Sentences with phrase «sharp contrast from»

That's a sharp contrast from the past seven years when regional mall REITs have posted total returns on average of 31.07 percent per year.

This was a sharp contrast from the three previous quarters, when bitcoin funding topped the money raised by more general blockchain startups.

«I wanted a sharp contrast from the Venus show, because I didn't want to give the impression that I was still doing the same work,» Mr. Saul said.

Truth be told, I never got to finish the original when it released back in 2003, but Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions serves up the right mix of exploration, action, and story; a sharp contrast from the Paper Mario series, which has undergone some drastic changes over the last five years (and not necessarily to its benefit).

The aiming, however, feels way too inaccurate, which is a sharp contrast from the tight controls in the rest of the game.

There were no African Americans among the 51 film actors recognized by the guild — a sharp contrast from last year, which saw black - led films like «12 Years a Slave» and «Lee Daniels» The Butler» score numerous nominations.

The fNIRS scans indicated that the concussed brain activated at a lower threshold and drew from a wider area — a sharp contrast from earlier functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies using concussion patients.

Democrats are winning some very competitive races with outsider candidates that have a lot of energy and enthusiasm, a sharp contrast from Republican incumbents and politicians like Saccone.

That was a sharp contrast from a year ago, when the administration was trying to woo General Electric into locating its headquarters in New York and did not call for any additional action as the dredging of the river wound down.

In sharp contrast from Tillerson's moderate tone, Pompeo on March 11 was insistent that appeasement for North Korea was not forthcoming: «Make no mistake about it, while these negotiations are going on, there will be no concessions made.»

Attacking Midfield is probably Arsenal's strongest position at the moment, a sharp contrast from last year when it was possibly the teams weakest position.

This has been a trend for Manchester United all season long as the club has just a +8 goal differential on the road to go with a 7 -4-3 record, a sharp contrast from its home goal differential of +24 and record of 10 -1-2.

The love affair in both cases amounts to a real human connection that stands out in sharp contrast from their fearful, status - driven social environments.

Not exact matches

Goldman's trading results were in sharp contrast to those from JPMorgan Chase (jpm) and Bank of America (bac), which reported a rise in trading revenue.

While the new 4 - in - One's 10X lens suffers from the same key issue as before — the challenge of stabilization for a roughly postage stamp - sized focus area at a several - inch distance — the results we achieved were superior in contrast and apparently a little sharper, as well.

In their September 2013 paper entitled «Time Variation in Precious Metal Safe Haven Status — Evidence from the USA», Brian Lucey and Sile Li compare and contrast the effectiveness of four precious metals (gold, silver, platinum and palladium) as safe havens from sharp declines in U.S. stocks (the S&P 500 Index) and U.S. bonds (a 10 - year U.S. Treasury note index).

The argument gains a good deal of persuasiveness from the sharp contrast in religiosity between that period and the «50s, when liberal and moderate Protestants were not only happily a part of the American way of life but enjoyed a growth curve comparable to that of conservative Protestants.

In sharpest contrast is a Cartesian hermeneutics that requires a distancing or alienation from the text.

Apart from the difficulty in identifying when a change is a «revolution» and when it isn't, the sharp contrast between normal and revolutionary science has been questioned.

Now pay attention... in sharp contrast to the Bible, which generally moves from relatively violent passages to far more peaceful ones, the muslim koran travels the exact OPPOSITE path.

Viewed from any other part of the world the differentiations between denominations which seem sharp enough in North America tend to fade away or, rather, are overshadowed by the family resemblances which bind the bulk of American Protestants together into a well - defined type as contrasted with Christian communities on other continents.

Owing in no small part to its roots in an Andean cosmology taken over from the Indians, highland culture presents a sharp contrast to that of the coast.

In sharp contrast to earlier tribal and feudal patterns, the bourgeois family made possible the freedom of a man and woman to choose each other, to live with their children in relative independence from wider kinship groups, and to form a bond in which obligation is reinforced by affection.

Wendy's advancement is a sharp contrast to McDonald's policy of using eggs only from caged hens in the United States.

The rush to eliminate fat from gourmet foods too often has also eliminated most of the flavor, a fact which is in sharp contrast to this enticingly delicious cookie.

To see Mary T. today is to note a sharp contrast with the 14 - year - old from Louisville who shocked the swimming world in 1979 by breaking the world 200 butterfly record three times in her first year of senior - level competition.

The lack of movement and imagination from the Liverpool attack in recent weeks has been in sharp contrast to their form in the first half of the season.

This is in sharp contrast to, say, letting state - funded organisations from enforcing their faith (and by extension, the bigotries and inequalities of that particular faith) with the assistance of public money and state support.

With the supervisor position and two town board seats to be decided, there is a sharp contrast to two years ago, when hundreds of thousands of dollars from companies associated with East Hampton Airport flowed to the Republican side.

Silda Wall Spitzer's absence from her husband's campaign stands in sharp contrast to Huma Abedin, the wife of New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, who was active in his campaign even before this week's revelations of his online sexual impropriety.

(That's in sharp contrast to Mayor Bill de Blasio, who still has not made an endorsement in the race while awaits further progressive «vision» from Ms. Clinton).

In sharp contrast, a previous study by Greenfield analyzing American books found that the use of the words «obliged» and «give» declined substantially from 1800 to 2000 as U.S. society shifted from being predominantly rural to predominantly urban.

In contrast, the majority of shots are pin - sharp from corner to corner.

In this picture, RNA — a single - stranded molecule, in contrast to the twin strands of DNA — was perceived as a secondary player, «sort of a slave molecule, copied from DNA in a pretty uninteresting way,» says Philip Sharp, an MIT biologist and Nobel laureate.

Moreover, elephants from the disrupted population showed no evidence of discriminating between callers when age - related cues simulated individuals on an increasing scale of social dominance, in sharp contrast to the undisturbed population where this core social ability was well developed.

The isolated people Price photographed — with their fine bodies, ease of reproduction, emotional stability and freedom from degenerative ills — stand in sharp contrast to civilized moderns subsisting on the «displacing foods of modern commerce,» including sugar, white flour, pasteurized milk, lowfat foods, vegetable oils and convenience items filled with extenders and additives.

For Fall 2016, designers from Roberto Cavalli to Eckhaus Latta showcased denim bottoms in a spectacular array of cuts, washes, lengths and fabrics, many of the flared, cropped, dual - toned and inventively distressed offerings a sharp contrast to the skinnies and subdued classics we've come to rely on.

Gillespie, working from a script by Steven Rogers, does an effective job of painting a somewhat less - than - flattering portrayal of the protagonist's hard - scrabble existence, with the strength of the film's opening stretch standing in sharp contrast to a middling midsection that grows less and less interesting as time progresses.

It's an engaging, low - key premise that stands in sharp contrast to the over-the-top fare that generally dominates multiplexes during the summertime months, as Shyamalan, working from a script cowritten with Gary Whitta, offers up an engrossing father / son tale that's enhanced by the inclusion of intriguing sci - fi elements.

The 2.35:1 anamorphic image is razor - sharp yet creamy smooth, so velvety you want to caress it — I do believe this is the finest - looking DVD from the studio to date, down to every last point on the checklist: contrast, shadow detail, saturation, colour rendering, etc..

A strong transfer from a clean, well - preserved print with strong contrasts and a sharp image.

The image is not just clean and free from much of the damage seen on earlier editions, missing frames and footage has been restored and the image is now sharp and strong, with deep blacks, vivid contrasts, and unprecedented clarity, stability, and detail.

A gallery of screen shots from the new Blu - ray edition and the previous DVD releases contrasts the visual quality and the palette, with the Blu - ray indeed brighter, sharper and more cleanly saturated.

A win for Mr. Turner, the only film here not to receive a nomination from the CDG, would be the second for a Mike Leigh production, though the film's handsome but drab vision of painter J.M.W. Turner's life is in sharp contrast to Topsy - Turvy's opulent view of life in the Victorian theater.

The first time I entered Lofa in 2012 on a work assignment, it was a sharp contrast of wartime relics, the bullet pockmarked buildings that stood across the street from the new Reconstruction Era landmarks, like the Total gas station and rebuilt cement homes with metal roofs that shined in the brilliant sun.

Estimates from regressions with detailed controls, nearest - neighbor models, and propensity score models all indicate large, positive, and statistically significant relationships between computer ownership and earnings and employment, in sharp contrast to the null effects of our experiment.

This is in sharp contrast to high - income communities, where 8 in 10 children graduate from college.

This stands in sharp contrast to the sloppy snapshot we get from multiple choice test data.

The regenerative braking is pretty communicative, although the off - throttle response from the regeneration system is not very strong in Comfort mode, a sharp contrast to the BMW 1 - Series e and the Mini-e.

Aside from a slimmer frame, the Voyage also gets a sharper Paperwhite display, with a better contrast and improved brightness.