That positive energy contrasts starkly with the decadent beauty of Paris, a city that is on a path of museification.

It has many contrasts.

Ours is a region of cruel contrasts.

(narrator) There are ever greater contrasts.

Let's think about this as a series of contrasts.

They also often offer examples of sharp contrasts in achievements.

It's a country of such contrasts, but it's a nation of nations.

This contrasts with uninterrupted growth between 1986 and 1990.

Akihito s travel schedule contrasts sharply with that of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Indeed, EU trade power contrasts sharply with the perception of a weakened Europe.

The contrasts in reporting, however, are greatest among development groups.

The status quo contrasts sharply with high level policy statements.

Indeed, today s US predicament contrasts sharply only with the current experiences of developing Asia.

Africa is undoubtedly the region most affected by the contrasts of the contemporary world.

It's called the Altiplano, or high plains a place of extremes and extreme contrasts.

But it is the ideological picture that presents the starkest contrasts.

my hair isn't yellow but it contrasts nicely with the black.

That mix of contrasts has the potential to seriously destabilize our societies and ways of living.

It is an example of harmonious and civilized coexistence in a society marked by contrasts.

Each National Health Service has different policies and priorities, resulting in contrasts.

When you stand still, you just see the light and dark contrasts.

Approach the city and you see the urban center of the world a hard and harried place, marked by social contrasts as dizzying as its skyscrapers and with a sense of transience as elevated as its buildings.

And we'll be talking much more about those contrasts in presentations to come.

We live not only in a time of great changes, but also in a world of great contrasts.

The world is a study in contrasts nowadays. We are haunted by images of terror and warfare.

CAMBRIDGE China and Russia have just provided the world with sharp contrasts in the use of power.

Yet I found everything irresistible, the city s rhythms and colors, its contrasts and surprises.

This contrasts with the growth in the number of women employed and the significant increase of women among entrepreneurs.

This contrasts with mixed languages, where speakers tend to be fluent in one or both of the source languages.

To guarantee their understanding of stability, the tandem contrasts the continuous middle class protests with a wave of regime orchestrated demonstrations.

41. The declining importance of such agreements contrasts sharply with the recent successes of coffee and aluminium producers in boosting prices.

This contrasts markedly with other OECD countries where average consumption of nuclear energy is around 23.8 per cent of energy use.

WASHINGTON, DC As we enter 2011, the Euro Atlantic region is a study in strategic contrasts.

This contrasts with Kyoto, where the so called Annex I developed countries adopted essentially identical targets.

21 A minimum standards approach contrasts with approaches that require management plans or other pre approval.

This contrasts sharply with China and India, both of which have several world class universities, especially in science and engineering.

That contrasts sharply with, for example, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development average of 8,000 kilowatt hours per year.

We all share the sense of both risk and opportunity that arise from the contrasts and uncertainties of the current global order.

Behind this pattern lies a policy philosophy which contrasts the efficiency of foreign firms with the distortionary economic impact of the state.

Like them or not, Carter and Reagan offered sharp contrasts in how they dealt with Latin America.

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As has often been stated, we live in a time of great contrasts that are also reflected at the United Nations.

It is a picture of contrasts bright spots in a few areas, but dark shadows still being cast over other regions.

Comparisons and contrasts with the Great Depression of the 1930 s have inevitably become a central part of that discourse and rightly so.

Although both men have warily embraced the 700 billion bailout of the financial sector, the contrasts between the two men are sharp.