Sentence examples for are perhaps comparable to from inspiring English sources

Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward famine of the early nineteen-sixties and the famine imposed upon Ukraine by Joseph Stalin during the thirties are perhaps comparable to the one that unfolded in North Korea after 1995; those earlier cases at least suggest the degree of political madness and suppression required to foster such a catastrophe.

Lambers and co-authors summarized the uniqueness of seagrasses as follows: "Aquatic angiosperms are perhaps comparable to whales: They returned to the water, preserving some features of terrestrial organisms" [ 1].

Lady in the Lake, with its self-imposed technical gimmick, is perhaps comparable to Hitchcock's Rope – but I don't think Rope had anything quite as ingenious as that moment.

That point is perhaps comparable to the "final frontier" from the prologue of Star Trek.

The startup is perhaps comparable to the likes of Zenefits and Gusto in the U.S. — it aims to drag Japanese HR departments into today's digital era.

Nishida's inverse correlation is perhaps comparable to some theological notions of non-reciprocal dependence, where for example it is said that God is my being yet I am not God's being.

"It will be perhaps comparable to the Icelandic volcano eruption [in 2010], or something similar, where there will be severe disruption to our way of life for a while, but it will be something we believe we can deal with," Prof Paul Cannon, the report chairman, told BBC News.

In some ways, the situation is perhaps comparable to a person who has been chain-smoking for 50 years, and is diagnosed with stage-four terminal cancer who asks how doctors can help them.

But Mormons support Mr. Romney in overwhelming numbers — far more than evangelical voters support Mr. Santorum, for instance — to a degree that is perhaps comparable only to African-American voters and their support for Democratic candidates.

In Essay on Negation, Paolo Virno argues that the importance of the not is perhaps comparable only to that of money that is, the universality of exchange.

More troublingly, Wilson then links this sexual license to the period's creativity: "The Berlin of the Weimar Republic, or the New York of Andy Warhol's generation, was perhaps comparable in this respect to Elizabethan London".