The phrase "seek to compare" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used when someone is trying to find similarities or differences between two or more things. Example: In this study, we seek to compare the effects of different types of exercise on cardiovascular health.
The church of course would never seek to compare its own sins with those of others, so this point is never made.
It links into a society in which people with personal problems, often of their own making, seek to compare their lot with the prisoners of death/slave camps.
That the court still holds to the broad principle that the unmarried cannot seek to compare themselves with the married can be seen in two recent decisions on claims brought against the United Kingdom by bereaved gay men.
Ms. Rudolph did not say much about the work of her partner, Mr. Anderson, who has been busy this summer with a new film, "The Master," or seek to compare his labors to hers.
I'm sure Starling does not seek to compare his own talent to that of Wright, but it's also undeniably the case that while The Alchemist is all about awe – the visitor's at Wright's skill and delicacy, the alchemist's at the astonishing light in his round-bottomed flask – his canoe is still only a canoe, whether it was created of disputed waters or not.
"What sense does it make for a group from one culture — be it Swedish, American, Nigerian or Japanese — to seek to compare a Bolivian poet with a Korean novelist, an American singer-songwriter with a Russian playwright, and so on?" It doesn't.
The study examined 38,122 deals, seeking to compare the M&A cycles of the late 1980s and the late 1990s to today.
At each destination, the visitors sought to compare what they were seeing with what they knew from home.
I am not seeking to compare my son's experience with your own, or anyone else's.
We sought to compare gradings of images from both systems.
As such, this study seeks to compare corrected CFT and CBF with invasive measures of CO.
