At its best it offers work capable of being compared with the items being sent up.
A major reason they looked so good was that they were being compared with the deep declines of February 2009.
This team are fed up with being compared with the successful teams of the past; all they want is to show what they are capable of.
Now that he has won three Tours de France, Lance Armstrong is inevitably being compared with the American who did it first, Greg LeMond -- and being compared unfavorably.
He warned about "the ferocious appropriation of high culture by commercial culture," and he complained about being compared with the Pop artists — he called the association "dismaying".
The Shanghai meeting is already being compared with the G20 meeting in April 2009 when officials agreed on coordinated stimulus to prevent a worldwide depression during the global financial crisis.
Kenyatta's jet-setting ways are being compared with the cost-cutting announced by the newly elected president of neighbouring Tanzania, John Magufuli, who since taking office last month has restricted official travel and banned perks like government-printed Christmas cards.
At the risk of being compared with the Austrian emperor who is supposed to have complained that a Mozart opera had "too many notes," I have to say that there's way too much choreography in "Hot 'n Cole".
There have been no bold predictions from anyone in the industry about the next three months, especially since this season is being compared with the record 57.3 million skier and snowboarder visits of last season.
And he notes that the encouraging economic data this year hide the fact that the growth rates are being compared with the period last year, when the economy was paralyzed and near collapse.
For example, Asif was very clear that we did everything we could to avoid the film being compared with the film The 27 Club, which we all agreed was insensitive and not something we wanted to propagate.
