Such a comparison reminds us that in employing low characters in his works Faulkner is recording actuality in the South and moreover is following a long-established literary precedent.

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.

But by comparison with the railroad, the motor car is a relatively new object of popular worship, so it is too much to hope that it may be brought within the bounds of civilized usage quickly and easily.

Look at the physical features of the land to determine how desirable it is for use, what can be done to correct the faults, and what it will cost to make the area meet your needs in comparison to other sites.

Selecting bunks by economic comparison is usually an individual problem.

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

Whether this abnormal TSH differs chemically from pituitary TSH, or is, alternatively, normal TSH with its period of effectiveness modified by some other blood constituent, cannot be decided without chemical study of the activity in the blood of these patients and a comparison of the substance responsible for the blood activity with pituitary Aj.

Where there is comparison or contrast, dominant stresses normally operate to center attention.

) These general facts are mentioned to make clear that the total situation in the two families is similar enough to warrant comparison.

The practical operational problem of lexicostatistics is the establishment of a basic list of items of meaning against which the particular forms or terms of languages can be matched as the medium of comparison.

And I have established that the action of municipal, county, or state school boards or boards of education is small, infinitesimally small in comparison with the number of districts.

It is as follows: `` The usual sensitivity tests showed that the specific qualities of skin-perceptiveness ( pressure, pain, temperature ), as well as the kinesthetic sensations ( muscular feelings, feelings in the tendons and joints ), were, as such, essentially intact, although they seemed, in comparison with normal reactions, to be somewhat diminished over the entire body.

Decide first what the place is worth to you and your family as a home in comparison with what it would cost to live in town.

The present understanding of the Apiales is fairly recent and is based upon comparison of DNA sequences by phylogenetic methods.

In comparison, the cerebellar granule cell axon is characterized by a single T-shaped branch node from which parallel fibers extend.

The traditional etymology is from the Latin aperire, " to open ," in allusion to its being the season when trees and flowers begin to " open ," which is supported by comparison with the modern Greek use of ἁνοιξις ( anoixis ) ( opening ) for spring.

Hell in comparison is a place of eternal torment for the wicked.

These concepts include one-to-one correspondence ( the basis of counting ), comparison to a standard ( used for measurement ), and the 3-4-5 right triangle ( a device for assuring a right angle ).

A maturity model can be used as a benchmark for comparison and as an aid to understanding-for example, for comparative assessment of different organizations where there is something in common that can be used as a basis for comparison.

In the case of the CMM, for example, the basis for comparison would be the organizations ' software development processes.

Since capital goods and labor are highly heterogeneous ( i. e. they have different characteristics that pertain to physical productivity ), economic calculation requires a common basis for comparison for all forms of capital and labour.

The common basis for comparison for capital goods must also be connected to consumer welfare.

Third, the information is useless to other individuals if it is not in a form that allows for meaningful comparisons of value ( i. e. money prices as a common basis for comparison ).

Using a common set of dimensions provides a consistent basis for assessing performance and enables the comparison of performance across jobs.

In one before-and-after comparison, malting decreased barley's extractable starch content by about 7 % on a dry matter basis, and turned that portion into various other carbohydrates.

It also states that for pre-menopausal women, Z-scores ( comparison with age group rather than peak bone mass ) rather than T-scores should be used, and that the diagnosis of osteoporosis in such women also should not be made on the basis of densitometric criteria alone.

A simile can explicitly provide the basis of a comparison or leave this basis implicit.

The actual measurement of a physical quantity, and the comparison of that measurement to a value computed on the basis of theory, was largely limited to the mathematical disciplines of astronomy and optics in Europe.

Consequently, the homo economicus assumptions have been criticized not only by economists on the basis of logical arguments, but also on empirical grounds by cross-cultural comparison.

Constructing such societies as a kind of political ideal, or at least an instructive comparison against which to denounce contemporary ( especially industrial ) societies, Zerzan uses anthropological studies from such societies as the basis for a wide-ranging critique of aspects of modern life.

Cavalli-Sforza's interest in hypothesized large-scale language families is as a basis for comparison with similarly large-scale postulated genetic classifications of human populations.

Krauss also goes on to explain the psychological basis behind the actions of video in comparison to discussions of object art.

It is a classic computer science problem, the basis of file comparison programs such as diff, and has applications in bioinformatics.

On the basis of this comparison, the program could decide to undo what it had started, complete what it had started, or keep things as they are.

This is disputed, largely because the Bon religion is so adulterated by Tibetan Buddhism today that it is difficult to find pure and authentic practitioners to use as a basis for comparison.

There are superficial points of comparison with the original Roman corrector, except that the missus was sent out on a regular basis.

That " Sinti " is derived from " Sindhi " is a notion popular among the Sinti themselves, but others have claimed that there is no basis for the comparison.

Without it, there would be no basis for aesthetic debate as there would be no objective criterion, basis for comparison, or reason from which one could develop an objective argument.

** Analogy, in language, a comparison between concepts

In quality, the soul ( jiva ) is described as being identical to God, but in terms of quantity individual jivas are said to be infinitesimal in comparison to the unlimited Supreme Being.

Being part of the cast was a dream among many Brazilian kids and in 1999 over 15. 000 people in São Paulo, 10, 000 in Rio de Janeiro and 6, 000 in Recife attended the auditions for the show's third season, breaking the record for the biggest casting ever ( as a comparison castings for Ídolos, the Brazilian version of American Idol, are attended by 2, 000 people in each state and 4, 000 in São Paulo ).

Being situated at the northern part of the Golan Heights and at an altitude of over one thousand meters above sea level gives it a unique year-round weather in comparison to most of Israel.