| It stands in marked contrast to what has prevailed from the Reformation onwards. |
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| The raunchiness of the former stands in marked contrast to the poignancy of the latter. |
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| In marked contrast, needles of a variety of conifers are frequently abundant in peat and lake deposits. |
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| We have some amazing pictures of palm trees being battered by 45 mph winds, a marked contrast to identical photos taken when the sun was shining. |
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| It will stand in marked contrast to the ethics of the minority, whether that of any self-sufficient solitudinarian or self-debasing cadger. |
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| This is in marked contrast to those reefs close to the mine that are regularly affected by high sediment loads carried by the plume. |
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| The pilgrims were touched by the marked contrast between the lushness and beauty of nature and the poverty of the Jamaican people. |
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| In marked contrast, the current restoration of Ballyfin is an exemplary model of close attention to the demesne landscape as well as the house itself. |
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| Hebei's failure to develop more rapidly is in marked contrast with the hinterlands of Shanghai and Shenzhen. |
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| The marching rhythm of passages where four-syllable phrases crop up repeatedly is in marked contrast to the smooth and streaming quality of the irregular rhythm found in the majority of sentences. |
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| This system does not correspond to the law of any later period in Rome and is in marked contrast with the law of the Twelve Tables and law of the time of Plutarch and Dionysius themselves. |
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| This is in marked contrast to the fatalism you see in places like Russia and China, where partisanship is frowned upon. |
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| This concern often stands in marked contrast with the callous and greedy unconcern of the current wielders of power and influence in the Middle East. |
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| The institutional tolerance of French society stands in marked contrast to American culture which is closed-minded by comparison. |
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| Such precociousness is characteristic of hares in general, and is in marked contrast to young rabbits, which are born naked and blind. |
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| The politeness of the elderly was in marked contrast to the freshness, sometimes brashness, often deliberate, of the young, seen even in their responses to the questionnaire. |
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| This was all in marked contrast to the group's impeccable British shows of three years ago. |
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| Car ownership too has been falling, in marked contrast with the rest of England and Wales. |
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| This is in marked contrast with patterns into the 1960s that saw earlier home leaving, earlier marriages and earlier ages at childbearing. |
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| This appears to be in marked contrast to the situation that exists in the south where relatively few hearing people use sign language. |
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| Such transfers can have a major destabilizing effect and stand in marked contrast to any endeavor to reach diplomatic solutions to conflicts. |
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| This was in marked contrast to other imports where volumes rose while their prices declined. |
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| In marked contrast to last year, severe summer weather in 1997 was not nearly as extreme and expensive. |
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| In marked contrast, American relations with Islamabad appear to be more focused on the war on terror and on countering nuclear proliferation. |
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| This wall of greenery 14 floors high will provide a marked contrast with the surrounding urban architecture. |
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| There was a marked contrast with the Windsors, who plug away at their favorite causes in a manner that sometimes implies that attracting too much attention to them would be vulgar. |
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| Today, peace of mind has finally been given to the Regev and Goldwasser families, but it is in marked contrast to the responses from elsewhere in the region. |
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| The delays as observed over the last several decades are in marked contrast to the situation observed earlier, where transitions were occurring at increasingly younger average ages. |
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| In marked contrast to the Inspectors' evaluation findings in the African region, the majority of projects evaluated in Asia maintained strong linkages to the private sector. |
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| There is a difficult balance between peace and civil war, but the intensity of the European effort and the unity of the European effort is in marked contrast to the disunity of ten years ago. |
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| In marked contrast the Newcastle team have apparently achieved little. |
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| In marked contrast, there is no mechanism in Canada's seal hunt management plan linking total allowable catches to current scientific and environmental uncertainty. |
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| This stands in marked contrast to the situation in Europe where multinational companies of US origin rank amongst the top equipment suppliers in eight out of the twelve Member States. |
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| Type I Modic changes showed a marked contrast enhancement. |
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| This is in marked contrast to filter bag systems, which lose suction when pores in the filter become clogged as dirt and dust are collected. |
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| This is in marked contrast to complex objects which do show aging, such as automobiles and humans. |
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| This is in marked contrast to the predominantly sandy sediments of the Table Mountain Group. |
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| American traders moved in but their abusive attitudes and dishonest trade practices, in marked contrast to the well-regulated French trade, antagonized the Indians. |
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| There is a marked contrast between the character of the northern and southern flanks of Fairfield. |
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| The new building is characterised by its simple, straight shapes, which are a marked contrast to the remaining old parts of the building, for example the original ashlars from the Heidelberg Castle. |
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| In this context, she had developed a self-reliant, avoidant pattern of relationships, in marked contrast to that of her husband. |
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| The British government has long been quietly preening itself for its apparent success in ensuring the affordability of state pensions, in marked contrast with the United Kingdom's more profligate neighbours. |
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| Fibrovascular septa tend to show marked contrast enhancement. |
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| The agility of such networks stands in marked contrast to the cumbersome sharing of information and weak cooperation in criminal investigations and prosecutions on the part of States. |
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| This was in marked contrast to nearly all the other KVM sectors, where the safety of the verifiers was paramount and an outbreak of violence saw orders go out for the verifiers to scuttle for the safe haven of their bunkers. |
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| In the past year, a plethora of think-tanks sympathetic to Labour have been founded a marked contrast to the general intellectual torpor that distinguished much of Labour's 18 years in opposition. |
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| This is in marked contrast to other more primitive primates, where the agonic mode dominates social behaviour. |
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| Hail is common with many of the thunderstorms in the state, as there is often a marked contrast in temperature of warmer ground conditions compared to the cold air aloft. |
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