Draft guideline 3.1.13 sought to reconcile the two apparently contrasting views.

The explanation below was achieved by comparing and contrasting a variety of different theories.

This increased competitiveness results from new knowledge and learning acquired in contrasting foreign cultures. Subsidiaries of SINTNCs are also able to gain differentiated experience and expertise that would otherwise not be made available.

But will emerging market cities be healthy enough to drive rapid economic growth? The issues that preoccupy health policymakers and practitioners in Lima, Cairo, Kolkata, and Jakarta reflect contrasting climates, geographies, histories, and cultures.

DENVER A senior Russian diplomat, in contrasting North Korea and Iran, once said to me The North Koreans are like neighborhood children with matches. The Iranians are who we really need to worry about.

The contrasting decision cited in the appeal to the Supreme Court was not an appropriate example, since the workers to whom it applied were professional firemen whose working hours corresponded to their jobs as firemen.

Moreover, Al Qaeda uses poetry to address the challenges that it faces. Contrasting its fighters bravery and commitment with the comfort of Muslim bystanders, Al Qaeda tries to rally more fighters to its cause in Iraq.

Different experts, studies, and organizations adopt contrasting but often equally legitimate and scientifically founded perspectives on these questions. To try to enforce a single definitive interpretation is deeply misleading, and thus unhelpful and potentially dangerous in policymaking.

But sometimes this can be an advantage. An insider knows best how to reconcile contrasting interests and how to get the institutional machinery moving again, as Juncker showed with his deft handling of the distribution of tasks among the individual Commissioners.

In 2004 and 2006, I was involved in conducting two nationwide public opinion surveys in Iraq. Contrasting the findings of these surveys demonstrates that over the two years when sectarian violence has increased, Iraqis increasingly view their fate in a national, rather than communal, context.

Here again, the contrasting styles of Obama and McCain offer a clear choice between a calm and confident man and a highly emotional one, between a major change in the nation s direction and a minor one, between a conciliatory style and a more combative one.