• It is intended to help poor performers learn from the best, as well as letting people compare their area with others.

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  • If the fraud detection systems deem it as a possible fraud as they compare the above parameters with the historical trends, it flags the transaction appropriately to the manual screening team.

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  • Bear with me as we compare your hotel to Santa Claus.

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  • But Brock, dubbed "King of the Mountain" for his unparalleled record at the daunting track in New South Wales, said he viewed is as a genuine endurance win to compare with his others.

    BBC: Brock sets Bathurst record

  • One of the main reasons why few medical interventions, apart from new drugs, have been put through their paces in clinical trials is that it is rarely regarded as sufficient to compare a new treatment with no treatment at all.

    ECONOMIST: Trial and error

  • As such, they can compare the frequency with which individuals purchase either baseball or football tickets.

    FORBES: Connect

  • Now, you could argue that it's a pretty unambitious benchmark to compare yourself with the UK as a whole.

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  • Advocates also claim that it's pointless for purists to compare HFR with 24 fps as it's mainly intended for 3D and not regular cinema.

    ENGADGET: Editorial: Despite shaky 48 fps Hobbit preview, high frame rates will take off

  • Most controversially, they suggest "poor productivity" is due in part to attitudes to work in the UK - which they compare unfavourably with countries such as Singapore, South Korea and Hong Kong.

    BBC: British workers 'among worst idlers', suggest Tory MPs

  • Few attempt, as The Economist does, to compare global programmes with one another.

    ECONOMIST: Which MBA?

  • AIMR's initiative recognises, so long as countries have different standards, investors cannot compare apples with apples across borders.

    ECONOMIST: Fund management

  • Investors around the world have long used ratings not just as a guide to the risk of default, but as a way to compare the riskiness of one bond with the riskiness of another.

    ECONOMIST: Rating agencies

  • Every day there are more opportunities to receive a geolocated offer from a store as they walk in the door, easily compare products with other merchants and view account balances and budgets before making a purchase and then complete the transaction.

    FORBES: Paying With Your Data: The Real Promise Of Mobile Wallets

  • DNA, for example, it is useful to compare it with a central database (such as GenBank) of existing sequences to see what it resembles.

    ECONOMIST: Drowning in data

  • The usual impulse is to compare emerging markets with high yield, seeing both as highly risky categories.

    FORBES: Is Emerging Markets Debt Cheap?

  • After all, he'd just had an enormous success in Woody Allen's "Purple Rose of Cairo, " with Mr. Allen going so far as to compare him to Cary Grant.

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  • But as the children got older, Kendall began to compare their childhood unfavorably with his own, and to feel guilty.

    NEWYORKER: Great Experiment

  • And yes, we can then all go off and compare this with the Apple model which is to make as gargantuanly large margins on the hardware as possible and then still try to take a margin on the sale of content though iTunes and the like.

    FORBES: Amazon Makes No Hardware Margins On The Kindle

  • The vast majority of the research did not directly compare gaming with hours of other intense, mental activities such as solving math equations.

    WSJ: When Gaming Is Good for You

  • Marine conservationists compare it to a bulldozer, with the nets pulled for as far as 20km, picking up turtles, coral and anything else in their path.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • Earl Attlee said the cost of tickets bought in advance "compare well with our continental partners" but admitted that, as confirmed by his personal experience, this was not the case with same-day travel.

    BBC: Transport peer 'could not afford' same-day rail fare

  • If we have to watch an actor expire for two hours, Redgrave is the one to watch, and Meryl Streep, playing the long-ago bride, now grown old, has a fine moment, too, lying in bed with Redgrave as the two women look at the past and compare marriages.

    NEWYORKER: Evening

  • Compare an innovation as incredibly mundane as a new plastic lid for paint cans with a whiz-bang, new computer chip.

    FORBES: The Fable Of Market Meritocracy

  • That left the Scots as champions by virtue of points scored, but how does the current crop compare with that of 10 years ago?

    BBC: Scots need spirit of 1999

  • Enrollment at the secondary level has grown, both in absolute terms and as a proportion of the student-age population, and attainment rates compare favorably with those of other industrial countries.

    UNESCO: II Part Analytic Section

  • "Beware the 12-division strategy for a 10-division Army, " Shinseki told his Pentagon audience and then went on to compare America's war in Iraq with the war he knew as a junior officer in Vietnam.

    CNN: Punished for telling truth about Iraq war

  • To understand the importance of the mix, says Max Warburton of Bernstein Research, compare the cost of producing a small car such as the popular Fiat 500 with that of making a hulking sport-utility vehicle such as the Audi Q7.

    ECONOMIST: The car industry

  • As we rode through the enormous city, I couldn't help but compare Beijing with Shenyang.

    NPR: Lang Lang: A Life In Music, So Far

  • The picture was identified as a Mozart portrait when an expert on the composer used computer analysis to compare it with another painted 13 years earlier.

    BBC: NEWS | Europe | Gallery discovers Mozart portrait

  • At an aggregate level, say supporters of the idea, the debt and deficit figures of the euro zone compare favourably with those of America and Britain, whose bonds are treated as safe.

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