Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cited the Indian subcontinents and New Guinea as being very diverse, each with thousands of different languages. In contrast, in places like tropical southeast Asia, people speak very similar languages and look very similar as well, he said...
...said that in Eurasia, migration of domesticated animals and crops was easy because the climate and conditions are relatively the same across most of the continent. The Americas, by contrast, have dramatically different climates from north to south, making migration, and thus diversification, difficult...
...requires special training," she says. "Every member is trained to deal with explosives, every member has medical training, and the team trains year-round. The close-quarter combat skills you need to handle something like Littleton have to be constantly kept sharp." Local SWAT teams like Littleton's, by contrast, tend to train once a month. Equipment and specialized training varies wildly from team to team, and indeed the Littleton team did not have explosives training...
Shakespeare is an amazing poet who makes the meaning of every line clear, in contrast to modern drama, where a lot is left unsaid, Henley-Cohn says...
Juxtaposed with the speaker's explanation (NOT READABLE) Labyrinth, and later he refers directly to Virgil and Homer. Relaying a dialogue in which a simple man assumes El Salvador is somewhere in Southern Alabama, the speaker--in contrast--demonstrates his own learning. "When Mongols conquered the Chinese..." he begins the eleventh stanza, immediately before which he describes a voice as "the London cockney of a Lebanese immigrant." Thus, the speaker in the elegy is separated...