Sentence examples for courts comparison from inspiring English sources

As in the Harry Potter books (to which Mr. Fforde so eagerly courts comparison that an all-important croquet match here plays the role of Harry's Quidditch contests), the author has lots of early plot to recapitulate before a new book can get going.

But if you are going to court comparison with giants, you had better be prepared to stand tall.

The confrontations are done well, but the frisson of dread they offer has a comfortably period feel, and they inevitably court comparison with things written out of more urgent, first-hand experience.

One or two went as far as to draw a parallel with Lenin's move in 1918... Until recently, only a very vain Russian politican would court comparison with Lenin; now only a very foolish one would do so.

While he likens his treatment by the news media to that of their treatment of Ewing, he wants no part of any on-court comparisons.

Trump seems almost to be courting comparisons with Watergate, as when, last Friday, he tweeted the Nixonian threat that Comey "better hope that there are no 'tapes' of our conversations".

Wearing hiking boots, head-to-toe khaki tones and a slouch hat – a new acquisition – atop a thatch of hair, he dresses as if he is courting comparisons with Indiana Jones (a Google search reveals that the strategy has worked).

Kathryn Spence hews closest to the Picasso model, making sculpture out of scavenged materials that brazenly court the comparison to junk.

Often this has made the courts popular by comparison with the perceived lethargy, incompetence or malice of politicians.

In recent years, our military courts pale in comparison with standards of compliance with the laws of war set by the international criminal tribunals.

But it will be competing in a brutal marketplace that may make bankruptcy court seem, by comparison, like a refuge.