Sentence examples for comparability from inspiring English sources

I worded them as similarly as possible to the Post survey for maximum comparability, although to be clear: We are comparing fictional people/robots/animals/wizards with real ones here, so let's try not to take any of this too seriously.

The problem involved comparability: DVD sales for "Brave" and "Cinderella" were slight compared with disc releases in the same period a year earlier for "Cars 2" and "The Lion King".

The sheer breadth of Pisa has also raised questions about the comparability of results within it.

The system is said to provide more detail about whether a candidate came at the low or high end of a degree classification and offer greater international comparability of degree results.

That is in part thanks to the requirement of "comparability" written into the Paris Club agreement, meaning in essence that a debtor nation should not give better terms to other creditors.

Adding this sort of information to product labels can encourage buyers to minimise the use-phase emissions but only if they actually read the label and act on its advice.Given such wide variations, so-called "product category" rules are needed to ensure comparability between carbon labels on similar products.

The world's biggest economy is also much less bothered about the international comparability of its numbers than smaller European countries.

But this, claims David Schmid of PricewaterhouseCoopers, another accountancy firm, is not a problem: "Transparency is the greater goal in accounting, not comparability".

So the aim is to create greater comparability in the GDP figures of member states, in part because this is the basis on which EU funds are distributed.

As the incoming chairman of the 7-person Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), he will lead rulemaking for America's beancounters.Achieving comparability has also been the motivation for a long project of convergence between FASB's and IASB's standards.

But it is unclear how the regulators will gauge the accuracy of the banks' ratings, or establish comparability between one bank's method and another's, or what happens if the ratings turn out to be wrong.Despite all the delays so far, the chances are that something like Basel 2 as it now stands will be implemented in due course though if it is, its application will be far from comprehensive.