Sentence examples for pointed contrast with from inspiring English sources

Mr. Ryan's budget blueprint offers an especially pointed contrast with the pledge.

It's a pointed contrast with the majestic Telefónica tower across town — or the gorgeous Times Building, for that matter.

The party has begun running gauzy television spots asking voters for their forgiveness and declaring its willingness to work with other parties, a pointed contrast with Mr. López Obrador's campaign of permanent harassment.

The Republicans drew a pointed contrast with the treatment of Mr. Clinton's nominees, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who received just three no votes in 1993, and Justice Stephen G. Breyer, opposed by just nine senators in 1994.

But just as with Derek Jeter's return Sunday, Curtis Granderson's rejoining the Yankees on Friday served as a pointed contrast with the Yankee who so desperately wants to come back but may be prevented from doing so.

It would be a struggle to find a more pointed contrast with the monied, decidedly Gallic spa town on which the England roadshow descended several weeks ago and left last Sunday, after the ardour with which the players' entourages approached Baden-Baden's bars and shops failed to materialise anywhere within a hundred yard exclusion zone of an England game.

In December, the debate intensified, with some aides suggesting Mr. Edwards should draw more pointed contrasts with Dr. Dean, then high in the polls, if not attack him outright.

Instead, Al Jazeera's Afghanistan coverage supplies a pointed contrast between the high-tech foreign power, with its stealth planes and Tomahawk missiles, and the Taliban warriors, with their pickup trucks racing through stark, rubble-strewn landscapes.

In a pointed contrast to Mr. Walker, Ms. Gregoire said that when she negotiated with public-employee unions, they had agreed to certain sacrifices on pay and health benefits, as well as changes in their pensions.

It was a pointed contrast to Mr. Giuliani, who never once campaigned in this race with his family and who announced this month that he had a "very good" female friend and was seeking a separation from his wife, Donna Hanover.

That was in pointed contrast to the Democrat-controlled United States Congress, whose leadership has refused to ratify a trade agreement with Colombia.