In addition, the conventional swing in a constituency where the top two candidates are not Conservative and Labour cannot be meaningfully compared with the national or regional swing.

As soon as the seasonal influence is removed from this time series, the unemployment rate data can be meaningfully compared across different months.

The shapes and sizes could be meaningfully compared between the same-dimensional pairs, and, random microcraters aside, the difference was barely measurable.

The flyaway cost can be meaningfully compared to another cost metric: the weapons system cost.

Thus the difficulty of an item and the ability of a person can be meaningfully compared.

This not merely makes direct comparison difficult, but it may also mean that such comparisons would be of questionable value given that they would not relate to the actual situation in which traditional and non-traditional students are competing for places, and in which their work and achievement can be meaningfully compared.

Stocks and flows have different units and are thus not commensurable - they cannot be meaningfully compared, equated, added, or subtracted.

The reader will look in vain for comparisons to results from prior years, but as the stories explain, the tests given this year are the first of their kind and so cannot be meaningfully compared to previous writing scores.

This means that the ratings can only be meaningfully compared between cars of the same type and size.

The information provided by the Commission on recoveries and other corrections is not yet completely reliable and cannot be meaningfully compared with the Court's estimated error rate.