he usually draws some kind of comparison with the jazz tradition and the poem he is reading -- for instance, he draws the parallel between a poem he reads about an Oriental courtesan waiting for the man she loves, and who never comes, and the old blues chants of Ma Rainy and other Negro singers -- but usually the comparison is specious.

The great resemblance between electrical and magnetic attractions and repulsions and the similarity of their laws necessarily would bring about this comparison.

It is evident that many marked and striking differences exist between lungs when an inter-species comparison is made.

* Throughout Robertson Davies's The Manticore a comparison is repeatedly made between the protagonist's problematic relations with his father and those of between the Biblical Absalom and King David.

Steiner strongly objected and considered any comparison between Krishnamurti and Christ to be nonsense ; many years later, Krishnamurti also repudiated the assertion.

Cuyp probably first encountered a painting by van Goyen in 1640 when van Goyen was, as Stephen Reiss points out “ at the height of powers .” This is noticeable in the comparison between two of Cuyp ’ s landscape paintings inscribed 1639 where no properly formed style is apparent and the landscape backgrounds he painted two years later for two of his father ’ s group portraits that are distinctly van Goyenesque.

Noise figure is a comparison between the output signal to noise ratio and the thermal noise of the input signal.

Michael Rugg, of the Bigfoot Discovery Museum, presented a comparison between human, Gigantopithecus and Meganthropus skulls ( reconstructions made by Grover Krantz ) in episodes 131 and 132 of the Bigfoot Discovery Museum Show.

A comparison of genes within a species or between different species can show similarities between protein functions, or relations between species ( the use of molecular systematics to construct phylogenetic trees ).

The writer of the pesher draws a comparison between the Babylonian invasion of the original text and the Roman threat of the writer's own period.

A comparison between 21 inch Superslim and Ultraslim CRT

Under ideal ( adiabatic ) conditions, the exponent would be 1. 4, but a lower value, generally between 1. 2 and 1. 3 is used, since the amount of heat lost will vary among engines based on design, size and materials used, but provides useful results for purposes of comparison.

A direct comparison between a fast hand-drawn replica crossbow and a longbow show a 6: 10 rate of fire.

" Burr finds that a comparison between Calef's work and original documents in the historical record collections " testify to the care and exactness ..."

If the weight of the roadway per unit length is w and the weight of the cable and the wire supporting the bridge is negligible in comparison, then the weight on the cable from c to r is wx where x is the horizontal distance between c to r. Proceeding as before gives the differential equation

No one can make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.

A comparison between the methods employed in the USA and other nations discloses some similarities in emphasis, but also other nuances in emphasis.

In this setting, the distance between two points and is gauged not by a real number via the metric in the comparison < math >

The third figure, for example, shows a comparison of a double-slit pattern with a pattern formed by five slits, both sets of slits having the same spacing, between the center of one slit and the next.

William York Tindall, in his 1962 study, A Reader's Guide to Dylan Thomas, finds comparison between Thomas ' and Joyce's wordplay, while he notes the themes of rebirth and nature are common to the works of Lawrence and Thomas.

For comparison, the similarly sized NASA Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity had, by their fifth anniversary in January 2009, traveled a total of and transmitted over 125, 000 images.

Belgium had a population of 10, 839, 905 people on January 1st, 2010, an increase of 601, 000 in comparison to 2000 ( 10, 239, 085 inhabitants ).

* Average score in the ISP security comparison by Ghusse, January 2010: 18 / 50

By comparison the values for 2009 were 2, 070. 8 mm, the wettest month being March with 326. 2 mm and the driest, January, with 56. 4 mm.

On 6 January, negotiations began with the main guerrilla group, the URNG, but this time under the auspices of both the United Nations and the Organization of American States ( OAS ), and with a reduced role of the Guatemalan military in comparison with the previous negotiations.

On January 20, 2007, Military Chief General Hermogenes Esperon Jr. announced the identity of the corpse has been confirmed, through a DNA comparison with a brother of the militant conducted by the American FBI.

In January 1984, after testing the car, they concluded: " In comparison with opposition of a similar price and body size, the Maestro has a clear advantage on room for passengers, with few cars equalling it for comfort either in the front or back ".

In January 1990 UK's Car Magazine ran a comparison of the 2. 0 Si against the BMW 520i and Lancia Thema 16V 2. 0 in a review of lower-end executive sector cars.

In a January 2011 comparison test by Car and Driver, the Land Rover LR4 came in fourth place out of five cars behind the Audi Q7, BMW X5, and Acura MDX.

The January 2009 financial report for the company recorded a drop of more than 97 % in income in comparison to the previous year.

Belgium had a population of 10, 839, 905 people on 1 January 2010, an increase of 601, 000 in comparison to 2000 ( 10, 239, 085 inhabitants ).

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* January 2007: Edmunds. com places the Tundra first in their 1 / 2-ton comparison test.

The KOSPI is calculated as current market capitalization ( at the time of comparison ) divided by base market capitalization ( as of January 4, 1980 ).

The specialist magazine, Der Feinschmecker ( English: The Gastronome ), gave the original Salzburg Mozartkugel first place in a comparison test of different Mozartkugeln in its January 2006 edition.

Soumitra Chatterjee or Soumitra Chattopadhyay ( Shoumitro Chôṭṭopaddhae ; born 19 January 1935 ) is an iconic Bengali actor from India, known among other things for his frequent collaborations with the great Bengali film director Satyajit Ray and his constant comparison with the Bengali screen idol Uttam Kumar.

A comparison of the original field notes, transcript notes, plats and report of the examiner, shows that at the season of the year ( from December 1, 1884 to January 3, 1885 ) when the deputy pretends to have made the surveys, the deep snows made the survey at that time impossible ; that in the original notes ( which are now in this office ) much is omitted that is found in the transcripts and data supplied from memory, or rather made up ; that disregarding clerical errors the transcripts are not in any sense copies of the original notes ; that triangulations omitted in originals are audaciously given in detail in the transcripts, just as if they had really been made in the field, that the high speed, more than 6 miles per day, at which it is pretended the work was executed, surpasses belief when we take into consideration the nature of the ground, and bear in mind that the surveying was done during the shortest days of the year ; that the deputy gives descriptions of erroneous bearing trees where no such trees, either as regards size or species, are to be found ; that in the face of all the embarrassing conditions, big canyons, high and steep mountains, deep snow, impenetrable chaparral, precipices impossible to ascend or descend, the deputy with his two parties of four men each, frequently with the impassable San Joaquin river between them, pretends to have subdivided T8SR24E at the rate of more than 6 miles per day, and then accomplishes the feat of recording all this work in one field book.

Since the Victor ledgers show no less than five recording sessions in January and February 1926, when King actually conducted Goldkette ’ s Orchestra, comparison between the approach of Goldkette and King is readily available.

" – a comparison between the Green Goddess and modern fire engines, at BBC News, 22 October 2002

He was as eager a champion of parliamentary reform as he had been of Catholic emancipation, and one of his best fighting speeches was delivered at Taunton in October 1831 when be made his well-known comparison of the House of Lords with Mrs Partington of Sidmouth, setting out with mop and pattens to stem the Atlantic in a storm.

A comparison of dates and migratory patterns leads to the conclusion that Eskimo Curlews and American Golden Plovers were the most likely shore birds to have attracted the attention of Christopher Columbus to nearby America in early October 1492, after 65 days at sea out of sight of land.

In comparison, the highest price for a sculpture from her New York years is £ 72, 500 ($ 147, 687 ), fetched by the 1965 wool, pasta, paint and hanger assemblage Golden Macaroni Jacket at Sotheby ’ s London in October 2007.

Waugh ’ s Decline and Fall bore a dedication to Harold ‘ in Homage and Affection ’, but when Harold ’ s own novel – disastrously entitled Humdrum – appeared in October 1928, it was slated in comparison with Decline and Fall by critics such as Cyril Connolly.

On October 16, 1997, Excite purchased Netbot, a comparison shopping agent.

For comparison the Danish communists were packed into cars with " only " fifty people in each ; nevertheless, they quickly began to suffer from heat, thirst and lack of ventilation ; furthermore, on October 5, shortly before being unloaded in Danzig, they received ( filthy ) water for the first time since they had left Copenhagen.

These were taken before the start of the experiment ( September 1972 ), and after ( October 1973 ), giving ' before ' and ' after ' conditions for comparison.

This perception is out of date however, with the Class 170 DMUs maintained there being ( year to October 2009 ) the second most reliable new-generation DMUs in the UK at some 16, 000 miles per 5-minute delay, while over the same period the reliability of the depot's Class 90-hauled trains was respectable in comparison with other inter-city trains.

October 14, 1988 saw a minor restyle offered for the interior and dashboard, to provide a more luxurious appearance in comparison to the Nissan and Toyota uplevel sedans the Legend was competing with.

Figure 4 from the October 2006 Lancet survey of Iraq War mortality, showing a comparison of 3 mortality estimates.

Lula and Alckmin faced one another in a run-off election on October 29, 2006, in which Alckmin actually lost votes in comparison to the first run and Lula was reelected the president of Brazil.

In 1971, the team slipped to a 7 – 6 – 1 record, but the decline paled in comparison to the death of Lions wide receiver Chuck Hughes in the waning moments of the October 24 game against the Chicago Bears.

The rebuttal centred mainly on Vialls ' comparison of the Pentagon crash with an incident in which an Israeli El Al 747-200F cargo plane, flight 1862, crashed into a 12-story apartment block in the Amsterdam suburb of Bijlmer on 4 October 1992.