'fails to compare' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express that something is not as good or impressive as something else. For example, "His goal-scoring record this season fails to compare to his record last year."
Why?" This is merely lame, fails to compare like with like, appears unintentionally to be unsure why the gulf leak was "bad" and attempts an irony where none exists.
Even its stated premise, that the SDNY is the crown jewel of America's lower federal courts, is asserted rather than demonstrated: the author fails to compare its historical importance or quality of jurisprudence with those of any other district, and dedicates half a chapter to lampooning its least distinguished judges.
As England fans travel by train between World Cup cities in Germany, they can't fail to compare the comfort and efficiency of Deutsche Bahn, the German national train network, with what passes for a train service back home.
Those critics who failed to compare the era of industrialization with the one that immediately preceded it also failed to account for the social and economic progress that had touched the lives of ordinary people.
Prescott's theme was the conquest of Mexico and Peru; Motley (also a product of Göttingen and Berlin) recounted the successful rebellion of the Netherlands, which he did not fail to compare frequently to the American Revolution.
When other assistants took jobs elsewhere and then returned here, they all told Campbell that they never should have left, that other schools in other towns failed to compare.
However, they failed to compare the mortality rate between patients with and without TEA.
Intradermal skin tests that fail to compare findings in this manner contain an inherent methodologic flaw and are uninterpretable.
Verifinger failed to compare 20 query fingermarks to the database because of their very high image resolution; this was only the case for (Scanner, None) images.
One study showed that EPs who met minimum requirements for LBEs based on American College of Emergency Physicians guidelines demonstrated high inter-rater agreement in the assessment of DD using primarily TDI, but failed to compare EP to a cardiologist interpretation [15].
The potential systemic differences in performance of natural, exhaust and mechanical ventilation in dwellings is the object of relentless debate among scientists, industry and policy makers, although comparisons found in literature often fail to compare the different systems on an equal basis.
