Sentence examples for poor by comparison from inspiring English sources

And real life is decidedly poor by comparison.

To him, my overenthusiastic rants must make his lackadaisical reading habits look unbearably poor by comparison.

Djokovic admitted he was feeling tired in the second half of his match against Gulbis, the 25-year-old Latvian, which was poor by comparison.

Chapman said lean red meat was a source of iron, zinc, vitamin B12 and protein, but heavily processed meat was nutrient poor by comparison.

Our complaint is not that we are poor by comparison with people in other countries, but that we are poor by comparison with the white people in our own country, and that we are prevented by legislation from altering this imbalance.

In 2008, the Healthcare Commission found maternity provision in the capital was poor by comparison with the rest of the country.

Our amateur versions of life seem to us all the poorer by comparison.

If you couldn't have written it, the logic seems to follow, then the whole world you live in must be poorer by comparison.

This means that anyone relying entirely on the basic pension in retirement will be far poorer by comparison with most of the population than are today's pensioners.

England's salary cap of £4 million makes them look the poor cousins by comparison with the French figures, even though the French are reducing their own figures.

Given the associations between poverty, teens and near-teens and riotous disturbances, this seems unlikely to reduce the likelihood of more riots or, more worryingly, the sort of routine criminality that festers and flourishes when sticking to society's rules seems to offer poor rewards by comparison - the stuff the riots made so shockingly visible.