Sentence examples for comparable to the first from inspiring English sources

She said the film's 1972 premiere "should become a landmark" comparable to the first performance of Stravinsky's Rite Of Spring.

But this is just the early, land-rush phase of the Internet of Things, comparable to the first Internet land rush, in the late nineties.

I felt corporate shame at the return of Nick Griffin to represent this country in the European Parliament, comparable to the first such shame I ever felt at the time of Suez and again when we entered Iraq.

Aid organisations nonetheless remain alert: fading rains could lead to renewed fighting, causing a surge comparable to the first few months of the crisis, when thousands a day were arriving.

Hence the pseudo-military terminology applied to most activity, with reference to the "frontline", as if officers spent all their working hours in an environment comparable to the first world war trenches.

An asteroid that entered the Earth's atmosphere last June and exploded with a burst of energy comparable to the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima could have set off a nuclear war between Pakistan and India.

These are not comparable to the second world war, he says, but they are factors in society's ills.

Strasburg is almost certainly comparable to the second tier of last year's free-agent starters, which included A. J. Burnett, Derek Lowe and Ryan Dempster, all of whom received contracts worth around $15 million a year.

Vladimir V. Putin, the former president and now prime minister, transformed this anger into a doctrine, saying in 2007 that Russia faced an enemy comparable to the Third Reich, with "the same contempt for human life and the same claims of exceptionality and diktat in the world".

The dispute comes at a politically difficult time for China, with the approach of National Day on Oct. 1, the anniversary of the creation of the People's Republic of China in 1949 after more than a half-century of Japanese incursions into the Asian mainland — a holiday comparable to the Fourth of July in the United States.

The preliminary screening results indicated that most of the compounds demonstrated moderate to very good antibacterial and antifungal activities, comparable to the first-line drugs.