The Social Security deficit pales by comparison with the deficits created by Bush s huge tax cuts for upper income Americans or in comparison with the deficit in Medicare, which provides health care for the aged.

Friedman is right that social comparison drives human anxieties, if not conflict, but this is equally true when economies are growing.

E. Ring comparison

Underlying theory The effectiveness of peer support is believed to derive from a variety of psychosocial processes described best by Mark Salzer in 2002 social support, experiential knowledge, social learning theory, social comparison theory and the helper therapy principle.

Obviously, not all cases are so unambiguous, but a comparison of the qualities of individual lives must be part of any reasonable social policy.

For a comparison of the current security vulnerabilities of browsers, see comparison of web browsers.

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The first is comparison of case studies, the second is controlled comparison among variants of a common derivation, and the third is comparison within a sample of cases.

The table provides a comparison

Tax revenue is included for comparison.

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The region conducts its own comparison programme independently of the International Comparison Programme, and there are 43 countries in their jurisdiction.

Obviously, such a comparison has its limits.

Once again, Abbas looked feeble in comparison.

Financial crises are almost comforting by comparison.

Clearly there are limits to the comparison.

Bhargav Thantry made a comparison on Facebook

In Poland, for example, the prevailing mix of Catholicism and nationalism made society particularly resistant to communism (certainly in comparison with the egalitarian, social democratic ethos of pre war Czechoslovakia).

Other global challenges appear relatively minor in comparison.

But even this comparison involves a selection bias.

But this comparison does not bear serious examination.

By comparison, there are six mosques in Moscow.

Comparison with the previous biennium by major programmes

Table 6 Comparison of reserves and staff liabilities

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The comparison between the two was to his disadvantage.

The comparison here is to the Cold War period.

China, in comparison, now looks like a respectable partner.

Eleven countries are participating in the International Comparison Programme.

Ten countries are participating in the International Comparison Programme.

Eleven countries are participating in the International Comparison Programme.

Comparison of the approved and filled posts, gender distribution,

The question arises whether treaty bodies face any new challenge to their role in relation to economic, social and cultural rights in comparison to other areas of law, including civil and political rights.

Country life is very peaceful in comparison with city life.

A comparison of the US and Sweden is therefore revealing.

A good comparison would be iGoogle gadgets or Facebook applications.

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Report of the World Bank on the International Comparison Programme

Fifty one countries are participating in the International Comparison Programme.

Here the DNA comparison grossly overestimates the actual relationships between species.

Yet I do not see how to avoid such a comparison.

Yet the comparison with what the French call laicité is misleading.

In comparison, the bonuses at Goldman Sachs are a rounding error.