Now profane is the opposite of sacred.

The very opposite is the truth.

Academia, by contrast, appears to be moving in the opposite direction. A social science like economics is supposed to be free of partisan vitriol.

Academia, by contrast, appears to be moving in the opposite direction.

parallel to a layer), is different from that in another (e.g.

Now, the opposite of a snob is your mother.

Against these claims, a healthy humanism imposes limits.

My hair would be, contrary to the norm, well styled.

Kitty was no longer struck by this contrast.

The world's poorest countries, by contrast, hardly innovate at all.

Contrary to foreign perceptions, only a handful of Chinese media for example,

Civilization (singular) is, on the contrary, an evaluative moral category the opposite of barbarism.

Their silence on Iraq reflected their apprehension about unwanted alternatives either support the US plan and risk encouraging Kurdish moves toward an independent state, or oppose the Americans and jeopardize a critical strategic relationship.

By contrast, the military had earlier publicly criticized AKP initiatives on Cyprus.

Recent events in Germany, by contrast, are less traditional and more worrying.

By contrast, poor people in China mostly view their personal situation as transitional.

By contrast, despite Americans ambivalence, the US remains a country of immigration.

A good prank is funny, but takes moments to reverse.

Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Communism is the exact opposite.

In contrast to Japan, however, Sweden simultaneously restructured the entire banking sector by closing down inefficient banks.

Vallenilla claimed to be seeking an effective (as opposed to the formal) constitutional system for his country.

You like that one? As opposed to you could see George Bush, well, what's the metaphor there?

Financial judgment, by contrast, is not by its nature open to inspection.

Analog circuits use a continuous range of voltage or current as opposed to discrete levels as in digital circuits.

The impact of soccer globalization on African countries appears to be just the opposite.

Definition Plants are one of the two groups into which all living things were traditionally divided the other is animals.

This trend is completely opposite that prevailing in other sectors.

Finally, in contrast to Arab states like Saudi Arabia, Turkey is generally comfortable with the deal s geopolitical ramifications.

In contrast to the Mexican, Chinese, or Russian revolutions, economic disenfranchisement is not driving the current conflict.

In contrast, West European states do no longer seem so concerned with the political dimension of European integration.

But, contrary to populist rhetoric, it is not just rich, well connected bondholders who get bailed out.

By contrast, grand coalitions are, in the long term, likely to raise doubts about the system and encourage radical groups.

Preaching nationalism, its managers will believe in their universal competence, as opposed to KGB style professionalism and corporatism.

By contrast, youth unemployment contributes relatively much more (about 40 ) to overall unemployment in countries like Sweden and the UK.

It is the result of corruption and brokenness, the very opposite of authentic victory.

By contrast, the financial crisis was hardly an advertisement for expanding the scope of fixed exchange rates.

Europe's presidential prime ministers, on the contrary, are what a British Lord Chancellor once called, elective dictators.

By contrast, on more recent visits to India, I have found my hosts referring to the need to learn from China.

What they said to you is exactly the opposite of what they told me yesterday.

By contrast, the direct costs of a military attack on Saddam Hussein's regime will be minuscule in terms of total US government spending. Most analysts put the total costs of the war at less than 0.1 of GDP, the highest at 0.2 of GDP.

By contrast, the direct costs of a military attack on Saddam Hussein's regime will be minuscule in terms of total US government spending.

They have grown more slowly, and with greater inequality just the opposite of what one would expect.

But the analogy doesn't hold up sociologically. In contrast to fear (the Mafia's stock in trade), hatred cannot be generated and conditioned systematically.

Dying is not the opposite of living we spend our life living while we don't spend our death dying.

By contrast, America has had a continental scale economy immune from nationalist disintegration since 1865. For all the loose talk of American empire, the US is less tethered and has more degrees of freedom than Britain ever had.