But this matches what has happened around the world in comparable situations.

To put yourself in a comparable situation, imagine that you are a marathon runner.

"This is not a comparable situation to the Reynolds rolling mill deal," he said.

There do not appear to be any directly comparable situations in recent history.

What would his ma do in a comparable situation?

There is no comparable situation in the major leagues.

"I don't know of any comparable situation in the history of the city."

A comparable situation would be a nut in a nutcracker.

"If you had a comparable economic situation to 1990-91, with today's rating mix, we think you'd have a 17 percent default rate for two years."

And so far as he knew, a comparable situation had never before happened in company history, but that still was insufficient reason.