Sentence examples for challenging comparisons from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless against some challenging comparisons we would view this as a positive retail performance, following the resilient third quarter in Retail.

"Avatar" became the highest-grossing film in history (not adjusted for inflation), but with that title came one downside for the News Corporation: "challenging comparisons," as Mr. Murdoch put it in a statement, between this year and last year's earnings.

"Despite challenging comparisons to third quarter 2012 — which benefited from Summer Olympic advertising, record political spending and the significant ramp-up of our content subscription model — we performed well," Gracia C. Martore, president and chief executive, said in a statement about the company's broadcast and publishing businesses.

"What matters more is the reaction to the guidance from the industrials and materials companies, which have wider exposure to the elements that have the market on edge about the earnings growth outlook: currency pressures, tariffs, foreign slowdowns, higher costs, and challenging comparisons," Briefing.com noted recently.

It's a challenging comparison, but not surprising coming from Mr. Stone, who is trying to upend beliefs and expectations with his documentary "Pandora's Promise".

Here, we consider again the 2D localization error for an easier, although more challenging, comparison with results presented in Section 4.2.

This potentially challenging comparison did not arise in the study discussions, although participants did comment on how many of their suggestions would not cost anything to develop, which reflects an awareness of the limited resources of the NHS.

The use of the radio button format allows a reduction in the percentage of respondents who choose the "Don't know" option and makes responding to questions less challenging in comparison with slider and text box interfaces.

In the WINNER channel models, parameter estimation is much more challenging in comparison to the two-path channel models since a much larger number of propagation paths I>2 is considered.

However, this is a non-trivial task for algorithms because there could be missing tissues as well as distortions during sectioning, making stitching neuronal segments across multiple sections much more challenging in comparison with stitching overlapping tiles within single sections [6, 7] (Fig. 1c).

Our study suggests incentivizing rural service for the nursing and Ayurvedic cadres is less challenging in comparison to the allopathic cadre.