11.   Smith testily shrugged off the sniggering of bystanders at his modest stretch of historical comparison.

12.   That distorts historical comparisons based on operating profits.

13.   That historical comparison is none too grand for Marshall Ganz, who participated in Freedom Summer, then spent years organizing the United Farm Workers.

14.   The easiest way to explain this far-from-radical premise is with a bit of historical comparison.

15.   The drop has provoked a profusion of historical comparisons.

16.   This obviously includes some repetitions, and the database is larger for more recent years, but the historical comparison is nevertheless ominous.

17.   Toyota Tsusho went forward with the sale, figuring the interest it paid was still low by historical comparison, the finance manager said.

18.   But her flat rebuttal of the historical comparison has left the Scientologists cold.