contraposition
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While perhaps a direct contraposition to point number one, it's worth remembering that Doc/Fest is a cross-platform, multimedia festival, as well as being a haven for the factually obsessed.
From The Guardian ● May 9, 2013
Paolo Rodari, who writes about the Vatican for the newspaper Il Foglio, said the episode depicted “a widening contraposition happening in the Vatican between Bertone and different clerics who do not like his politics.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2012
The picture from the Codex Mendoza of a native tlachtli, the form of which is represented by two taus in contraposition, is partly painted black.
From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Zelia Nuttall
Thus the reduction of Baroko to the First Figure by contraposition of the Middle is vindicated as a really useful process.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto
As lack of space forbids my making here a more extended comparison of the native symbols, I shall but point out how the tau, in juxtaposition and contraposition painted in two colors, produces fig.
From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Zelia Nuttall
