Relations were further undermined when the magazine division decided to cut 605 journalistic jobs - a decision that provoked indignant comparisons of Mr. Ross's salary and those of the people being laid off.

Reference to earlier styles provoked unfavourable comparisons: the aim of comprehensibility and accessibility was seen to have been better achieved by music of the past and in more authentic forms (Schubert 2001).

The potato pancakes, known in Polish as placki, deserve to be sampled, if only to provoke passionate comparisons with the output of various Jewish restaurants and grandmothers.

And the production is sure to provoke comparisons with the revival of the same play, with Alan Bates and the indisputably female Frances de la Tour, which opens June 23 in Stratford.

The setting up, lighting and manipulation of the image is their subject and they provoke comparisons with Namuth's more straightforward approach.

Confronted by a decimated little church surrounded by devastation and the bodies of dead Austrian soldiers, Williams was provoked to make telling, uneasy comparisons with his life in New Zealand.

Such sentiments as Mr. Bossi's often provoke comparisons with those of Austria's right-wing leader, Jörg Haider.

He provokes comparisons to great names.

His depiction of the pileus as a winged cap has provoked comparisons with Roman Republic denarii, which art historian Cornelius Vermeule considered superficial.

Unfortunately his looks and to some extent his adventurous playing style provoked easy comparisons with George Best, the ultimate wayward genius.