Sentences with phrase «to make a direct comparison»

Again, I can't make direct comparisons between the two films, but I think the extended World still suffers from the same issue.

It is used to make direct comparisons of nutrient profiles with differing moisture contents.

The different time frame makes direct comparisons impossible, but the Switch appears to have done roughly as well.

There are dozens, or even hundreds of complications with these types of studies, which is why you can't always make direct comparisons.

In essence, the legal department now uses a systematic, closed - loop process by which to measure outside counsel partners and makes direct comparisons on matter pricing.

If you want to make a direct comparison between dry dog food and wet dog food, you need to convert the crude fat percentage of the wet food to dry matter.

The changing context of healthcare is forcing reforms on the NHS, making direct comparisons with past performances difficult.

This step enables us to compare like with like, making a direct comparison of absolute spending totals more meaningful.

«It's difficult to make a direct comparison given how different the market landscape is now compared to when we released «DRAGON QUEST IX,» which was back when home consoles were in their prime.

Even Daniel Weaver, one of the New York tax study's authors, told me: You «can't make a direct comparison from 1981 to now.»

[1] The question of change rather than absolute levels of immigration has rarely been addressed at a small geographic scales; this is because of changing electoral boundaries, making direct comparison difficult.

It would be nice if there was something to easily compare the Sleepy Portfolio against, but the regular contributions make direct comparisons against other products more challenging.

That means making direct comparisons between AWS and the Google cloud isn't perfectly fair.

Time and again, interviewers make direct comparisons between the costs of green energy and fossil fuels, without including the costs of the carbon sequestration needed to clean up resultant pollution, which would give a truly balanced comparison.

«Astronomical surveys from space telescopes like Planck or Hubble observe a large segment of the visible universe while sophisticated simulations so far could only model very small parts of the universe, making a direct comparison virtually impossible,» says Klaus Dolag.

Thankfully, Asiana follows a more standard region - based award chart for partner awards, making direct comparisons much easier.

This, combined with checkpoint - style respawn locations and a constantly - changing time of day make direct comparisons in interesting locations impossible.

Moreover, September data is not yet available which makes any direct comparison with the cited GISS values impossible.

In fact, Canary made a direct comparison to the ag industry's advances with his statement that «We see drones as forestry's tractor.»

That way, you will be able to make a direct comparison among numerous insurance products and companies — and from there, you can determine which one will be the best for you and your specific needs.

This article makes a direct comparison between a pair of Sonos Ones and a single Google Home Max.

I obviously couldnt make any direct comparisons to other speakers at the event, but I did get to listen to it in an acoustically sealed space and I liked what I heard.

I did not make direct comparisons with TIPS beyond noting that there was a substantial distortion during times of deflation.

Making a direct comparison from earlier this month, Apple announced the iPhone 4S a week after the Kindle Fire was annouced.

All 1997 Mercury Tracer base prices are less than 1996 models, but model designations have been changed, making direct comparisons difficult.

Because of these and other changes, the NCAJ cautions against making direct comparisons between the two sets of findings.

BuyCalls tried to investigate the issue but couldn't make a direct comparison; the call centers worked independently, each with its own reporting and inter-active voice response (IVR) systems.

It's challenging to make direct comparisons between extreme rainfall events since their weather systems (e.g., hurricanes, thunderstorms) behave differently, so scientists draw on several benchmarks depending on the situation.

If you look at the same passage where St. Paul talks about people being «androgynous», he makes a direct comparison — «like the angels» — which implies that angels don't mate at all either.

In fact if you want to make a direct comparison with Chelsea you can see how Mourinho has balance in his front 3 behind Costa with Hazard on one side for flair and second striker option (for Arsenal read Alexis) and Willian on the other side.

You can place both solid and liquids into the two clear buckets to make direct comparisons.

It's true, we can't make a direct comparison to hospital outcomes (because they include women with different risk factors), but this isn't as much a comparison to hospital care as it is an independent study that stands on its own.

He later told reporters he did not mean to make a direct comparison.

The tests given this year were shorter, and given without a time limit — changes that made a direct comparison with prior years difficult, state officials said.

The team of researchers included information from 81 trials in total, of which 55 made the direct comparison between the retropubic and transobturator routes.

The two are so closely related that we can make direct comparisons, says Lister: habitat loss plus hunting could be a lethal combination for modern elephants too.

James Garvin from the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland is anticipating a wealth of information about the surface of Mars — «We will be able to make direct comparisons between dramatic Martian landforms, such as Olympus Mons and Valles Marineris, and their terrestrial counterparts.»

In their study, the team collated data from numerous studies and locations in order to make a direct comparison of the microbial diversity in these two distant regions for the first time.

In order to make direct comparisons between topographies, the researchers dialed down the resolution of maps for Earth and Mars, to match the resolution available for Titan.

«Our flight plan around Ceres will be choreographed to be very similar to the strategy that we successfully used around Vesta,» said Bob Mase, Dawn's project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «This approach will build on that and enable scientists to make direct comparisons between these two giants of the asteroid belt.»

Because of the shopping elements and all of the interactive aspects that go way beyond just that moment of the show and relate to collections that will be for sale for the next several weeks, it's not easy to make a direct comparison,» Baker says.

In that sense I feel that making direct comparisons between Splatoon and the overall online shooter genre does it a disservice.