The status quo contrasts sharply with high level policy statements.

Thus p contrasts with pʰ , t with tʰ , k with kʰ , and the affricate t ʃ with t ʃʰ .

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.

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

Ours is a region of cruel 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.

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

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

They also often offer examples of sharp contrasts in achievements.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Every day, at the same hour, he appeared with his metal trunk stuffed with all that he had collected from street corner garbage cans it was as if he wanted to ensnare me with his street sorcery so that I could see the city s unfathomable contrasts.

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.

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.

Eric Foner (2010) contrasts the abolitionists and anti slavery Radical Republicans of the Northeast who saw slavery as a sin, with the conservative Republicans who thought it was bad because it hurt white people and blocked progress.

This contrasts sharply with China s single party system, in which the level of government accountability is much lower. Official corruption, for example, has become so entrenched that President Xi Jinping has made an anti graft campaign a central objective.

This contrasts with the 4 of GNP that the US spends on its military, roughly 500 billion this year. So the US spends around thirty times more on the military than it does on peaceful development aid for the poorest countries.

This contrasts with the 0.51 per gallon subsidy that US companies (a huge portion of which goes to a single firm) receive on ethanol. Thus, foreign producers can t compete unless their costs are 1.05 per gallon lower than those of American producers.

The unbearable situation of a large part of the Syrian population contrasts with the attempts to project an image of normality in areas under regime control. The celebration of TEDx is, for many activists, a step towards normalization of the ruling regime.

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.

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.