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It's too early to judge, but it certainly creates a vehicle for Dan Page to contrast himself with his opponent.

It may come as a severe shock if you havent given much thought to this subject beforebut our precious, cast-in-stone, objective beliefs are often totally in contrast to any reality. Or, more accurately, they are our perception of reality, rather than reality itself.

It's good that snow leopards are dispersing and expanding their range on the top of the world, in contrast to other places where they are disappearing.

It's going to be a fun contrast of two very different styles. They want to push everything up and down and we want to get into a half-court game. (Willard) has a great team and we have some great competitors.

(Sunday) was amazing. We upset LSU, but in contrast to that victory, there were about 20,000 people in the arena (Sunday) essentially cheering against you. ... It was my first time (beating Tennessee) and only the second time in program history. So you can imagine what that felt like for all of us. We beat two potential (NCAA) No.1 seeds, and we beat Tennessee on their home floor. That's huge. Not a lot of teams can say that.

It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror!

It's a musical I've never seen, but I've loved the music for some time, ... This is a great, wonderful contrast from making movies.

It was no more than a black slash in the ground, a poignant contrast to the lofty white marble and limestone of this monumental city. It was cut into a gently rising slope of grass An al fresco mortuary.

I try to pick shows that are a contrast for the season. This was just something different.

It would allow millions of small businesses and individuals nationally to own their own health care. Contrast this with Jon Tester, who would raise taxes and give bureaucrats more control over our lives.

They are not using that possibility as a justification for their tightening campaign, in contrast to past years when there was a lot of concern about tightening labor market.

They were both in a stare-down with April. They were deferring to her. Certainly there's a contrast there, but they're both very bright people.

They were such a contrast in style and personality. Otto was a skilled, polished player. Layne was a field general and a swaggering Texan. Their rivalry added a mystique and helped the growth of a league still finding its feet.

They'll probably guarantee the sheriff re-election for years. The federal government has and continues to commit so many missteps in the name of bureaucracy, like the trailers sitting in the mud in Arkansas. Things that just become totally unreasonable to citizens ... turn them against government. You had a local official who understood the plight his citizens were in and acted in contrast to rule-bound bureaucrats up in Washington.

There was a sharp contrast between the treatment meted out to India and Pakistan.

These three pieces contrast with each other. The works are accessible for people not familiar with classical music, so I would recommend this concert.

This is in contrast with some of my other movies where I used Ennio Morricone for his ability to create an epic feel through his music.

That's a sharp contrast to Gore's 'People v. Powerful Business,' delivered last week on Capitol Hill, ... is in the hands of an elite, which embodies wealth and power and represents them at the expense of citizens.

The land is so beautiful. But in contrast to that, the houses are run-down, the poverty is so bad, and there's pollution everywhere.

In fiction, a reaction shot is a brief portrayal of how your character reacts to something that someone else has done. In contrast to more direct character building, your guy doesn't initiate the sequence; he completes it. Exactly how he completes it can tell readers a lot about him.

In contrast to the year-end rally here driven by real estate and other domestic plays, taking a lead now are stocks which have a high correlation with the Nasdaq market.

In contrast to the prescribed right to statewide referendum process, there is no affirmative right under the Maine Constitution which enables citizens to enact local ordinances by petition. This conclusion is in accordance with Maine law.... In conclusion, the city drafted the charter to provide for a citizen's initiative process and the city can amend the charter to limit that process. The proposed amendment is in accordance with state and federal constitutions, as well as state statute.

In contrast to the military, the police are trained and equipped to this end exactly.

In contrast to recent consumer confidence surveys, Canadians seem to show some strong resilience toward investing, even amid rising energy prices and energy-related impacts on equity markets in the past month.

In contrast to IIHS' findings, the U.S. government's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) awarded the Mazda MPV a rating of five-stars, the highest possible score, in both frontal and side impact tests, ... And, of course, the MPV meets or exceeds every NHTSA-required safety standard.

In contrast to Central and Eastern Canada, housing conditions in Western Canada remain very tight and are showing increased signs of speculation. When economic conditions are booming, it can also create the perfect breeding ground for speculative price bubbles to form. That's because in such an environment, housing market participants are at greater risk of developing a case of irrational exuberance, especially if they expect that such exorbitant price gains will continue indefinitely.

In contrast to all prior hypotheses of multiple origins of the cultivated potato, we have identified a single origin from a broad area of southern Peru.

If you have an extreme character, you need normal characters to contrast them. Sherlock Holmes certainly needed a Dr. Watson. And Pippi Longstocking, who supposedly inspired Lisbeth Salander, needed Tommy and Annika, the normal middle-class neighbors.

In teaching color, you teach people how to look something and see the tone in it and break it down to be able to paint it and reproduce that color. But then, I'm psychedelic, so I look at color differently. I like colors that are in contrast with one another, so that they flicker back and forth.

... In my opinion, the article is unjustly hard on Mr. Rove and over-the-top complimentary to me, thereby creating a too-pat contrast that is, I fell, most unfair to Mr. Rove.

I didn't expect to see the stark contrast between the way the people lived and the way things were, and the palace,

because he truly believes that if more people learn about George Bush, they'll see the contrast between Bush and (Vice President Al) Gore, and they'll want to vote for Bush.

By simply hitting on the issues, I think people will note the contrast between the substance of what I'm saying and the lack of it from another quarter,

My friendship with Martin [Schulz], by contrast, is completely different in that it goes far beyond politics.

I did 12 months of work in six months. The film stands in marked contrast to the bridge construction.

I am not prepared to go shuttling back and forth, ... I think that in contrast to other periods of American history, there are an awful lot of other issues that need tending.

How have we managed to dodge the rather obvious point that happiness only makes sense by contrast with sadness - or perhaps with tedium - and that uncertainty, the very essence of imperfection, is our default position?

In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me.

You cannot really have the world and hold on to it. It is all too temporary and the more you try to hold on to it, the more it actually holds you. By contrast, the more you hold on to the true and the good, the more you are free to really live.

The U.N. by contrast is sterile, overly concerned with protocol, overly formal, filled with set-piece speeches. This is what the U.N. in theory is supposed to be but can't.

These hearings are going to be a stark contrast to the Roberts hearings. Can you picture her answering some of the questions that Roberts was asked?

You can see the stark contrast between the neighborhood and what they're putting up. Do you want that in your neighborhood?

The high-gloss black looks a lot classier than that silver gray that's been around for years. It presents a good contrast for the high-definition TVs out there. You're seeing an upscale look on high-end TVs and audio equipment. The whole idea of digital and high-definition plays into that.

'The Help' sheds light on a certain truth in America, but the tragedy is if we don't get a chance to contrast it with other points of views. 'The Butler' does that, 'Red Tails' does that and that's what '96 Minutes' does.

The growth in the economy is not going to families, ... It's in stark contrast to what happened during the Clinton Administration.

The goals are not incompatible. But first things first. New York is a very blue state and for a primary and general election, putting yourself at that level does nothing to lower his chances by any means ... that becomes part of his contrast with the Democratic and Republican challengers. It widens the stature gap.

A man's presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. By contrast, a woman's presence . . . defines what can and cannot be done to her.

I typically go for a more classic aesthetic, though I like to contrast that with bold statement pieces throughout my house.

By close inspection... you will discover the manner of handling the artifices of contrast, glazing, and other expedients, by which good colorists have raised the value of their tints, and by which nature has been so happily imitated.

In contrast to my husband, I can pronounce the word nuclear.

In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself.

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.

The body learns through exaggeration and contrast

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation. . . We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.

We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment from a contrast and very little from a state of things.

In my painting of the 'All -Night Cafe' I've tried to express the idea that the cafe is a place where one can ruin oneself, become crazy and criminal. Through the contrast of the delicate pink, blood red and dark red, of mild Louis XV and Veronese gr

Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

The true contrast between science and myth is more nearly touched when we say that science alone is capable of verification

I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.