measure up to

"But the things that I deal with can in no way measure up to the pain that the families deal with. I just pray for the families and pray for the children who lost their lives every day."

But there were indications that Bronfman’s bid wouldn’t measure up to Skydance Media’s $8.4-billion proposal, which controlling shareholder Shari Redstone and Paramount’s board approved in July.

“Even though I’ve had my own struggles, it’s as if they can’t measure up to what she’s going through and therefore aren’t important.”

But even so, he may never come across a specimen quite like the one he stumbled upon a couple of years ago, an animal so massive that if it appeared on a London street, it would measure up to an old, double-decker Routemaster bus - though you’d want to be careful about which one you boarded.

Scientists are amazed at the discovery of a bristle worm with such sharp-seeing eyes that they can measure up to those of mammals and octopuses.