measure something against something

That's the best way to measure a team against those that came before.

Do we have to measure him against the player he was?

I measured him against me, when he was not looking.

And this life didn't really matter much, measured against the next.

That's not much measured against their total sales here, $53 billion in the first 11 months of last year.

This one was measuring himself, still, against a dead man, just as he had when his father lived.

We also read in order to measure ourselves against the good and the great, to get a sense of all that can be done.

I didn't stand up to measure my height against his.

That would have to be measured against the loss of this open space.

Measured against the way things once were, this is certainly progress.