Mercosur members, by contrast, remain wary of excessive trade liberalization and, with the exception of Brazil (and to a lesser extent Uruguay), are significantly less competitive.

By contrast, for Chávez and, to a lesser degree, other Andean leaders (Peru being a notable exception), the behemoth to the north is a dangerous imperialist enemy.

The US and the political groups that it tends to support in the region, by contrast, offer very little in this regard.

I found these rules out by comparing the statistics of four word phrases that appear more often in the most favorite TEDTalks as opposed to the least favorite TEDTalks.

Argentina, by contrast, is a highly gas dependent country with diminishing reserves equivalent to less than eight years of production.

By contrast, emerging markets like China have less sophisticated systems and evolve more complex contractual institutional links over time, particularly through globalized transactions.

By contrast, older users (1) are less likely to do stupid things in the first place, and (2) are less likely to do so in range of a camera.

But filmmaker Akrami isn't as optimistic.

By contrast, American foreign policy formation is highly constrained by institutions like Congress, the courts, and the constitution. Thus, we would expect less opportunity for transformational leadership.

(By contrast, non financial corporations rarely borrow more than 70 of their assets, and often much less, despite the absence of any regulation of their leverage ratios.)

We, by contrast, are social animals.

Given the interconnectedness of the global economic system, one extreme cannot be abolished while the other is allowed to exist.

By contrast, plants constructed with less precise techniques such as hybridization or mutagenesis generally are subject to no government scrutiny or requirements (or opposition from activists) at all.

First, it promises more effective risk management, because large banks are less exposed to a single sort of customer (in contrast to rural American banks, which suffered when American farmers suffered).

At one extreme we have the non specialized household.

And that if we don't do that, the antithesis, although we've heard otherwise, is we're really going to become extinct, because we're feeding our children to death.

Egypt, by contrast, is relatively homogeneous.

By contrast, the new approaches are agnostic.

The single market is the paramount example at one extreme, with defense plagued by duplication and lacunae between EU countries at the other.

Unlike our forebears, who did very little or nothing about urban heat islands, we are in a good position to tackle many of their effects.

Gas prices, by contrast, vary widely across regions from under 4 MMBtu in the US to around 10 in Europe and 15 in Asia.

In contrast, the agricultural and services sectors, and to a lesser extent commerce, became major sources of employment. Services, agriculture and commerce and hotels all registered increases in their contribution to GDP over the same period.

By contrast, the communists campaign was all but invisible.

One leading expert on Indonesia, Benedict Anderson, roots Indonesia s nature in its core Javanese culture, particularly the wayang religious tradition.

Rouhani, by contrast, proceeded with Khamenei s blessing.

But the worst was yet to come.

By contrast, a flying boat uses its fuselage for buoyancy.

Germany, by contrast, is a mainstay of the democratic world.

Chinese surpluses, by contrast, were seen as a cause of global imbalances.

Third, unlike other assets, gold does not provide any income.

By contrast, the OMT program is unconstrained.

In contrast to Latvia, Iceland let its currency, the krona, devalue massively.

That was because, unlike Germany, Japan was standing on its own.

By contrast, we understand past crises very well.

In contrast, Camilo Raigozo criticizes President Santos' 'happiness' with the killing of the guerrilla fighters

The mountains to Salzburg's south contrast with the rolling plains to the north.

Its name is Latin for the smaller lion , in contrast to Leo, the larger lion.

Finnish army centres, by contrast, were deep inside the country.

Inversely, the total holding cost increases as the production quantity increases.

Ultimate specialization is the other extreme travel is required for all things.

Less effort, you're less persistent, and so on.

By contrast, it proved highly remunerative for George Soros.

For, contrary to what some believe, they do not strengthen democracy.

Academia, by contrast, appears to be moving in the opposite direction.

By contrast, Ghana represents the sunny side Africa.