Sentences with phrase «used as a contrast»

The message on the board was used as a contrast.

Polarized xenon is also used as a contrast agent to enhance images in experimental magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of human lungs, but conventional systems for producing and using this gas can be as big as a car.

«On an MRI, a healthy lung should look completely white when helium - 3 is used as a contrast agent.

In medicine, this element is used as a contrast agent — something that identifies structures in the body, such as neural tissues, that accumulate this element.

Built on an easy - to - make polymer, these particles can be used as contrast agents to light up tumors for MRI and PET scans or deliver chemo and other therapies to destroy tumors.

Gadolinium is used as a contrast agent to improve the visibility of internal organs in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Black is used as contrasting color, the nasal air intakes are bigger and more sculptured, and the wheel design and tailpipe arrangements are less subtle.

The large body surfaces are painted in cool «pure white», while «malibu blue» is used as a contrasting color for the impact surfaces of the bumpers, the door mirror housings and the seam that runs parallel to the side windows.

Earth tones are repeatedly put to good use as a contrast to strong black and white elements set upon a lighter background in paintings that reflect not only the light in Israel but the political tension that wrestles with the formal, psychological, and aesthetic issues proposed by the paintings.

As a result, however interesting it may be that half the population doesn't share the 97 % figure, the concensus view remains guesswork and miles away from the experimentally demonstrated effect of H. pylori that I used as a contrast.

Not exact matches

In terms of color coordination (as highlighted in this KISSmetrics graphic), this would mean creating a visual structure consisting of base analogous colors and contrasting them with accent complementary colors (or you can use tertiary colors):

By contrast, smaller merchants who promote their security programs can use it as a way to differentiate themselves from their like - sized competitors.

That company is pioneering medical uses for carbon molecules called nanospheres, such as attacking cancer cells and dramatically improving magnetic - resonance - imaging contrasts.

In contrast, spending on public infrastructure, such as transportation systems, that benefit not only the current generation but future ones as well, should also be paid for not just by current generation but also by future generations who will also use them.

And as noted above, the use of stone boundary markers rather than wooden or clay ones indicated that alienations of land to the public sector (usually to the palace) were irreversible, in contrast to communal land tenure.

Rubin's decision to share his story about financial losses at Goldman Sachs where he «weathered the storm» using his magical existential thinking stands in contrast to Citigroup's condition with Rubin as the long - tenured Chair of the Executive Committee.

This kind of action contrasts with the behavior of the Dow, suggesting «distribution» - large interests using rallies in the major indices as an opportunity to unload positions on heavy downside volume.

CFA and Americans for Financial Reform released a report on Wednesday, written by Hauptman and Barbara Roper, CFA's director of investor protection, which scrutinizes how brokerage firms and insurance companies market their services on their website and «contrasts the practices they use to attract customers with those they use when resisting regulation as fiduciary advisors.»

In this box we use the implied volatility of options [1] to contrast fixed - interest and equity markets, where implied volatility has declined noticeably, with foreign exchange markets where volatility has not fallen as sharply.

Call me overly idealistic, but I would much rather use Limbaugh's comments as a chance to show contrast between the conservative talk show host's vitriol and a progressive, tolerant, civil, informed discourse.

In contrast, today's guns, particularly handguns, have little practical value except as a weapon (their sporting use is the only exception).

In its more common contemporary use, it contrasts with political «conservatism,» such that contemporary American political discussion is often largely understood as a debate between the two.

The fanatical belief systems of these fundamentalists is characterised as «medieval» (e.g. in https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isis-really-wants/384980/), used here in the sense of being centuries out of date and repressive, contrasted with the «liberated» society in which we live in the West.

In contrast Jesus took away the power and riches motivation as he spoke against hierarchical leadership withing the community he is building, against giving titles to anyone, and against using the place were people gather together for monetary gain.

Vorhanden, which Heidegger uses of the peculiar mode of being characteristic of inanimate objects, as contrasted with responsible human Dasein, I have translated by «tangible», as in Bultmann the antithesis is not so much between Vorhandensein and Dasein as between the tangible realities of the visible world and eternal realities, very much like the Pauline contrast of kata sarka and kata pneuma.

In stark contrast, the tenets of Christianity as set forth by it's founder have never been abbrogated, and command it's followers to pray for and love their enemies and those who despitefully use them.

One frequently cited bar graph has been used to suggest, for the decade 1965 - 75, a severe diminution of seven mainline Protestant bodies by contrast both with their gains in the preceding ten years and with the continuing growth of selected conservative churches (see Jackson W. Carroll et al., Religion in America, 1950 to the Present [Harper & Row, 19791, p. 15) The gap in growth rates for 1965 - 75, as shown on that graph, is more than 29 percentage points (an average loss in the oldline denominations of 8.9 per cent against average gains among the conservatives of 20.5 per cent) This is indeed a substantial difference, but it does not approach the difference in growth rates recorded for the same religious groups in the 1930s, when the discrepancy amounted to 62 percentage points.

He uses the term «response» as including genuine responsibility, listening as well as speaking, and an element of possible surprise — all in clear contrast to «the general interest in salesmanship, the worship of efficiency for its own sake,» and «the emphasis of psychological schools on stimuli, conditioned responses and the manipulation of emotions.»

Here the term «psycho - synthetic» is clearly used in conscious contrast with «psychoanalytic» to suggest the procedure from wholeness as contrasted with the procedure from isolated parts and complexes.

The locus of the controversy is the contrast between those who adhere to the western Christian moral tradition and those committed to the «sexual revolution» wishing to further the revolution using school children as a captive audience.

By contrast, the South African Council of Churches (SACC) which represents approximately 22.5 per cent of all South Africans, and the Roman Catholic Church, which claims 9.5 per cent of the population, have recently endorsed the use of violence as a «necessary evil» to «free» black South Africans.

These two groups are described as contrasting examples of two short - term group uses of this volume.

For then it would be open to question whether one is dealing with a concept which is possible but which can correspond to no possible reality, or rather with the concept of something truly real.9 In contrast to these different possible dialectical ways in which the initial concept of a universal becoming can be used, Whitehead's categoreal system aims to describe it unmistakably as the fundamental truth: «The ancient doctrine that «no one crosses the same river twice,» is extended.

Or to use the language that Jesus himself used, it's the narrow way, as contrasted with the broad way of convention.

As a result, Hamilton makes extensive use of the «criterion of dissimilarity» to «pick out aspects of the gospel accounts of Jesus» conduct and teaching which are in sharp contrast to the current practice and teaching of his day» (PPCT 365).

By «usually» Locke must mean «popularly,» since he contrasts the philosopher's correct use of «power» or cause as referring to the primary qualities: «The first... I think may be properly called real, original, or primary qualities... [Light and warmth, e.g.,] are all of them equally powers in the sun, depending on its primary qualities» (E-I 181; original emphasis).

Nygren thus uses his doctrine of the contrasting motifs of eros and agape to point to what is distinctive in the Reformation conception of love, but he treats this as the only interpretation of love which really expresses the New Testament conception.

He cites fifth century Christian bishop Julian of Eclanum who interpreted Romans 1 as a contrast of those who make «right use» of sexual desire with those who «indulge in the excess of it.»

Jürgen Moltmann has pointed out that one amazing ramification of Christianity's peculiar doctrine of the Trinity is the way it transcends the patriarchalism implicit in Jewish monotheism as well as the matriarchalism implicit in pagan pantheism.49 Using sexual terms in a metasexual rather than a literal, genital, and bodily sense, the feminine dimension of personality refers to the receptive, passive, self - effacing, care - receiving capacity in us all that contrasts with the initiating, aggressive, self - assertive, self - sufficient traits we associate with the masculine dimension.

Hartshorne also uses them to evaluate sets of experiences, however: «the very contrasts between cases of ideal beauty and distortions toward either extreme of un-unified diversity and undiversified unity can themselves, taking life as a whole and memory of other cases into account, enrich the total beauty of experience» (AMV 304 - 05).

But when Whitehead uses «objects» as contrasted with events, he means properties or qualities.

In contrast to Freud's view, he understood the unconscious as «a great repository of creativeness «which can be used for good or for ill.

Our present concern, however, is not with this obvious and distressing manifestation of disharmony in social life but with the disharmony itself — that is, the failure on the part of men and women to discern that true community and sound relationships within it can be found only as each of us has his or her place in a wider grouping of humans, where there is vivid contrast because each is valued as being precisely this or that person while the community as a whole has goals or ends (what used to be called «ideals») that are worthy, upbuilding, and enriching.

If, instead, we use the notion of LSD as an amplifier of mental processes, which in turn results in intensification of feeling due to the development of contrast, we can provide an explanation of peak experience as a logical extension of the lower level phenomena.

Plotinus spoke of God as Love, but he used the Greek word eros in contrast to agape, which was another Greek word for love used by Christians.

«This is an incredibly sharp contrast with the outlook for their parents and grandparents, as none of those 55 years old and older reported plans to use either of these services,» the study finds.

I used sanding sugar to roll them in, and I really like the contrast in textures, as well as their itty bitty size.

My two suggestions would be to make sure you use apples that will maintain their shape when roasted (pie apples as opposed to sauce apples), and when I make this again tomorrow I'll use a crispy green like torn romaine hearts as a contrast to the tender apples and brussel sprouts.

Sea salt (optional): I like using coase sea salt as a way to add more minerals and the salt also creates a nice contrast against the oil and stevia, which makes the bombs taste sweeter.

In contrast, Mourinho simply isn't using the former Juventus man in his most effective role, on the left of a midfield three, as we saw him flourish in Turin playing that position.