By comparison, the Situation's eponymous debut/swan-song club jam is just a long, dark T-shirt-time of the soul: a floor-clearing house beat, the Sitch yammering in a voice phlegmy with pitch-correction, and noted collaborators Fatman Scoop, DJ Class and the Disco Fries almost audibly checking their watches and wondering what to order for dinner.
In comparison, the situation of the non-borrowers in the control group remains unchanged.
In comparison, the situation is much more challenging if tuberculosis is suspected.
Comparisons to the situation of Americans now involved in long tours in a conflict far from home are all the more potent and touching for their subtlety.
He handed over copies of a four-volume collection of his speeches, due to be published later this year, and pointedly invited readers to "make comparisons with the situation today".
Now the popular resentment has reached proportions that are drawing comparisons to the situation 180 years ago, when the Great Reform Act of 1832 was speeded through Parliament by riots in several cities.
Comparisons to the situation with Iran are likely to unnerve the White House, which has been embroiled in a series of bruising battles with hawks in Congress, who have spent months trying to push through sanctions legislation that further squeeze Tehran, a move the Obama administration believes would scupper nuclear negotiations.
In this context, the most significant results from the field surveys are presented by making comparisons between the situation in 2002 and 2010.
There is no comparison between the situation today and the situation nine months ago, when the euro was under existential threat.
