What they did is completely unprecedented in American history (as a study by legal scholars -- who examined over 100 relevant comparable instances -- determined).
This Court can find no comparable instance in which Congress legislated an exemption through a parenthetical numerical cross-reference.
We can find no comparable instance in which Congress legislated an exemption through an inexplicit numerical cross-referenceespecially a cross-reference that might easily escape notice.
Since a strict Supreme Court ruling in 1976, there is only one comparable instance of a court issuing a gag order on a newspaper to ensure a fair trial.
Military legal experts said today that they could not recall a comparable instance when a branch of the service re-evaluated the punishments in determining whether subsequent awards and promotions were consistent with the reprimands.
In 1993, 1999 and more recently in 2001, The Italian Guidelines for the treatment of headache included the CIN among the drugs with the higher levels of recommendation (first choice drug in 1993 and 1999, group II level of recommendation in 2001, comparable for instance to metoprolole) [10, 11].
Furthermore, an analysis of the cytocompatibility of experimental compositions showed comparable (in some instances superior), compatibility when compared with the commercial product Neurolac®.
For instance, the document compared the $1.5 billion in equity capital that Kohlberg, Kravis investors are putting into the deal to the $1 billion in comparable permanent financing envisioned by the management group.
Are the books in comparable condition?
The new compounds possess anticonvulsant properties lower than those of prototype 5 but, in some instances, comparable to that of GYKI 52466, a well-known noncompetitive AMPA receptor antagonist.
In both instances, comparable numbers of strains were analyzed: 19 P. syringae genomes vs. 13 for X. campestris.
