By contrast, single-family home building, which makes up nearly two-thirds of the market, fell 4.8 percent to an annual rate of 619, 000.

NPR: US Housing Starts Surpass 1 Million In March

But their technology was based on the luminescent abilities of small organic molecules--single molecules--in contrast to the large ones--chains of molecules--Friend utilized.

FORBES: Innovators

The XFL, by contrast, was a single entity under the leadership of Vince McMahon , the WWFE's chairman.

FORBES: Top Of The News: XFL Exterminated

By contrast, few makers of single-purpose devices seem to understand that less is more.

WSJ: Are Multipurpose Devices Better Than Products That Perform One Function?

But, then, that is the nature of a referendum in which a single proposition is being tested, by contrast with an election which subjects competing manifesto packages to scrutiny.

BBC: The currency of debate at First Minister's Questions

In wartime, by contrast, the company typically has a single bullet in the chamber and must, at all costs, hit the target.

FORBES: Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO

By contrast, the Wine Spectator didn't award a single 100-point score in 2012.

WSJ: Wine Ratings: Remaking the Grade | On Wine by Lettie Teague

By contrast, GPU processors are typically slower at carrying out each single calculation, but benefit from the ability to carry out several simultaneously.

BBC: Imagination challenges ARM with Mips takeover

In contrast, both Japan and the European countries that are adopting a single currency next year are running significant current-account surpluses.

ECONOMIST: The dollar

By providing this and other information pertaining to all NASD member firms in a single place, available for simultaneous viewing, investors are able to compare and contrast firms, as well as garner information about the industry generally.

FORBES: Investigating Brokerages (May 1, 2002 )