Contrast
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The long-term implications of the agreement stand in sharp
contrast
both to Obama’s February 2010 budget proposal and to the Republicans’ counter-proposal.
The final component of the agreement is temporary acceleration of tax depreciation, allowing firms in 2011 to write off 100% of capital investment immediately, in
contrast
to the current rule, which stipulates a 50% immediate write-off, followed by depreciation of the remaining 50% over the statutory life of the equipment.
As one former adviser put it, he was “irresistibly drawn to Big Ideas like bringing democracy to the Middle East, Big Ideas that stood in sharp
contrast
to the prudent small ball played by his father.”
By contrast, a no vote would at least open the possibility that Greece, with its strong democratic tradition, might grasp its destiny in its own hands.
In
contrast
to last year, when the rush home for the lunar New Year celebration was hampered by freak storms, this year millions of migrant workers have already returned to their rural homes.
By contrast, Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed that human nature is malleable, but that our original state was one without reason, language, or community.
By contrast, someone adopting an existentialist philosophy along the lines of Jean-Paul Sartre or Simone de Beauvoir might believe that because “existence precedes essence,” we are radically free to shape our lives according to our own choices, and do not need God to help us along.
By contrast, China’s working-age population has been shrinking, by more than three million annually, since 2012 – a trend that will, with a 4-6-year lag, cause labor-supply growth to decline, and even turn negative.
France and Southern European countries, by contrast, argue that governments need more flexibility to decide on fiscal and structural reforms, and that governments with greater fiscal leeway should help to address current imbalances by increasing their public expenditures.
In the cyber world, by contrast, actors are diverse (and sometimes anonymous), physical distance is immaterial, and some forms of offense are cheap.
The present US administration, by contrast, seems to put a much higher priority on war and the rhetoric of war.
We see this
contrast
being acted out on the ground.
In
contrast
to development finance, the incentives of potential lenders and borrowers are not aligned.
By contrast, productivity growth, the deepening of automation, or the creation of entirely new tasks would increase labor demand and push up wages.
By contrast, respondents underestimate social mobility in northern states – including Vermont, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Washington – where it is higher.
Conservatives, by contrast, remained unmoved.
For women in the developing world, by contrast, dying in childbirth is simply a fact of life.
In
contrast
to the Great Depression, collapsing national output was in recent decades accompanied by accelerating inflation, not deflation.
In contrast, US home prices were uneventful before the Great Depression, and actually fell slightly in real terms between 1925 and 1929.
In contrast, real oil prices were flat leading up to 1929, and down nearly 50% in real terms from the 1925-6 “fuel folly” peaks.
The
contrast
with other regions’ economic leaders is telling.
By contrast, the younger Hu has narrowed the public space for political discourse that had opened up during the latter years of his predecessor, Jiang Zemin, when market pressure was forcing media outlets to be more daring and wide-ranging.
Some patients, by contrast, suffer at the opposite extreme of dysfunction.
Russia’s regime, by contrast, is animated by money, not ideology.
In short, moderate political forces still enjoy the support of more than 70% of Germans – in
contrast
with, say, Austria, where the far right was able to gain 36% in the first round of presidential elections.
In
contrast
to the Commission, the stated intention of a growing number of member states is to limit appropriation commitments to 1% of GDP.
In
contrast
to his two predecessors – the saintly Nelson Mandela, who emphasized racial healing, and the aristocratic Thabo Mbeki, who reassured financiers with his strong grasp of macroeconomics – Zuma recognizes the pent-up demand for material improvement in the lives of his country’s tens of millions of have-nots.
(By contrast, reconstruction in Iraqi Kurdistan is occurring at breakneck speed.)
Europeans, by contrast, don’t have that option.
One cannot help but
contrast
this with Budanov, the rapist and murderer who is now free to move about Russia at will.
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