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A person familiar with the matter said Microsoft's new proposal included five years of revenue guarantees as opposed to three years.

This was a rare case of a parcel bomb (as opposed to a baggage bomb) crashing an airliner.

Become known as a person who wants to hear humorous true stories as opposed to an inpidual who prefers to hear gossip, suggests Robertson.

In Kantian philosophy, the appearance of an object to the mind as opposed to its existence in and of itself , independent of the mind.

The designs and images on the surface of a tapestry are woven into the cloth as opposed to being only on the surface of the cloth.

Idealism is often contrasted with materialism, both belonging to the class of monist as opposed to dualist or pluralist ontologies.

In the early years, it was unclear how much Mr. Gates was pursuing each opportunity as it came, as opposed to carrying out a grand strategy.

"How weird do they have to be suggest a second genesis as opposed to just an obscure branch of the family tree? " he said.

I think that she was trying to get with what Nim is, as opposed to what others were trying to make him.

None of these justifications takes account of the institutional, as opposed to reputational, cost of these new friendships.

It was as if it was relying on a typewriter as opposed to a social network.

In other words, real leadership is what you believe and how you think and act, AKA, MAP, as opposed to your position.

6 as opposed to the government of Canada, to which he was trying to avoid paying taxes.

The dynamic type of an object (as opposed to a reference or pointer) is always the same as the static type of the object.

Its profile is now vertical at the top as opposed to the bottom, with the bottom, not the top, sloping outwards.

It will also demonstrate how much more difficult it is to speak a second language on the phone as opposed to face to face.

You should do what you know is right as opposed to what other people tell you is right.

As opposed to these tangential references, Wikipedia has also been used for more significant facts.

She is always thinking about her career and role as a leader, as opposed to her role as a woman, a person, a human being.

But it's not that the campaign isn't trying to speak to the youth of today, as opposed to the youth of decades ago.

But you're better off setting flags -- and nothing else -- in a signal handler, as opposed to trying to create sophisticated handlers.

In the short-run, as opposed to the long-run, at least one of these factors of production is fixed.

But even judged purely on what he had to say - as opposed to why he said it - Mr Brown was wrong on every substantive point he made.

They provide small, high-value point solutions as opposed to trying to achieve enterprise-wide integration nirvana.

The nations of the world must see that the human genome belongs to the world's people, as opposed to its nations.

Slowly but surely your teams will start coming to you as opposed to you trying to 'sell' them on the value of reuse!

A map view of a particular reflection in a 3D seismic survey, as opposed to a horizontal (depth) slice or at a given time (a time slice).

Why do you think Shen Wei was chosen to help choreograph for the 2008 Olympics as opposed to a more local modern dance company?

Since the Democrats control Washington, DC, the only Republicans changing things (as opposed to merely blocking change) are in the states.

It is actually better for you to take several mini vacations throughout the year, as opposed to one longer one.

Would you be interested in an exchange as opposed to a refund? I think I can help you to find the appropriate size.

It was what he said as opposed to how he said it-another paradigm shift for the genre.

Please keep this is mind as you consider downloading the Release Candidate as opposed to waiting for the general availability release.

Most people think in terms of what they don't want as opposed to what they do want, and their attitudes reflect this.

As opposed to printing gold, silver, and gold seal products of metal to sweep of the texture to a strong and high gloss, finishing well.

Dan Gillmor: I think we are going to see more of the content that people create themselves as opposed to what's created for them.

This also allows you to denote that the encoding of the images is binary (as opposed to the textual encoding of the main message).

The word is recorded around 1796 in a slang usage particular to Cambridge University, "a townsman as opposed to a townsman. "

It was easier to detect illness and marks of disease on a woman with pale skin as opposed to a woman with darker skin.

Irrigation starts to make you be allowed to plant stuff where you want it, as opposed to where the rivers flood.

As opposed to when you do your mid-term, B like that I got A and I got B, I guess I can't be a public accountant.

There was a whole forest in Leavesden as opposed to just sections, which we would have had in Star Wars.

You might as well emerge at some future point as the owner of income-generating systems as opposed to a lifelong wage slave.

Here you give it a value of Monmouth as opposed to Donzai, which was the value in the XML document that you read earlier.

By contrast, chimps and bonobos walk more flexibly, 'with their wrists in a bent position as opposed to being stacked-up, ' she said.

The best practice is to have many columns in a row, as opposed to linking different rows across different tables via key columns.

Republicans remain just as opposed to any kind of tax increase.

"We're turning it into a business, as opposed to a path where everybody's supposed to service 'Avatar, ' " Mr. Pace said.

In many countries young people that are still living at home need somewhere to meet up as opposed to say a public park. Take your pick. . .

Traditionally, firm referred to a partnership, as opposed to a company.

Jake failed to realize that Vienna lives heavily in an emotional world, as opposed to his logical one.

You maneuver yourself around the classroom and enable the children to learn as opposed to telling them and kind of spoon feeding them.

The shape of the dumpling took the form of a cone as opposed to a sphere .

"The back office should be pushing the front office, as opposed to the other way around. "

mary likes to go shopping in her spare time , as opposed to lucy , who prefers to stay at home reading.

Only the commit is in the log (note the long, random-looking commit ID as opposed to the SVN revision number).

This was done because the right-click context menu is bound to the entire tree as a whole, as opposed to one for each node of the tree.

As opposed to what had been expected initially, there are only minor modifications concerning the contents of the regulation.

A value-type variable contains its data directly as opposed to a reference-type variable, which contains a reference to its data.

The company also asks that you cache results locally as opposed to requesting the same status repeatedly.

But if you want to see real Arabia, as opposed to a mass of shopping malls and luxury hotels, there is a far better option: Oman.

This allows for a shorter learning curve as opposed to an equivalent mapping specification in a completely proprietary language.

If you have someone to your home then you have to be a hostess as opposed to being able to just relax and have dinner.

The routing from a proxy server can be thought of as "application scoped, " as opposed to the "cluster scoped" routing of the HTTP plug-in.

It. After the talk you can play the video at home and see how good you really are as opposed to how good you think you are.

Most people are more willing to say "yes" to small, clear, manageable goals as opposed to large, confusing and complicated ones.

The depth of the reef on the charts as opposed to any newly calculated depth may emerge during forthcoming court hearings.

Preliminary tests with an overlay screen showed that driver safety performance improved, as opposed to a head-down navigation system.

However, this does not explain the special appeal of religious ideas as opposed to any bizarre ideas.

This involved putting as much of the index as possible in actual computer memory as opposed to the pokier, less reliable hard disk drives.

It also highlights the relative attractiveness of equity, as opposed to debt, financing at a time when Asian company valuations have soared.

For Bynum, it's a different season, a different knee and a different injury, a torn ligament as opposed to a dislocated kneecap.

Logic circuit in general comes under a branch of electronics known as digital applications as opposed to linear or analogue applications.

This genetic variant seems to predispose people to depositing visceral fat as opposed to the more benign subcutaneous fat.

Rigidity looks to be key in the back end of the covered up car, as opposed to the smoothness seen in the drawing.

The key to system wide success (as opposed to individual success) is still employees working together under the leadership of good managers.

Mobility is needed to make those choices - this explains why parents are just as opposed to raising the driving age as teenagers are.

Interest in one's environment or in others as opposed to or to the exclusion of oneself.

To date, it has been unclear to what extent organic, carbon-containing material remains on lake bottoms, as opposed to being broken down.

If present, indicates that the file will be generated by an application on the client, as opposed to being downloaded.

Blood flow to the heart muscle itself (as opposed to the pumping chambers) stops, so the muscle dies and the heart stops beating.

If there are cells in my body that live all 80 years, as opposed to a typical, you know, couple of months?

Nominal Value The stated value of an issued security that remains fixed, as opposed to its market value, which fluctuates.

Not quite; let's extend the example a bit by projecting out only the customer's name, as opposed to the entire customer object.

Ideally you can avoid boring topics, but if you can't think of anything else to say, then go with them as opposed to be quiet.

"You have to think of the smart grid as a cell phone, as opposed to your grandmother's black rotary phone, " he says.

lentic Living in swamp, pond, lake or any other standing or slow moving water, as opposed to lotic or running waters.

As opposed to verifying a time threshold on a method (or series of methods) in a test scenario, JUnitPerf also facilitates load testing.

Nearly three-quarters of women also feel sending flirtatious emails is cheating, as opposed to 53 percent of men.

In terms of the Red Bull X-Alps, do you think you are at a disadvantage living in China as opposed to the guys in the Alps?

Nearly three-quarters of women also feel sending flirtatious emails is cheating, as opposed to 53 percent of men.

In terms of the Red Bull X-Alps, do you think you are at a disadvantage living in China as opposed to the guys in the Alps?

The SQL statements from the dynamic queries (as opposed to the named queries) cannot be generated by the static generator.

Stack also conducted the only study to examine whether murder-suicide (as opposed to suicide alone) is associated with copycat crimes.

"People are willing to take a state-subsidized train as opposed to an unsubsidized bus, " Utt says.

MTI was diagnosed in 26. 7% of the children with a known TB contact, as opposed to 6. 4% of the children without such contact.

And you probably identify more with your mind (your collective cellular intelligence) as opposed to your physical body anyway.

These accounts might be dubbed the medical, as opposed to material, explanations for inequality's bad effects.

The style sheet layer is completely independent from the service layer in terms of the content as opposed to the tags.

All groups can be sold holidays, but must be viewed through this financial model as opposed to previous social definitions.

All groups can be sold holidays, but must be viewed through this financial model as opposed to previous social definitions.

Cash Market The market for a cash commodity or actual, as opposed to its futures contract .

You'll use these arrows later in "tracing back" to construct an actual LCS (as opposed to just discovering the length of one).

I believe it's going to be more of a sovereign-fiscal issue as opposed to an interest-rate issue.

This workload balancing can be modified such that it applies at the transaction level as opposed to the connection level.

Using full words and sentences, as opposed to abbreviations and codes makes your text easier to understand.

The production process is described in terms of sets of tasks as opposed to the conventional combination of different inputs.

It's a sort of thin-client approach, as opposed to the "damn the bandwidth, load the servlet" approach of Java.

But all this presupposes that, as regards inferences as opposed to percepts, there is some impersonal standard of correctness.

'The single biggest reason companies fail , ' says Mr. Hamel, 'is that they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be . '

'The single biggest reason companies fail , ' says Mr. Hamel, 'is that they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be . '

The money will be used to develop projects around Symbian, as opposed to going directly to the foundation itself.

Containers allow for objects to be configured by the container, as opposed to being configured by the client application.

insulates the well off from the poor, and is utilised increasingly by private as opposed to public interests.

As opposed to rankings, all of these other tools can answer questions about where graduates from a particular school have found employment.

"If you're going to accent your look with a waist belt, choose wider styles as opposed to super skinny belts, " Albanese advises.

And that meant actually designing custom technology as opposed to just buying things off the shelf and putting them to use.

I believe the ability to single-task (as opposed to multi-task) is one of the keys to true productivity.

American values -- as opposed to its political system -- will have global appeal for generations.

When a relationship is over, it's easier to think of the good times as opposed to the bad times.

When a relationship is over, it's easier to think of the good times as opposed to the bad times.

In this case, the function invocation must be accomplished using a POST request (as opposed to a GET request).

This difference in structural as opposed to behavioral systematics may be entirely due to the limitations of human observation and insight.

Tycoons: self-made adventurers who enliven the business landscape; as opposed to despots who have stolen their fortunes from the poor.

This means taking into account power and cooling and the payoff in terms of three or more years as opposed to just acquisition cost.

Desire, as opposed to impulse, has, it is true, a large and increasing share in the regulation of men's lives.

First is the concept of a 32-bit address space, as opposed to a 64-bit address space.

I can deal with it, I can handle it. I have the internal as well as external resources to deal with it, as opposed to being helpless.

This requires a decoration color design should be introduced in a balanced, brilliant and held up, as opposed to floating, harmony together.

Hydroxyl is HO, as opposed to water's H2O, and it is usually the result of water molecules decomposing.

Hydroxyl is HO, as opposed to water's H2O, and it is usually the result of water molecules decomposing.

Post-modern doubts referring to here as opposed to modern concepts and the nature, history and the universalism of such a state of mind.

Live API calls can be made directly within the documentation, providing realtime payload data as opposed to static examples.

There are always people who like the more modern beads and jewelry as opposed to the more traditional bead jewelry designs.

Narrow-angle cameras, as opposed to wide-angle cameras, are equipped to photograph specific details in an area of interest.

And second, they'll need new hires with a broad range of skills, including project management and risk management, as opposed to pure IT.

This approach is more efficient as opposed to spending compute cycles to figure it out.

Running towards the basket while holding the T button results in a dunk, as opposed to a layup if the T button isn't pulled.

Why are we not addressing some of these things first as opposed to building a cultural district?

Lee has again and again stressed the need for his tiny nation to develop its own Singaporean--as opposed to Chinese-identity.

Lee has again and again stressed the need for his tiny nation to develop its own Singaporean--as opposed to Chinese-identity.

It is important to note here that this Ajax implementation uses a POST, as opposed to a GET, to process the request.

Exactly, as opposed to a deduction whereas, if the premises are true the conclusion must be true.

The share of income earned by labour, as opposed to capital, has fallen over the course of a generation.

For the last several years, bleeding-edge technologists have opted to validate their XML documents with XSD as opposed to DTD.

In such a hierarchy, subprocesses tend to be embedded, as opposed to independent, which is detrimental to achieving re-use.

You can edit the server code for the page when you are working with a single-file page (as opposed to a page with a code-behind file).

Just to see the Japanese as opposed to their assignments, and the non-use of the spoken Japanese and Japanese is not how become good at.

Fifty-three percent of women talk to their friends about what's stressing them out, as opposed to 29 percent of men.

It is offered for creating self-employment for income-generating activities and housing for the poor, as opposed to consumption.

Glass is sometimes said to be a super-cooled fluid as opposed to a solid.

American and Soviet leaders clearly tried to shape strategy, but did they really struggle to save souls (as opposed to lives)?

You still acknowledge the fact that something might go wrong but you don't get stuck on it (as opposed to negative realism).

As opposed to constructive possession. When the owner of a property occupies the property on a day-to-day basis.

Measured production The actual production of a farmer as measured, as opposed to the estimated production.

Usage note: A dildo generally refers to a toy with no moving parts, as opposed to a VIBRATOR which includes an electric motor and vibrates.

This Act closed a loophole that had previously allowed mergers based on acquisition of a corportation's assets as opposed to its stock.

Friedman and Mandelbaum at one point praise the beauty of solutions that rise from the bottom up as opposed to the top down.

When home prices stop going down, newly created households will be more willing to take a chance on ownership as opposed to renting.

thus engaging with communities, as opposed to with some faceless religious body, might be more productive and focus efforts.

thus engaging with communities, as opposed to with some faceless religious body, might be more productive and focus efforts.

At each point where the macro is waiting for its next screen, HATS again uses a "first fit" policy, as opposed to a "best fit" policy.

Entrepreneur: an individual who takes risks to build a business; as opposed to a spiv who should not be trusted.

Every single person who comes up to me after watching the show comments on "How skinny I am in person as opposed to when I'm on TV" .

Romantic novels, as opposed to realistic ones, tend to present idealized versions of life, often with a happy ending.

Merchants speak of a 'full' wine or wine with body, as opposed to a light, cold, or thin wine.

You were less aware of yourself as a separate entity, your "I-ness" as opposed to the outside world.

The source library is a file with a . tlb extension, as opposed to a . dll extension.

broke or other pager waste as opposed to virgin fibre from trees. Also called Recovered fibres, Secondary fibres.

"We consider these initiatives are a superior outcome for Rio's credit quality as opposed to the Chinalco deal, " Nomura International said.

"We consider these initiatives are a superior outcome for Rio's credit quality as opposed to the Chinalco deal, " Nomura International said.

The original words of something written or printed, as opposed to a paraphrase, translation, revision, or condensation.

Chronic, as opposed to acute, subdural hematomas occur when blood accumulates gradually within the skull cavity over a period of time.

Using DNA, as opposed to proteins made by a microbe, elicits a more vigorous, aggressive response from the immune system.

But the real, comprehensive fiscal union needed to restore faith in the euro, as opposed to a few new rules, remains elusive.

But nobody has levelled credible charges of deliberate manipulation, as opposed to incompetence by the independent election commission.

segmented Divided, particulate; used to describe egg yolk in larval fishes as opposed to homogenous .

Here, the content itself is the entire SOAP part of the message (as opposed to the SOAP message itself, which might include attachments).

The securing device provides for securing the fixation device in a uniform, single movement as opposed to currently available products.

the process of printing from a surface on which the printing areas are not raised but are ink-receptive (as opposed to ink repellent).

the process of printing from a surface on which the printing areas are not raised but are ink-receptive (as opposed to ink repellent).

The VQA also trademarked the word "icewine" (as opposed to ice wine) as another way to communicate VQA-approved ice wines.

Additionally, there may have been an increase in informal complaints, as opposed to formal complaints.

But nobody has leveled credible charges of deliberate manipulation, as opposed to incompetence by the independent election commission.

All concentrated thoughts are extremely powerful, like a laser as opposed to an incandescent bulb.

Domain Name address is the "plain English " address of a computer on the Internet , as opposed to is numeric IP address.

This should be positive on a long-term basis, but negative in the near-term as credit is in effect destroyed as opposed to created.

Binaries Binary, machine readable forms of programs which have been compiled or assembled. As opposed to source language forms of programs.

In the photon picture, an electron literally absorbs a blast of energy as opposed to a gradual trickle .

The advantage of a strongly-typed definition is that you can share it across files and assemblies, as opposed to the using alias.

But durable economic effects, as opposed to physical ones, are so far hard to spot.

'This way someone sees a qualified IT professional who happened to be an accountant as opposed to the other way around, ' she says.

To be sure, a so-called "manufacturing renaissance" will likely come in trickles as opposed to waves.

It establishes a framework using which a SOE can be realized as opposed to a design paradigm.

It responds to the urban context of the Expo Park and is outward looking as opposed to being an introverted box .

Wealth creation: the rewards of adding value to the economic system; as opposed to predatory gains seized by those at the top.

In a pure market economy all productive activities are privately owned, as opposed to being owned by the state.

Agonized over the speed of passing parameters as opposed to filling in a structure and passing that?

Why would a Linux or even a Windows developer want to use Eclipse, as opposed to one of the GUI widget toolboxes?

Common speech language was used, and the exact word was always to be used, as opposed to the almost exact word.

A program in execution, a process is an active entity, which can cause things to occur, as opposed to a program, which is a passive entity.

Thus, the key issue is now capacity utilization, as opposed to maximum designed output capacity.

It's more of a business innovation for us as opposed to a technology innovation.

In addition, these principles concentrate on the utility of these interfaces as opposed to the artistic or emotional impact.

Your virtual application can then connect to this existing database as opposed to creating its own.

We'll wait until it's more of a catastrophe, and react, as opposed to prepare for it.

Chellaney laments what he regards as India's folly in recognising Chinese sovereignty (as opposed to de facto control) over Tibet.

So in a very real sense, the political (as opposed to the geographic) "west" has Russia surrounded.

Some people say Patricia Barber is a sellout because she's a popular jazz musician as opposed to a starving jazz musician.

In Korea people eat short-grained rice, as opposed to the long-grained Indian rice.

Community colleges offer a two-year "associate" degree, as opposed to a normal four-year " bachelors " degree.

Pages look significantly different when they contain a single word or two as opposed to several lines of text.

"I don't believe that anybody is above the law, " he responded, but "we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards. "

When we used to travel, we'd be invited to stay at his customers' homes as opposed to a hotel.

We have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of computing, as opposed to the business potential.

Contemporary theories emphasize the importance of a holistic perspective and promote the idea of identity as opposed to self-concept.

In the U. S. this narrative gets created of "sex ed vs. the parents" as opposed to those two working in complementary fashion.

They're making decisions now for future generations as opposed to the next quarter, and that is just fundamentally different.

It's like quickly thumbing through a magazine as opposed to staring at a table of contents.

bakufu , Military rule of the country by a hereditary shogun, as opposed to rule by the imperial court and the emperor.

bakufu , Military rule of the country by a hereditary shogun, as opposed to rule by the imperial court and the emperor.

It focuses on developing the actual software system incrementally in each iteration, as opposed to producing project-related documentation.

Permission to be employed in this manner is issued to an individual, as opposed to an employer.

Although this limit applies only to GET (as opposed to POST) requests, it is still a good rule of thumb to follow.

GIF, like JPG, is an older filetype, and one generally associated with the internet as opposed to photography.

The new rear suspension allows the spare tire to be stored inside the vehicle as opposed to underneath.

At present, sales to women in Chinese stores, on average, account for 50 per cent of the total, as opposed to 60 per cent in other markets.

Worrying about penis size, as opposed to the fact of the measurement itself, can have a detrimental effect on your sex life.

It focuses on developing the actual method incrementally in each iteration, as opposed to simply producing project-related documentation.

A local printer is one which is directly connected to your computer (as opposed to a network printer, discussed in the following section).

A local printer is one which is directly connected to your computer (as opposed to a network printer, discussed in the following section).

This system works with straights and arcs, as opposed to splines, for a fast and accurate method of laying down track.

Internal migration (as opposed to immigration) between the countryside and cities.

Due to the application of statistical techniques-by-one, as opposed to the old dragon and tiger Kanpan accuracy greatly enhanced.

There may be some truth to this; design (as opposed to coding or debugging) is certainly my strongest skill.

The terms if English version, as opposed to the Chinese translation, shall be deemed to be conclusive and definitive.

Rather than seeing emotions as opposed to rationality, psychologists frequently describe them as vital components of reason.

And in that sense, it was the myth that I was chasing as opposed to knowing who he really was.

Electric fans are more efficient than air conditioning units, but they only move air around as opposed to actually cooling it.

It would be free verse as opposed to classical rhymes or classical forms.

It would be free verse as opposed to classical rhymes or classical forms.

students or emotion excited or disturbed Whisper, as opposed to mass review time, the performance of interval is also a drop in the ocean.

To talk about an 'emotional crowd' as opposed to a 'rational crowd', therefore, doesn't make sense.

In my opinion, a couple who argue together stay together. As opposed to a couple who can't even be bothered to react any more.

Siemens is a company that rightly prides itself on its orientation towards long-term gain as opposed to short-term profits.

The team spent some time debating the merits of creating facades as opposed to using an evolving product for early demonstrations.

It is run by professional managers as opposed to the amateurs with a love of sport who were in charge in the past.

It is also considered one of the key best practices for managing complex systems to prevent problems, as opposed to troubleshooting them.

Of, relating to, or being the simple uncompared degree of an adjective or adverb, as opposed to either the comparative or superlative.

Students had a heated discussion about the ideas of the author, as opposed to just copying from the books.