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Usage examples of comparisons.

Questions that emerge from worldwide comparisons of human societies formerly attracted much attention from historians and geographers.

Yet the compression brings a compensating benefit: long-term comparisons of regions yield insights that cannot be won from short-term studies of single societies.

These comparisons suggest that geographic connectedness has exerted both positive and negative effects on the evolution of technology.

The student of human history can draw on many more natural experiments than just comparisons among the five inhabited continents.

Evolutionary biologists have recently been developing ever more sophisticated methods for drawing conclusions from comparisons of different plants and animals of known evolutionary histories.

I can only make comparisons with how I feel about my companies, and that probably isn't the same.

He knew, of course, that the SFPD hadn't done any comparisons of this sort, simply because they'd never had any doubts that all the murders had been committed by the same person.

They will doubtless have comparisons made between the props used in the San Francisco murders and the props used in Boston.

And that's the answer to the differences Wild Ralph York found in all the physical comparisons he did of the murders.

He shuts his ears to my comparisons, but admits, that as I am the principal person concerned, etc.

Nora might perhaps have tried to fall in love with Mr Glascock, had she not been forced to make comparisons between him and another.

In spite, however, of all that, she felt herself compelled to make comparisons between Mr Glascock and one Mr Hugh Stanbury, a gentleman who had not a shilling.

As Nora Rowley had made comparisons about him, so had he made comparisons about.

When Nora Rowley made those comparisons between Mr Hugh Stanbury and Mr Charles Glascock, they were always wound up very much in favour of the briefless barrister.

She made comparisons between him and Mr Gibson, and tried to convince herself that the judgment, which was always pronounced very clearly in Brooke's favour, came from anything but her heart.