Sentence examples for outright compared from inspiring English sources

Candidates are jostling to be elected to more than 1,800 council seats across the capital, where the Conservatives are currently the biggest political group and control 14 of the 32 boroughs outright – compared with eight held by Labour.

It is neither fair nor right to outright compare.

Mirko Slomka is very much available but looks an uninspiring if not outright dull successor compared to the eccentric tactical mastermind that was Favre.

PR responses to documentation have ranged from outright denial (Dairy Herd Magazine compared investigations to "hate crimes" against farmers) to indignant justification (a headline in the Vancouver Sun summed it up: "Body slamming piglets to death humane, pork experts say").

The White House refused to back up Comey on Monday, then Lindsey Graham, the hawkish Republican presidential candidate, on Wednesday compared Roof outright to "Mid-East hate".

"We, the vanguard of the Ukrainian revolution, should not be compared to outright gangsters".

But that reasoning ― which sounds measured compared to outright denial of observable phenomena ― has been employed for years to undermine climate science, and does not represent an evolution on the issue.

While useful for protecting a few special areas of conservation interest, the upfront costs of acquiring land outright can be high when compared to other conservation approaches.

Just 19% of respondents in the region expressed support for the proposals compared with 58% who outright opposed.

Even before last week's Supreme Court decision, the importance of gene-related trade secrets, compared with that of outright patents, was clear.

Survey data suggests that outright scientific misconduct is relatively rare compared to more subtle forms of bias, although it is probably higher than commonly assumed, particularly in medical/clinical research [69].