Sentence examples for compared with like from inspiring English sources

Critics claim that like is not being compared with like, or that statistics have been cherry-picked to support a readymade agenda.

But suggesting that like should only be compared with like in one category makes the very idea of the Baillie Gifford – a prize open to all nonfiction across politics, science, history, sport and the arts – seem a comically impossible project, and in any case, part of its appeal is the sheer variety the shortlist throws up.

The Nopo decomposition results we have just seen are based on the common support assumption which ensures that 'like is compared with like', and ignoring this may lead to misleading results since children are compared though they are not comparable.

They also looked at pay and company performance in three-year periods over a relatively long time span, from 1994-2013, and compared what are known as firms' "abnormal" performance, meaning a company's revenues and profits as compared with like companies in their fields.

It allows patients to be compared with "like" patients with similar comorbidities.

Like was in no way compared with like.

The cost of grocery items is compared with like-for-like products at Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Aldi and Lidl.

Fit quality is high, but the material level pales compared with like-priced Hondas, such as the Accord.

Respiratory course and outcomes in infants treated with MIST have been compared with like-gestation historical controls achieving the same CPAP and FiO2 thresholds (data from the RHH-RWH preterm CPAP cohort).

Pre-tax profits hit £87m, compared with a like-for-like figure of £52m in 2014.

This band was eightfold increased in extracts from basal-like tumors compared with luminal-like tumors.