The scale of the current flooding has prompted inevitable biblical comparisons.
But the prevalence of skull fractures soon prompted unflattering comparisons with boxing and bullfighting.
They are among the most distinctive features of his scores, and have prompted comparisons with his other characteristics.
Such woes prompt comparisons with an earlier orbital complex, one that most Americans have probably forgotten.
The last aspect has prompted comparisons between him and Robin Hood.
Already he is prompting comparisons to another Democrat known for feeling people's pain: Mr. Clinton.
This opened him up to ridicule and prompted negative comparisons to the far more gregarious Mantle.
Mr. Perot's third-force candidacy prompted comparisons, when he was at his peak, with the famous 1912 election.
It is a mechanism that may prompt useful comparisons between the practices of the authorities in the Member States.
The very widespread scale of the violence prompted comparisons with the Gordon Riots of 1780.