Whatever happens, it remains true that venture firms vet prospective investments with a rigor that makes Ivy League admissions pale by comparison.
Neither Dennis Kloske nor Sam Gejdenson objected to this action, even though its strategic consequences are likely to make those precipitated by ill-advised sales to Saddam Hussein pale by comparison.
Can there be any doubt that, under such circumstances, the costs he will be able to inflict in a future crisis will make those we must face today pale by comparison?
These numbers pale by comparison to U.S. bank contributions.
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No matter how much you may accomplish in the country, examples abound of companies like BYD and Geely that seemingly come out of nowhere to become very big, very fast, and which make any achievement pale by comparison.
It contains sweeping environmental obligations that make those entailed in the Kyoto accords pale by comparison - especially insofar as the Law of the Sea Tribunal has established that it believes its jurisdiction extends to activities on land and in the air if they might affect the world's oceans.
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When Mike Bloomberg was elected last November to follow him, many thought that this billionaire and political virgin would be a pale flop by comparison, quite unable to fill the void that Mr Giuliani had left.
Those billions pumped into the system by Congress pale in comparison to the stuff that Kim and her sister will be buying over the next twelve months.
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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).
Yet, even their maximalist positions generally pale in comparison with the treatment authorized by the Mexican constitution.
Otherwise, that 13% tax rate will pale in comparison with the "taxes" levied by mobsters.
The environmental costs levied on China's 400 million urban residents pale in comparison, however, to those faced by the country's more than 800 million farmers and other rural residents.
Many of them pale in comparison with his later works, yet Koontz was buoyed by fan letters, and he convinced himself that his rise from journeyman to bestselling author was imminent.
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