Comparing apples with oranges is easy compared to this: This is comparing apples with algebra.
Long, unleveraged ETFs will generally behave as you would expect when comparing with its index.
The February sales price of newly constructed residential buildings in 70 large and medium-sized cities decreased in only 8 cities remained stable in 6 cities comparing with the previous month.
Comparing with May 2010, the sales prices in three cities declined, with just one city declining more versus the same period a year ago than it had declined in April compared to the same year ago period.
So in comparing his career with someone like Hamilton's or Alonso's you are not comparing like with like.
In one study in 2004 researchers at the University of Toronto used positron emission tomography scanning to track the brain activity of 14 depressed patients who had successfully been treated with CBT, comparing them with 13 patients who got better by taking only Paxil.
Comparing Apple with Microsoft is like comparing an apple to an orange.
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At that point we began getting serious in our discussion with USACE and began comparing notes with our European counterparts on technology advances they had already started.
Instead of paying half its workers with the new method and comparing them with the other half, a company could pick five or 10 workers and compare them with their synthetic selves.
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Why do we feel the need to boost our image by comparing ourselves with CEOs?
Figures comparing 2011 with 2012 show visitors from the Gulf increased dramatically over that single year.
The figures for the region comparing 2010 with 2011 are worse than the national average.
Comparing Microsoft with Coca-Cola, the latter holds to a much higher but less predictable growth rate.
This was done by comparing data with findings from the Randomised Badger Culling Trial (RBCT).
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Some investors perceive that emerging markets debt is inexpensive because they are comparing it with high yield corporate debt.
Privately held companies were valued by comparing them with similar publicly traded companies.
Overall crime, comparing 2001 with 2012, dropped a little less than a third.
"We don't have any specific research comparing SUVs with and without electronic stability control in winter-road conditions, " says Rader.
Ricks' computers appraise companies by comparing them with competitors in each business line.
But the complete El Tor genome now allows Dr Mekalanos and his colleagues to start comparing it with non-pathogenic strains.
New drugs are subjected to rigorous trials comparing them with existing treatments or placebos before they are allowed on the market.
Privately held companies were valued by comparing them with similar public companies.
But the company insisted the risk was an illusion caused by comparing Vioxx with naproxen, another pain pill they said protected the heart.
"In many ways, we are ahead of the curve, " Haarde said, comparing Iceland with Greece, Spain, Portugal and Ireland, which also received bailouts.
The right way to assess Part D is by comparing it with programs where the government is allowed to use its purchasing power.
Although she says that in practice A-levels are now so different from a generation ago that it is "not comparing like with like".
So don't contribute any more to your state's plan than you are permitted to deduct without first comparing it with plans in other states.
Just comparing Kenya with its neighbours shows that this country is an island of peace in a region that is home to civil strife.
"Comparing the pre- and post- figures is like comparing apples with oranges, " Mr McNulty told MPs during a debate on police funding on 3 February 2010.
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