Sentence examples for were being compared from inspiring English sources

During the hearing, Sanchez pointed to how N.F.L. players were being compared to college players.

Even as a toddler, Rosemary knew their developmental milestones were being compared — ad infinitum, with footnotes.

A major reason they looked so good was that they were being compared with the deep declines of February 2009.

Comet, which has recently embarked on a three-year turnaround plan, revamping shops and products, said its second-quarter figures were weaker because they were being compared with a very strong quarter the previous year.

And they were just braying poshos, part of an aristocratic takeover of British music ("Let's be honest, we don't have anything in common with those bands we were being compared to").

Wal-Mart executives also pointed out that its American same-store sales results, while disappointing, were being compared with its impressive 2.4 percent sales increase a year ago.

Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani is being compared to him now regularly.

Jose Mourinho is being compared to Brian Clough OBE (Old Big 'Ead).

Her style is being compared to Raymond Radiguet's.

This attitude is logically indefensible insofar as Mormonism is being compared with other world religions.

When he was being compared to other big-name artists, he never took it very seriously.