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For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey.
The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.
There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.
I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
That's the thing about TV: it gives you so much time to tell your story; it's comparable to comics.
We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.
I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.
Liverpool is off the side of the known universe, and it always was. New York is the only other place comparable.
If you think back to the great French directors it's difficult to think of British film-makers who are comparable.
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
None of my films are comparable to anybody else's. So many years after I made them, nobody's been able to copy them.
I think the Internet is comparable to the Homestead Act: Here's a parcel of land. Sign up, cultivate it, it's yours.
There's nothing comparable to as 'in shape' as a professional dancer. You'd have to train eight hours a day for that.
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.
A femtosecond is comparable to one second in 32 million years. It is like watching a 32-million-year movie to see one second.
A movie moment in a theatre would never be comparable to the same movie moment elsewhere no matter how cheap the big TV becomes.
The position of vice president does not exist in France; neither does a role comparable that of the first lady of the United States.
There's very little that's comparable to seeing the spark in a student's face when she gets something that she's been struggling with.
Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.
Scoring and fishing are comparable. In both cases, you must have patience and wait for the right moment to strike power with the utmost coolness.
The strength of the playing ability is much more important. Only if the strength of the opponent's playing ability is comparable, does the game develop.
Little do we find any Phoenician architecture or plastic art at all comparable even to those of Italy, to say nothing of the lands where art was native.
I think in the United States we have a different standard for what equality means for women that isn't really that comparable to that in the Middle East.
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.
Angelina wanted to make sure that any fighting in the movie would be comparable to any male actor. Everything from stick fighting to horse riding was real to her.
Mrs Thatcher not only made history by becoming Britain's first female prime minister, she was the first woman to hold any comparable position in the western world.
I am very conscious that, having worked part time, having had a rather disrupted career, my research record is a good deal patchier than any man's of a comparable age.
In reality, handing over public space to private developers does not guarantee that new library spaces will be comparable in size or otherwise remain fully-functional.
If you live in a country where there is nothing comparable to free information, often literature becomes the only way to be more or less informed about what's going on.
Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption.
Factory farming, like comparable evils throughout history, depends for its existence upon concealment. It depends on people either not noticing or willfully averting their gaze.
Without a Mayaguez, or something comparable that we don't see in the immediate future, there is probably no one thing the President can do to himself to turn this situation around.
Most people would rather sit on a plane for two hours than spend two days on a train, but there's nothing comparable to taking a relaxing rail journey with your family or good friends.
Weapons systems the U.S. sold to the Shah of Iran wound up in the hands of Islamic militants who seized power there in 1979; a comparable scenario in Saudi Arabia is hardly impossible.
Broaden the tax base, close loopholes and flatten the tax rates - all of which would bring more revenue stability and certitude to projections as well as make filing a comparable breeze.
My brother took me to my first football match when I was five, and I quickly acquired a passion for it: once you've walked into a football ground, you know there's nothing comparable to it.
Proof of the black hole is a tremendous amount of mass inside a very small volume. There's 4 million times the mass of our sun within a region that's comparable to the size of our solar system.
They have a book of locations, and we would do a story about the Sahara Desert for instance, and in the California book you would find a comparable location, to match that location in California.
A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition.
Can anyone seriously contend that whether a 14-year-old boy, who thinks he is a girl, gets to use the girls' bathroom is a civil rights issue comparable to whether African-Americans get the right to vote?
We are going to position ourselves as a world-class financial institution. We want to do things that are comparable to the best in the world. At the same time, we want to have very strong human qualities.
In contrast to the troposphere, the stratosphere is extremely dry and practically cloudless - the concentration of water vapor is measured in parts per million and is, in fact, comparable to that of ozone.
Honestly, it's such a personal issue, I really don't think my feud with Edge will ever end. It's almost comparable to the Bret Hart/Shawn Michaels thing. There is just such legit hatred between the two guys.
And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
Consumer groups fought hard to provide investor protections for 'special entities' such as pension funds, schools, and municipalities who purchase swaps. No comparable protection exists in the futures market.
I get great respect from the United fans and the directors and the people who are there still when you go there. It is a very warm club, very comparable to Ajax, only they have grown internationally amazingly.
It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.