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

This is in contrast to gramicidin S, which is a cyclic peptide chain.

Public diplomacy, by contrast, involves building long term relationships.

By contrast, inflation hawks argue that inflation must be attacked preemptively. While most central banks are inflation hawks, this stance is a matter of religion, not economic science.

Europe, by contrast, is clearly lagging.

It does, however, increase inequality.

By contrast, the new approaches are agnostic.

By contrast, the crises were a wake up call in many emerging market countries.

By contrast, today s road transportation system is inconvenient, unsustainable, and dangerous.

(By contrast, reconstruction in Iraqi Kurdistan is occurring at breakneck speed.)

Instead, Hezbollah and Hamas thrive on fighting as an end in itself.

Bush, in contrast, believes that terrorism is rooted in the absence of political and economic opportunity.

By contrast, the credibility associated with pursuing only an inflation target builds on itself.

By contrast, poor people in China mostly view their personal situation as transitional.

By contrast, the OMT program is unconstrained.

Eastern thinking, by contrast, has been abductive, moving from pragmatism to guessing the next steps.

We, by contrast, are social animals.

The second rule is to have a narrative and to stick to it. Confused and ever changing messages don t win votes.

By contrast, English, Spanish, French, and, increasingly, German transcend national boundaries.

On the contrary, shared hardship usually strengthens the ties between citizens and their rulers.

By contrast, the proposal to impose losses on small Cypriot depositors had no redeeming justification whatsoever.

But, unlike 40 years ago, governments cannot be expected to drive progress.

This is in contrast to Russian privatization, which consisted of sales of communal assets to private companies rather than share transfer to citizens.

Instead, the US is trying to deter China s rulers from launching a military attack on the democrats in Taiwan.

This is in contrast to other routing protocols, such as the Routing Information Protocol (RIP) and the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).

By contrast, the terror index for Western Europe was 1.1.

Today, by contrast, their heirs are openly criticizing the Asian capitalist model.

But filmmaker Akrami isn't as optimistic.

The silver lining in all this is that, unlike economists and politicians, markets have no ideology.

This is because, in contrast to mobile handsets, it is emitted continuously and is more powerful at close quarters.

By contrast, Japan relied almost exclusively on an extensive series of seawalls and offshore breakwaters along the east coast of the island of Honshu.

Egypt, by contrast, is relatively homogeneous.

By contrast, in large part because of my father, I managed to complete high school, then medical school, and become a general practitioner.

In contrast, QE3 will be associated with a fiscal contraction, possibly even a large fiscal cliff.

By contrast, the type of prize system I have in mind would rely on competitive markets to lower prices and make the fruits of the knowledge available as widely as possible.

Progress, on the contrary, requires the utmost scope for personal initiative that is compatible with social order.

By contrast, none of the 16 Arab Muslim majority countries is an overachiever.

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.

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

On the contrary, European elites seem to feel that ganging up on the US would be improper.

By contrast, sophisticated investors, such as big stock market players, are unlikely to fall prey to this trap.

By contrast, Spain seems to be moving south, figuratively if not literally (witness the desertification affecting some parts of Andalusia).

By contrast, the return on US government securities, which form the bulk of China s foreign assets, was next to nothing.

By contrast, Syrian President Bashar al Assad s regime is likely to have been ousted before the year s end.