Large-scale repurchases, by contrast, are the province of a relatively few firms.

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By contrast, the Swedish Fiscal Policy Council operates on a modest scale, providing an independent review of budgetary plans and performance.

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Mr. ALBERT RIDILLA (Co-Creator, Brumagic MPST Densitometer): To the layman it would be related to contrast, the difference between black and white, and every scale in between.

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By contrast, both Cain and Perry would dump the AMT and sharply scale back individual tax subsidies.

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By contrast, it was not until 2000 that the first large-scale British university campus was established abroad, by the University of Nottingham in Malaysia.

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There was clearly a marked contrast between Wales and the Wallabies - the visitors' improvement was only matched in scale by Wales' deterioration.

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It is chock-full of features that include ASUS Smart Contrast Ratio technology, 100% sRGB color space compatibility, ASUS exclusive QuickFit Virtual Scale, and Splendid Video Intelligence Technology.

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Contrast that with Google, which also has a cash pile, though more modest in scale.

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Train production, by contrast, has until recently been largely national, which made it hard for manufacturers to achieve scale or make widely marketable goods.

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Schoenberg, by contrast, sought to express his inmost feelings in a raw, unmediated way instead of using large-scale tonal architecture to shape them into conventionally coherent structures.

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