It would be hard to find a bigger contrast with the gung-ho, monosyllabic culture that turned RBS into an acquisition machine.
Standard mutual funds, by contrast, are hard to front-run: They are required to disclose their portfolios quarterly, and with a delay.
It is the contrast between this hard service, and the expectation of further cuts that leaves so many in the army upset by current policies.
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By contrast, it is hard to know how much weight to give in such decisions to the remote chance of a financial meltdown.
Their daughter, Rhoda, by contrast, is a hard-working vet who cares for animals better than many of the characters care for their friends and families.
Two miles away in the town of Battle, by contrast, it's hard to escape reminders that this has long been thought the site of the clash.
In contrast, the general public has a hard time even getting tickets to this game.
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In contrast, Thomas Jefferson and Democrats opposed hard money, preferring debts be repaid in paper.
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Mr Kerry advocates cautious engagement with Iran, in contrast to the Bush administration's hard line.
For contrast and clarity, it's hard for Gutenberg to compete.
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By contrast, the Australians and Americans adopt a hard line.
The deflating follow-ups, by contrast, languished in more obscure publications, which hard-pressed hacks and quacks alike are less likely to read.
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The serenity of the temples and gardens of Hiraizumi stands in poignant contrast with the deep wounds of a region hit hard by the earthquake of 11 March 2011.
But if the style of play at both clubs contrast sharply, they are united in the belief that hard work is the lynchpin of their success.
When the Zip drive first hit the market, PC hard drives that held about one to four gigabytes--in contrast to the current standards of 40 to 80 gigabytes--were fairly common.
By contrast, in Germany 48 percent said starting a company was hard, but 44 percent said it was not.
If you were looking for a contrast to St A's, you'd be hard pushed to find a club further down the opposite spectrum than glitzy, nouveau Wentworth in Virginia Water in southern England.
Contrast that with the experience of Seagate, a Californian manufacturer of hard drives for computers.
Train production, by contrast, has until recently been largely national, which made it hard for manufacturers to achieve scale or make widely marketable goods.
Yes, there are examples of grotesque IRS abuse, but even the most angelic group of bureaucrats would have a hard time overseeing 70, 000-plus pages of laws and regulations (by contrast, the Hong Kong flat tax, which has been in place for more than 60 years, requires less than 200 pages).
In contrast, Oddworld's president, Lorne Lanning, 33, is a die-hard gamer.
In contrast, many conservatives seem to have macroeconomic policy views that seem like common sense but are hard to square with empirical reality or assemble into a coherent economic model.
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By contrast, the Consul General in Stuttgart, Samuel Honaker, made the visa process "unnecessarily hard, " at least according to letters from Carl Laemmle, the founder of Universal Pictures and an ardent rescuer, to U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull.
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Mr Rubio, by contrast, embodies the future the party sees for itself, as the champion of the sort of hard work and self-reliance that so many immigrants epitomise.
The attitude represents a contrast to what typically has happened in other coastal U.S. areas that have been hit hard by big storms, such as the Gulf Coast and rural communities along the Mississippi shoreline.
Maybe she's a shade too attractive -- it's hard to take your eyes off her hair, so luscious it practically demands its own trailer -- but the contrast with flinty, brittle old Gus is effective, and Adams shows some grit too, easily bossing Justin Timberlake (game as the movie's token love interest).
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