He compared the town's situation to someone without a job.
To compare our situation with the West, we are poor.
"To compare the situation here to the other seems quite interesting."
We must compare our situation to that of a few years back.
If, however, we compare the situation today with what happened at the last elections, things are better.
These people compare the situation with the previous one and feel that they are worse off now than in the past.
It was very hard not to compare his situation with ours.
He compared the situation to getting an anonymous hate letter.
Or, and to make it even easier for you: compare the situation now, 2011, with that from, say, 1958.
He compared the situation to the carnival game of shooting ducks.