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By contrast, the emphasis in the United States has been on finding market-friendly ways to contain spillovers from bank failure.
The pragmatic wisdom of early Zionism is easily explained: in contrast to the anti-Semitic cliché about “Jewish power,” Zionism was the national movement of a weak people, decimated by oppression and genocide – a people that might face annihilation if it made the wrong choice at a moment of decision.
By contrast, the US has advised American carriers to obey China’s prior-notification demand.
In contrast, QE3 will be associated with a fiscal contraction, possibly even a large fiscal cliff.
By contrast, the latest data suggest that the US economy is performing as sluggishly now as it was in the first half of the year.
In contrast, Russia’s timing suggests that Vladimir Putin seeks to accomplish its aggressive aims ahead of the US elections, thus avoid beginning relations with the next president on an overtly confrontational note.
Thus, in contrast to the West’s temporizing, the strategy of Assad’s allies is clearly defined: military victory for the regime, backed by ample supplies of weapons and, in the case of Iran, Lebanese proxy troops from Hezbollah on the ground.
Assistance from the US, Europe, and Japan comes primarily in the form of grants; by contrast, two-thirds of Chinese aid is issued in the form of loans to finance projects and material, with China’s export-import and development banks and its state-owned enterprises providing the lion’s share of the funds.
Neuropathic pain, by contrast, arises after a lesion or disease affects the nervous system.
By contrast, China's railways carry five times as much freight as India's, even though China has a far better road network.
By contrast, foreign investors in Chile and China bring in valuable knowhow; hence the gross capital that flows in yields more than the gross savings abroad.
Resident inventors in Greece, by contrast, filed just 69 patent applications for every million.
The West, by contrast, is transatlantic, and it is a child of the twentieth century.
AQIM, by contrast, made a concerted effort to go native, marrying local Tuaregs in North Maliand taking up their political causes, such as secession.
By contrast, spending reductions could undermine economic activity and increase, not decrease, the public-debt burden.
In contrast, Obama’s goal concerning Iran was modest and focused on denuclearization.
Russia by contrast is a revisionist imperialist power, whose lack of self-confidence is returning to haunt the world.
By contrast, grand coalitions are, in the long term, likely to raise doubts about the system and encourage radical groups.
By contrast, the Treaty of Versailles, too harsh to be honored and too weak to be enforced, paved the way for World War II.
Indeed, one of the keys to our current global disorder is that, in contrast to the Congress of Vienna – or, for that matter, the parties of 1648 – the international system’s main actors are not united by a common will to defend the status quo.
In contrast, the later Victorians, from the 1850’s-1880’s, created major public works and public-welfare initiatives, including state-funded infirmary networks and compulsory primary education.
Yet tentative openings by both Tehran and Washington do not appear ill-fated, in stark contrast to the secret and farcical arms-for-hostages swap that took place under President Reagan in 1986.
By contrast, government services and health care, which together produce more than a quarter of GDP, have had virtually no productivity growth.
For example, the economic historian Robert Gordon argues that today’s innovations pale in contrast to past technological revolutions in terms of their likely economy-wide impact.
By contrast, mainstream economists argued, a technologically advancing industrial society was bound to be different.
With the contrast between the opulent lifestyle of the rich and the slow improvement of living conditions for the poor fomenting social tension, a serious backlash is in the making.
North Korea stands in stark contrast to Cuba’s successful policy of engagement.
By contrast, helping Ukraine to defend itself against Russian aggression would have a stimulative effect on Ukraine and Europe.
By contrast, the mass killing in Rwanda a decade ago and now in Darfur, Sudan, demonstrate the high price of judging sovereignty to be supreme and thus doing little to prevent the slaughter of innocents.
Equally striking is the modesty of the victors, in stark contrast to the usual triumphalism.
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