The states have made a mockery of that provision, using weak tests, setting passing scores low or rewriting tests from year to year, making it impossible to compare progress — or its absence — over time.
I was also troubled by the fact that Enron was revising its financial statements every year, which made it impossible to compare the results of one year with another.
Simply using the companies' values would make it impossible to compare various executives' options grants.
This made it impossible to compare with the other clubs and ruined the arrangements for Thursday.
"The piecemeal changes we've had in the last few years make it impossible to compare grades from one year to the next".
The report also fails to break down the number of police shootings by city, unlike other Justice Department reports on crime, making it impossible to compare police performance.
This expansion of criteria makes it impossible to compare apples to apples when looking at data on long-term trends, because what counts as "autism" is simply quite different today.
Italian children sit exams after five years of secondary schooling, but these are not the same across the country, making it impossible to compare the results of a student in Bari with one in Bologna.
These losses make it impossible to compare Twitter's IPO with others using the traditional yardstick of a price-earnings ratio.Instead, analysts often look at another measure: the ratio of a firm's proposed market capitalisation at IPO to the past 12 months' sales.
make it impossible to compare regional differences.
Your technology may be one of a kind, making it impossible to compare.
