Sentence examples for a ludicrous comparison from inspiring English sources

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It's a ludicrous comparison, granted.

6.33pm BST He says Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, made a "ludicrous comparison" between London and Rio.

This is a ludicrous comparison, but a sad measure of the gulf between the two sides fighting for the soul of this country.

The judicial expert Ibrahim Darwish has drawn a ludicrous comparison between Morsi's decree on Parliament and Egypt's defeat to Israel in 1967.

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Nick Clegg's ludicrous comparison between the bankrupt Greek economy and our own also seemed to pass without question.

We should not forget that it was first used by a former Likud prime minister, Menachem Begin, who was finally told by outraged survivors not to demean the memory of the Holocaust by citing it to justify his every action, including the ludicrous comparison of Arafat in besieged Beirut to Hitler in his bunker.

The corollary of Osborne's mistaken decision to focus on the deficit – all those ludicrous comparisons of our situation with that of Greece – and to declare a second age of austerity was the impact this had on confidence and "animal spirits".

Those are ludicrous comparisons, of course; but at his best, Hayne merits them.

The TV commentators throughout the Copa have thrown out all manner of ludicrous comparisons to make sense of how much we can expect of these players: Brad Friedel compared John Brooks to Eddie Pope at one point, while Bobby Wood drew comparisons to Brian McBride.

The musical, with a book by David Thompson, lampoons much of this history as a ludicrous horror show, drawing an implicit comparison between the stereotypes of minstrelsy and the racist assumptions that influenced the treatment of the Scottsboro defendants in the news media and the courts.

"It's a ludicrous allegation.

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