It is unclear what prompted Mr. Bloomberg to decide that the city could no longer afford the up-front construction payments, since the city's financial outlook, long viewed as troublesome, has not changed markedly since the summer, when he made his comments to the control board.
Countries viewed as traditional, Catholic, and family-oriented inexplicably had markedly lower fertility than those that were Protestant, more secular, and had weaker family ties (Chesnais 1996, p. 729).
Tolstoy's rejection of religious ritual contrasts markedly with his attitude in Anna Karenina, where religion is viewed as a matter not of dogma but of traditional forms of daily life.
Arab-Persian enmity, with a strong undercurrent of rivalry between Sunni and Shia Muslims, dates back centuries but increased markedly after the overthrow of the shah and the Islamic revolution in 1979 and is now viewed as a struggle for hegemony in the region.
Booker is viewed as undecided.
Applicants are viewed as commodities.
The pace of market evolution can vary as markedly as the pace of technological evolution.
The women, too, look different, of course, although not as markedly.
Throughout the colonial period, the French viewed the colony as markedly less important economically and politically than its neighbours, Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire.
Robert Hilburn, writing in the Los Angeles Times, viewed it as a markedly better-produced album that proves the New York Dolls are "the real thing" and hailed it as "perhaps the best example of raw, thumb-your-nose-at-the-world, punk rock since the Rolling Stones Exilee on Main Street".
