No doubt I am sentimentalising the orderliness of written letters by comparison with emails.
Its bonus pool is small by comparison with sums recently announced by some foreign rivals.
Humans, being humans, tend to judge things by comparison with recent experience, not by absolute standards.
This is a modest outlay by comparison with the past cost of servicing a loan.
By comparison with the rest of America, which continues to languish in the doldrums, Texas is thriving.
The latest earnings increase was helped by comparison with a period that included a big charge a year ago.
By comparison with the Home Office, he was a practitioner of pinpoint navigation.
But all these tangles seem modest by comparison with the prime minister's own.
By comparison with a Japanese-style malaise, even a traditionally painful, but finite, recession would seem like a lucky escape.
By comparison with the first 18 months, its legislative plans are indeed prosaic.
The budget deficit, projected to fall from 9.3% of GDP in 2009 to 4.6% in 2011, pales by comparison with Ireland's.
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You referred to a study that showed British Muslims identify more with their religion than their nationality by comparison with French Muslims.
But Mr Poterba says even this suggests an increase in consumption that is small by comparison with the increase in household stockmarket wealth.
Ministers are trying to make planning rules more nuclear-friendly, and hope that tighter carbon-emission limits will help nuclear energy shine by comparison with fossil-fuel plants.
By comparison with Athens, the BM's display, which amounts to half the remaining frieze, and which was improved in 1998, now looks a little tired.
By comparison with the crypts, staircases and pillared halls of Knossos, the other half-dozen Minoan palaces that have been excavated around Crete are dull ground-plans in stone.
The town is certainly down at heel by comparison with the nearby capital, though it has a mildly exotic flavour in other respects, including five tattoo parlours on the main street.
However, this year the BBC will measure 2013 change in seats by comparison with the last election, 2009, when most of these councils were elected (thus ignoring subsequent by-election changes and councillor defections).
In any case, by comparison with most other parts of the world, and with any other era of human history, the United States and western Europe are converging in their attitudes to danger.
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The GDP figures were also enhanced by comparison with the previous three months, because the second quarter had an extra public holiday as part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations in June, as well as unusually bad weather, which reduced growth.
Such challenges are likely to pale, however, by comparison with the edicts handed down by multilateral tribunals whose deciding votes are, in every instance, selected by international bureaucrats (in the case of one arbitral panel, by the UN Secretary General himself).
Some of the performance figures are subdued by comparison with the start of last year as Aggreko is not benefiting from the one-off gains from the Vancouver Winter Olympics, the build-up to the FIFA World Cup in South Africa and the Asian Games.
Her strategy was to drown out the campaign of Jerry Brown, a former governor and current attorney-general but a pauper by comparison, with constant and ubiquitous attack ads, forcing him either to spend his money early or to leave her attacks unanswered.
In a side-by-side comparison with the RT, everything looked a little sharper, a little less pixelated.
Not that we were able to do a side-by-side comparison with the old model, but it certainly felt easier typing on the KIRAbook than on the Z835.
The white balance thing is still apparent, for instance, though you'd have to be doing a side-by-side comparison with another laptop to really appreciate the difference (and even then, it really is quite minor).
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By way of comparison with the GMAC statistics mentioned above, MBA graduates are faring much better than many other sectors of the job market when it comes to finding work in a difficult economy.
In a side-by-side comparison with the Galaxy Nexus, it looks like the phone's display is incrementally larger, although we're unable to tell the precise size, nor whether we'll be treated to Super AMOLED Plus or some Pentile substitute.
And that is by way of comparison with a 2011 that already was the second year of a three-year period during which Ford has essentially ignored the Lincoln product line-up in favor of turning out one new Ford after another.
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Nadal, by comparison, drew level with Federer on 16 Masters titles, behind only the 18 won by American Andre Agassi.
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