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.
Finances are (relatively) sound and the budget is shiningly transparent at least by comparison with murky Moscow.
By comparison with the rest of America, which continues to languish in the doldrums, Texas is thriving.
By comparison with the regimes and the Islamist movements, the secular opposition parties are at a particular disadvantage.
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.
That was far worse than anything witnessed in central Europe before the war, though it still pales by comparison with the horrors of the Nazi era.
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.
It takes to a new level the post-presidential activism pioneered by Jimmy Carter though the Carter brand occupies a specialist niche by comparison with the Clinton brand's mass-market appeal.
Surprisingly, by comparison with NATO, which wages its war against terror with quite a disproportionate use of force, Israel is judged with a radically different set of standards.
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).
We are convinced, however, that those costs are both the inevitable price of freedom and will be shown to pale by comparison with those that would have been associated with continued U.S. inaction.
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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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By comparison with innocent casualties from drones, the Pakistani Taliban and their allies have killed 14, 427 civilians and 4, 670 soldiers and police in Pakistan since 2003, according to figures kept by the South Asia Terrorism Portal.
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The provision for financial assistance to Turkey included in the war-funding request Mr Bush sent to Congress on March 24th was small beer by comparison with what Turkey would have got if it had co-operated fully.
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.
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