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  • The author at Houston's Clear Thinkers in a related article titled Comparing the British and American health care systems writes:

    Health Care Commentaries, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Comparing which is better is like comparing sex and class or sex and race.

    Language around trans, how it works, how it doesn’t… 2007

  • Comparing institutions on a global scale, by various yard- and metersticks, evaluators routinely fill many of the top two hundred spots on their lists with U.S. colleges and universities.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Comparing names to printed lists, they gingerly direct traffic.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • Comparing legitimate employment with piracy, Roberts quipped, “In an honest Service there is thin Commons, low Wages, and hard Labour; in this, Plenty and Satiety, Pleasure and Ease, Liberty and Power.”

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • We have explored in greater statistical detail the question of which of these issues most divided evangelicals and other Americans over this period, controlling for demographic differences as well as views on all these issues simultaneously.45 Comparing two statistical twins in this sense, the one who judged premarital sex to be “always wrong” was nearly twice as likely to be an evangelical as the one who judged premarital sex “sometimes” or “always” acceptable.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • Comparing the 1998 and 2007 National Congregational Studies, sociologist Michael Emerson reports “dramatic growth” in the diversity of large, evangelical congregations.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • Comparing institutions on a global scale, by various yard- and metersticks, evaluators routinely fill many of the top two hundred spots on their lists with U.S. colleges and universities.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Comparing, say, two demographically matched young college-educated liberal women or comparing two demographically matched older less educated conservative men, the one who seldom attends church is likely to be more supportive of the civil liberties of racists, militarists, and so forth than is her more religiously observant counterpart.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • Comparing Olympic hopeful sprinter Oscar Pistorius, a double-leg amputee, to ultrarunner Amy Palmiero-Winters, a single-leg amputee, is impossible, says the co-author of a study that found Pistorius 'light and springy prosthetics enhanced sprint speeds by 15%-30%.

    Running down a dream: Leg amputee makes U.S. track team 2010

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