Children almost always begin by being serious, which is what makes them so entertaining when compared with adults as a class.

Here we can see the original reference file being compared to the user generated content.

The flavor of the week in Rio is sustainability indexing for corporations, by way of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Such indexing is being compared to accounting standards.

These figures reveals that compared to the problem of being unable to afford homes, the biggest risk of 'Grey Rhinoceros' for Chinese residents at present is likely to be being unable to repay debt.

Death is often compared to sleep.

Compared to Tokyo, London is small.

Compared with yours, my car is small.

Life is often compared to a journey.

Compared to yours, my car is small.

Compared with him, she is very noisy.

So life appeared on Earth within half a billion years of it being possible, which is short compared to the 10 billion year lifetime of a planet of Earth type.

If you are a NBA player and you are always being compared to Michael Jordan, you're going to look not so impressive.

He remarked that this being his third visit to Puntland , the security situation was much improved compared to his previous two visits.

The earth is small compared with the sun.

Compared to our house, yours is a mansion.

As I say, if you're in a swarm, your odds of being the unlucky one are reduced as compared to a small group.

The resettlement departures from Africa rose by over 13 per cent in 2004, with 19,530 persons being resettled, compared to 17,255 resettled in 2003.

Although there are at present some 54,000 periodic benefits being paid compared to 27,000 in 1987, staff levels have not increased over those 17 years.

So I took the food supply of every single country and I compared it to what was actually likely to be being consumed in each country.

Try to imagine a gorilla performing the same maneuver, and you can see that, compared with gorilla, we are halfway to being shaped like a fish.

That is where biomarkers make a difference. They can help drug makers to design clinical studies that will show a high relative treatment difference between the drug and whatever it is being compared to (often a placebo, but sometimes another treatment).

This rate is considered low, compared with other Latin American countries.

The combination of good rains and an increased percentage of the population being active make it likely that the harvest will improve as compared to last season.

A guide on projects, including cost benefit analysis has been issued and published on the Intranet and is being used for major projects (ITC projects are of limited size and value compared with those of other organizations).

The dramatic increase in the number of disputes now being referred to the Court, when compared with the 1970s, is a clear manifestation of the confidence of the international community in the Court's discharge of its functions.

A man's will is nothing when compared to that of the heavens.

The number of cases worldwide each year is now in the hundreds, compared to many tens of thousands when the campaign began. Success is being achieved in even the most remote and difficult places, such as the poverty stricken states of northern India.

About 12 percent of women reported being assaulted by a spouse in the five year period prior to the 1993 survey, compared with eight percent who reported violence during a similar time period in 1999, a drop which is statistically significant.

The enrollment of ethnic pupils is on the rise compared to the year 2000.

Second, the rate of increase is double for women compared to that of men.

When validation experiments were performed that compared the DNA from one normal, healthy individual with the DNA from another normal, healthy individual, we were astonished to find an average of 12 DNA fragments that showed copy number differences between the two individuals being compared. These became known as copy number variants, or CNVs.

China s median age is today 34.5 years, compared to 36.9 years for the US. However, the average Chinese will be 42.5 years old by 2030, compared to 39.1 for the average American.

Can he, then, who is a believer, be compared to he who is wicked? They are not equal.

Can he, then, who is a believer, be compared to he who is wicked? They are not equal.

The basic finding is that the contraceptive prevalence rate is lower among rural women compared to urban women.

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.

But Ning Zetao needs to see whether he is qualified enough compared with his predecessors.

Data on the percentage of women compared to men who own property is not available.

It was noted, however, that the analysis in the draft report on costing could not be supported, as the various elements of comparison were not the same among the organizations being compared.

At the end of this July, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi pointed out at the Coordinator Meeting of the Forum on China Africa Cooperation Summit that investment cooperation is being a new powerful impetus for promoting China Africa cooperation compared to assistance.

Emergency contributions decreased by 12 per cent compared to 2003 and 3 per cent compared to the financial plan.

Finally, the Commission s annual development assistance to Afghanistan is falling this year, from 200 million to 150 million. Individual commitments are also being cut for example, France s five year, 33 million pledge for reconstruction support is strikingly low compared to its total foreign aid budget of 9 billion.

The adult literacy rate in China is 77 percent as compared with 48 percent in India.

You've all learned that in school how small the Earth is compared to the immense universe.

Compared with these people, Ning Zetao is slightly weaker for the title of Swimming World Championships.