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Comparison in sentence

957 examples of Comparison in a sentence

This is an important comparison to make.
In Africa, premature deaths from unsafe sanitation or childhood malnutrition pale in comparison to deaths due to air pollution, and it comes at a huge economic cost: over 400 billion US dollars as of 2013, according to a study by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
[In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty] Incidentally, I'm not usually very proud of being British, but you can't help making the comparison.
Of course, it's going to empower whoever is most skilled at using the technology and best understands the Internet in comparison with whoever their adversary is.
But by comparison, we can learn.
But the more natural comparison is actually between India and Pakistan.
By that comparison, democracy looks very, very good in terms of economic growth.
Now here's an interesting comparison.
So firstly, trials against placebo: everybody thinks a trial should be a comparison of your new drug against placebo.
Now actually, this is quite crude in comparison to our regular inner ear.
This is the comparison of the toughness of the dragline spilk spun by 21 species of spiders.
For comparison, the diameter of a human hair is around 50 microns.
Because I just invite you to think about, by comparison, think about pretty much anything else in the universe, maybe apart from the very most fundamental forces or powers.
Let's look at a basic comparison.
Apparently, the bitter realization that maybe it could happen to us, but it obviously hasn't and it probably never will, makes our lives seem unbearably grim in comparison.
And then it segues into the real song for comparison.
You need 20 interests, and then one of them, one of them might grab you, one of them might engage you more than anything else, and then you may have found your greatest love, in comparison to all the other things that interest you, and that's what passion is.
Immediately we have a comparison.
In rural Uganda, Paul Bolton and his colleagues, using villagers, demonstrated that they could deliver interpersonal psychotherapy for depression and, using a randomized control design, showed that 90 percent of the people receiving this intervention recovered as compared to roughly 40 percent in the comparison villages.
Roughly 75 percent of mothers recovered as compared to about 45 percent in the comparison villages.
And in my own trial in Goa, in India, we again showed that lay counselors drawn from local communities could be trained to deliver psychosocial interventions for depression, anxiety, leading to 70 percent recovery rates as compared to 50 percent in the comparison primary health centers.
In fact, one of the most important lessons from this comparison is that you don't have to compromise equity to achieve excellence.
I'd like to talk to you today about a whole new way to think about sexual activity and sexuality education, by comparison.
You may have noticed in the baseball and pizza comparison, under the baseball, it's all commands.
And if I make a comparison with oil, there’s an oil crisis, we talk about it, we talk about global warming, yet we never mention the phosphorus crisis.
What are our unique assets in comparison to no other place?
Many people have harmed me in my life, and I remember them all, but the memories grow pale and faint in comparison with the people who've helped me.
Maybe it's better to imagine it as a comparison.
Compared to a rat, we might seem special, yes, but that's not a fair comparison to make, given that we know that we are not rodents.
We are primates, so the correct comparison is to other primates.
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