Since Ranke and Burckhardt are often used to illustrate diametrically different approaches to historiography, it is important to note that Burckhardt respected the scholarly achievements of his great teacher, and Ranke recognized and commended the ability of his student.
Because each party proffers diametrically different views on how to right the economy, how to provide adequate health care to most Americans, what are necessary services and who should provide them, among other issues of contention.
It incites data brawls, where people shout, yell and labor over figures that just don't seem to align and that point to diametrically different conclusions.
But Republican presidential nominee frontrunner Mitt Romney has a diametrically different, more ingenious approach to public records: the document dump.
One presentation examined the role of bacterial load, asthma, and a hypothesized endotoxin switch that results in diametrically different effects in response to an antigen, depending on the dose and timing of exposure.
Genomic distributions of DNA methylation in invertebrates appear to be diametrically different from this vertebrate pattern (Suzuki et al. 2007; Elango and Yi 2008; Suzuki and Bird 2008).
I wanted to do something diametrically different...
For his appearance in the dock at the Old Bailey, he grew a moustache, and passed as the diametrically different character the police were trying to pin on him, swapping the body of a knowing queer sex worker for that of a nice-but-dim straight boy from the suburbs.
All one has to do is think of divorce proceedings, where the couple has been together for years, to realize that diametrically different perspectives in disputes are the rule, not the exception.
"Unless the facts are diametrically different, there is no risk from this loss to depositors or to taxpayers," he said.
