Sentence examples for trying to contrast from inspiring English sources

The union is trying to contrast those costs with healthy profits at the high-end department store, which has experienced a resurgence over the last several years.

3 Turn the rice out on to a dish, and then lay out stripes of each of the "jewels" across the top in pretty little rows, trying to contrast the colours.

Many see him as a successful governor with a good economic record who shares their values and background, one that he is now trying to contrast with Mitt Romney by suggesting that his chief rival was born holding "four aces".

The Conservative party chairman, Eric Pickles, has an unfortunate typo in his latest tweet, in which (I assume) he was trying to contrast his sartorial preferences with those of the prime minister: my shits are from M&S RT @henrymacrory: SUPREME LEADER: Even his flunkeys have monogrammed shirts and cufflinks!

And when Mr. Clinton reminded the audience of his own personal journey to the White House from a small-town boyhood, he seemed to be trying to contrast himself with the pampered upbringing of Governor Bush, who is seen by many Americans as a man they can empathize with more than Mr. Gore.

He kept throwing up the amount of money Reiner had raised while trying to contrast "classes and masses".

I tried to contrast the endless process of stuff with the almost geological calm of the nation beneath all this".

When he re-entered Germany with the Ninth Army, he tried to contrast the country he left at the beginning of the war with the nation he found.

Labour MPs and opposition parties are expecting the PBR to be the most political for years as Labour tries to contrast its own approach with Conservative party pledges to cut taxes for the most well-off.

But he added that it was unfair to try to contrast Drew's coaching abilities with those of Krzyzewski, who has been to 10 Final Fours and won 3 national titles at Duke.

A Sept. 3 column by Joe Nocera tries to contrast my views with those of Jeffrey D. Sachs ("Fighting Poverty, and Critics"), but I take issue with Mr. Nocera's characterization of the conclusions of my book "Emerging Africa".