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Simple sentences
In comparison with Tokyo, London is small.
In the third dimension you see yourself as a separate entity in comparison to other people and the universe.
The buildings are small in comparison with the skyscrapers in New York.
In comparison with this, that is far better.
The comparison between the two was to his disadvantage.
The earth is small in comparison with the sun.
Country life is very peaceful in comparison with city life.
My car looks shabby in comparison with his new one.
In comparison to which she's been in a really good mood recently.
In comparison to strawberries, pineapple also tastes good out of a tin.
Godwin's law teaches us that any infinite discussion about an arbitrary subject converges to a Nazi comparison.
Mr. Bernardo is a nice colleague, in comparison to Mr. Citrono.
I saw the stars; they captivate the eye, and their beauty is beyond comparison.
The buildings are small in comparison to the skyscrapers in New York.
There is no comparison.
The sales in Japan are small in comparison with those in Europe.
The GDP of China still pales in comparison with that of the US.
A comparison proves nothing.
I don't like this comparison.
Comparison is the mother of violence.
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I'm thinking of a comparison.
Apart from that, there's hardly any comparison between you.
No comparison with our old bungalow.
She has such ideals and such a viewpoint on things that she's so far above the girls you meet today, there's no comparison.
They're busy, but no comparison with this.
In comparison, how do you like the jungle?
There is no comparison.
Then there's no comparison.
The lipstick could then be identified by comparison with all known brands in the Bureau's files.
As a mass killer, I am an amateur by comparison.
But even the most minute of them have an instinct and talent for industry social organization and savagery that makes man look feeble by comparison.
What a vulgar comparison.
Third, do you happen to know what the aviation rank of the United States is. in comparison with other nations?
I suggest you consider it in comparison..to one of our functionally-designed human doorways.
What I have done is nothing in comparison with what I shall do.
You must admit that there is no comparison between Blake Randolph and your penniless John Breen.
This comparison proves that you made a very good deal, even if it were to end.
Your suicide would pale in comparison to that.
But that's not a fair comparison.
Comparison has been made between the measurements of the Venus de Milo and what is considered ideal in the female form today.
Well, in comparison to some of the more fashionable parts of town. it is, of course.
After all, he thought, what would the loss of 30 dollars mean in comparison to the vast sum of money ultimately at stake?
Particularly in comparison with other men's careers.
What is my reputation in comparison to that?
I don't like your comparison of the flag of France to a bullfighter's cape.
Ah, there is no comparison.
No comparison. but it's a house I'll hang onto.
Not a bad comparison.
And in comparison, the price.
If you are making a comparison, the Oakridge pictures are here on top.
In the transporter room, you said something about us seeming like insects by comparison, squashing us if we got in your way.
News and current affairs
In comparison to the cost of military intervention and peacekeeping, the financial costs here are ridiculously low.
How fair is that comparison?
In any meaningful international comparison, China's per capita stock of physical capital is still 8-10 times lower than in advanced countries like the United States and Japan.
Italy and Greece enjoyed huge declines in the cost of servicing their public debt in comparison to pre-EMU days.
The recent and ongoing world financial crisis pales in comparison with these events.
In one recent paper, a comparison of ex-users who used for 9 years and abstained from 3 months to 6 years, were compared with long-term users of 10 years, and short-term users of 3 years.
Even in comparison with the US, China is a capitalist paradise - so long as you steer clear of the central government.
It is important to note, however, that these costs pale in comparison with the far greater costs of reducing CO2 emissions without CCS.
A comparison of the US and Sweden is therefore revealing.
That certainly looks good in comparison to the near-stagnation of recent years.
When economic growth falters and people no longer see improvement over their past experience, the first comparison becomes more important - and comes to be shared by millions of people.
But when the downturn affects distinct groups differently, especially when members of some groups are (rightly or wrongly) perceived as doing better than the others, the second comparison gains significance as well.
Friedman is right that social comparison drives human anxieties, if not conflict, but this is equally true when economies are growing.
This, of course, will be painful for banks, but their pain will be nothing in comparison to the suffering they have inflicted on people throughout the rest of the global economy.
Any undercounting of output pales in comparison with the IT-assisted undercounting of working hours.
But this comparison has limits.
Whatever problems the UK faces now pale in comparison to those that would emerge if it were to withdraw from the EU.
They pale in comparison to the risks taken by dissidents in closed societies.
One reason that we can afford to increase the amount of aid we give is that the amount we are giving now is insignificant in comparison to what we spend on other things.
By comparison with the late 1990's, however, the space for political discourse has undeniably narrowed, crushing expectations that the country would continue on a liberalizing course.
But it also creates safety valves, alternative forums, bases of comparison, sources of new ideas, and potential arenas for innovation. Regulatory competition is possible.
But a comparison with what happened outside the affected area is instructive.
But the comparison is misleading, because 2007 was the peak of a credit bubble that led to a lot of wasteful investment.
In comparison with Thailand, Indonesia had an adequate provision of prudential rules and regulations.
The costs of reducing emissions pale in comparison to the possible risks the world faces.
A second kind of comparison focused on so-called paralogous proteins, which are descended from a common ancestor within the same creature as a result of gene duplications.