Sentences with phrase «contrast to past»

She subsequently meets a man she finds attractive but in contrast to her past pattern, she decides to go more slowly and she chooses not to have him move in with her and her child — thinking, «at least not yet.»

In contrast to past years, Samsung will not release separate flat and edged variants of its flagship smartphone.

In contrast to past years, the event also proved open to the discussion of topics that may have proven taboo - a decision that appears to have led some conference organizers and former supporters to boycott the conference this year.

These glowing reviews stand in sharp contrast to past criticism of the FHA, which was previously bashed by lenders and borrowers alike as too cumbersome.

The rest of the CTS» character is due to Cadillac's fanatical focus on driving dynamics as a way to differentiate the brand from its competitors — a stark contrast to the past.

The most interesting thing about the «league tables» published this morning is how uninterested people are in them — in contrast to the past.

In contrast to past practice where school districts dolled out their local capital dollars based on school facility needs, the new sharing requirement under HB 7069 calculates how much is owed to charters on a per - student basis.

This stood in contrast to past Fincher films, most of which have been treated to cracking sets that welcomed admirers that passed on theatrical viewings.

In pleasant contrast to past major roles — as Daniel Plainview, Bill the Butcher, Christy Brown — Day - Lewis turns in a subdued, almost recessive performance, bringing a historical giant down to human scale.

The paradox is that this season stands in such stark contrast to the past 11 years of drought, highlighting the types of variability that climate change can wreak on the hydrological cycle.

In contrast to past patchwork attempts, Dong and his team undertook an effort to directly develop a whole - brain mouse atlas of brain pathways.

«In contrast to past electrode designs, this fixed geometry allows accurate measurements that are fully comparable within and between experiments, and that tell us exactly how tissues like that of lung or gut mature within a channel, keep in shape and break down under the influence of drugs or other manipulations.»

Cuomo toned down his rhetoric on education policy, in contrast to past years.

But, in contrast to past historical events, such as the military coup that inaugurated the 1964 - 1985 dictatorship, mass media have been, in general, less partisan, less violent and more ambiguous.

same, in fact this season so far he's showed the most desire on the pitch for me, complete contrast to the past couple of seasons.

This value lies in constituting the occasion in some contrast to the past.

The chart below shows just how dramatic the change has been recently, especially in contrast to the past eight years.

Already the most dominant Chinese leader in generations, Xi has made it all too clear that China has entered a «new era,» and that it sees itself as a top global power, in stark contrast to the past four decades of «Hide your strength, bide your time,» as put by Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, who spearheaded the market - opening measures in 1978.

Suri said that in contrast to past «big bang» rollouts of older mobile equipment cycles, 5G will require plenty of equipment upgrades to occur before some of the key 5G standards are expected to be formalised in 2018 and 2019.

«Talking to coal exporters there, «Greed & fear» hears that demand from China for coal is strong while, interestingly, in stark contrast to past practice, China SOE steel producers now pay on time.»

Not exact matches

The results also contrasted stronger - than - expected quarterly sales from McDonald's and Domino's over the past week, indicating that Louisville, Kentucky - based Yum may have lost market share to rivals.

Contrast this with the modern - day retail model: Brands design an entire season's collection of 10 - 15 styles, do their best to estimate the demand based on wholesale orders or past seasons» performance, and then produce thousands of pieces abroad.

Bezos will be a stark contrast to his fellow Seattle - area resident Gates, who has topped the list for much of the past quarter - century and devotes his time and money to philanthropy.

In sharp contrast to Pai, past Republican chairmen have recognized the threat broadband providers can pose to the Internet's unparalleled openness and acted decisively to prevent interference by these gatekeepers.

In contrast, bond market exposure (in the form of yield curve and spread risk) has played a relatively minor role in driving convertible bond risk and return in the recent past and seems likely to play a minor role in the year ahead, based on our model.

In contrast, the Elvis series was just past the dealmaking stage, making it easier for Apple to pull the plug.

These projections are in sharp contrast to Angola's experience of the past few years.

Year - ended business credit growth remains more moderate than that for household credit, but in contrast to the slowing in household credit growth, it has continued on the broad upward trend evident over the past few years.

Which means that our capital misallocation is extensive and long - term, our recessions are long and deep, our growth trend is shallow, and our complacency about how right we are in contrast to the benighted past is callow and pitiable.»

Also, the labour market in Europe continues to make only very slow progress with unemployment falling from a peak of 12.1 % in April 2013 to 10.3 % in January 2016, contrasting sharply with the steeper declines seen in the US and the UK over the past five years.

This is in contrast to the high verification requirements for Rule 506 (c) of Regulation D and is consistent with how accredited investor checks have been done in the past (prior to Sept 23).

That stood in sharp contrast to AbbVie Inc's (ABBV.N) hepatitis C drugs, which blew past analysts» forecasts on Thursday.

In contrast to yields on nominal bonds, yields on inflation - linked bonds have for the past six months remained close to their lowest recorded levels.

In contrast to the improving conditions in the business sector, household spending has been flat over the past year, held back by a relatively subdued labour market.

In contrast to strong domestic demand, net exports have acted as a substantial drag on GDP growth over the past couple of years, although this drag has begun to diminish.

In contrast to exports, import volumes have grown solidly over the past two years, due to robust growth in domestic demand.

One way to illustrate the full scope of this problem would be to look more closely at the horizonal character of the ecstatic past in contrast with the past of the ordinary interpretation of time, which is only understood by negative contrast with the present.5 Here Mason, apparently following Whitehead, allows us to make a particularly striking contrast: we can never change the past» he says (p. 95), meaning to evoke what Heidegger calls Dasein's «facticity» and to compare it with the objectivity with which perished actual occasions confront the concrescing actual entity in Whitehead.

The central allegation of paradox seems to me to run roughly as follows: a nontemporal divine experience would include in itself all events in time (cf. CSPM 105); but to experience all temporal events simultaneously would dissolve any real distinction between past and future (cf. CSPM 66); so there could be no temporal transition, no change, no contingency, and no freedom (cf. CSPM 137); and since nothing could become, there could be no real permanent and unchanging reality either, «for then the contrast between the terms, and therewith their meaning, must vanish» (CSPM 166).

Unlike the theological controversies of past generations, these two passages serve not to contrast faith and works but to define and order...

to Jake, in every era or times in the past, humans have different perception of reality, because our knowledge improves or changes toward sophistication, For example during the times of Jesus, there was no science yet as what we have today, since the religion in the past corresponds to their needs, it is true for them in the past, but today we already knew many new ideas and facts, so what is applicable in the past is no longer today, like religion, we have also to change to conform with todays knowledge.The creation or our origin for example is now explained beyond doubt by science as the big bang and evolution is the reason we become humans, is in contrast to creation in the bibles genesis,.

Prophecy illuminates the past, present, and future by employing story and poetry to bring into sharp contrast the way things are with the way things should be with, the ways of power - hungry people with the ways of a loving God, the path of cruelty and injustice with the path of righteousness, the kingdoms of this world with the coming Kingdom of God.

With the Magnificat, Mary not only announces a birth, she announces the inauguration of a new kingdom, one that stands in stark contrast to every other kingdom — past, present, and future — that relies on violence and exploitation to achieve «greatness.»

Having thus stated the text that governs this book, it may be helpful now to say a few words about context — to indicate some contrasts and kinships with other movements and writers past and present.

While these implied contrasts between a moral past and an amoral present can be documented in certain respects, as general propositions they are ill - founded and, to be frank, downright wild.

By contrast, fixed - time» is an attitude of lowered expectations and acquiescence in the face of less favorable conditions, but not necessarily to the absolutizing of the past by tenacious retention of its attributes.

In contrast stands the more basic perception in the mode of causal efficacy; which «is our general sense of existence, as one item among others in an efficacious external world» and «of derivation from an immediate past, and of passage to an immediate future»; its data «are vague, not to be controlled, heavy with emotion.»

Such a miracle would involve the suspension of the laws of nature at the level of primitive actual occasions, but if we accept the principle that God «speaks» to a given actual occasion in its own «language,» and if the «language» of primitive actual occasions in nature is such that the character of the data available for aesthetic synthesis in the concrescence of such occasions admits only of absolutely miniscule contrasts with the givenness of the character of the past, then God has no leverage via subjective aims to introduce shifts in the social structures conditioning the possibilities available for aesthetic synthesis in the concrescences of such primitive actual occasions.

The stimuli from the past can add to the intensity of experience if they are contrasted with one another.

So far our comments have been largely a contrast of stances toward human existence: a plea for a more truly dialectical, less dualistic understanding of the relation between form and energy, a plea for a similar openness toward the past, a question about the future to the effect that the incompleteness of the present ought not to frustrate Dr. Altizer into insisting that the total reversal promised by the glimpsed eschatological future be the only standard or norm of faith.

But there is no need to stress the contrast between our past and God's future.