.

The question is what can be done about this state of affairs, which contrasts starkly with the encouraging outlook that prevailed just a few years back.

Iran is a land of contrasts. On a recent visit organized by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), the coexistence of entrenched tradition and rapid transformation was starkly apparent.

Its use of an empirical methodology that encompasses psychological experience contrasts to the purely positivistic approach typical of the natural sciences which exclude all methods not based solely on sensory observations.

Women in Ancient Egypt had a status that significantly contrasts the status of many modern women because they occupied power in ways that women commonly do not in contemporary societies.

This contrasts somewhat with information available through the annual reports questionnaire, which indicates that the highest number of people in treatment per 1,000 population is in Latin America and the Caribbean.

A plural society is defined by Fredrik Barth as a society combining ethnic contrasts the economic interdependence of those groups, and their ecological specialization (i.e., use of different environmental resources by each ethnic group).

Indeed, the Egyptian and Saudi attitude contrasts starkly with that of two Western powers with extensive influence in Lebanon, the United States and France, which support the UN inquiry wherever it might go.

The expansion of many developing countries' trade and economic growth contrasts sharply with the difficulties faced by many low income countries in integrating themselves beneficially into world trade and into the global economy.

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But the scale of the aid remains massive, especially when one considers how little progress Greece has made in implementing the reforms it promised in the past. This contrasts sharply with Asia s experience in 1997.

Moreover, genetic evidence, based on distinct DNA coding that is known to be related to brain functions in modern humans, suggests at least some cognitive contrasts between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens.

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