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Simple sentences
One emu egg is about the equivalent of nine chicken eggs.
That Japanese word has no equivalent in English.
The two books are equivalent in value.
One dollar is equivalent to 110 yen.
His request was equivalent to an order.
This book is the literary equivalent of Haribo sweets: you only want to eat one, but end up devouring the whole packet.
A kilo of ketchup is equivalent to two kilos of tomatoes.
What is the Turkish equivalent to meditation?
Give me the equivalent in dollars.
In the United States, a tablespoon is equivalent to three teaspoons.
The Administration has already established the toughest fuel economy standards for passenger vehicles in U.S. history. These standards require an average performance equivalent of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.
The ages of the two children put together was equivalent to that of their father.
The area of a triangle is half of the area of the rectangle with equivalent base and height.
Two eggs provide 140 calories, the equivalent of some 350 grams of milk and 50 grams of meat.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written in normal English can reproduce the style of Aristotle.
A digital signature file is the modern equivalent of the signet ring.
It's equivalent to sawing off the branch you're sitting on.
It's the equivalent of sawing off the branch you're sitting on.
Movie subtitles
Here on Walpurgis Night, which is the equivalent of our own Halloween, the creatures of evil gather to worship their master.
It'll give us the equivalent of 250 men.
There's no regulation, but if a man has initiative and the power to lead, as I believe you have, he has an equivalent responsibility.
This first one is equivalent to a 10 ton bomb, 50 feet from the wall, as in the earlier experiments.
Both are at a depth equivalent to 30 feet.
THAT'S ROUGHLY EQUIVALENT TO A TRIP TO THE MOON, SEVERAL ORBITS AND RETURN.
Then they all landed equivalent positions at Public Corp.
Jules' and Jim's friendship had no equivalent in love.
He said if I read from Ab-Bu to Ya-Zu it'd be the equivalent of a college education.
Oh, I'll stake the cash equivalent!
Do you know, Pickering, if you think of a shilling. not as a simple shilling, but as a percentage of this girl's income. it works out as fully equivalent of. 60 or 70 pounds from a millionaire.
It has a warhead equivalent to one Hiroshima bomb.
The world's stockpile of thermo-nuclear weapons has doubled within the last five years and now is the equivalent of almost 20 tons of high explosive to every man, woman and child on the planet.
Equivalent to 1 000 degrees Fahrenheit.
It's equivalent to about 3 cents a day.
Did you know that the letters of our soldiers overseas are being photographed on microfilm so that one carrier pigeon can carry the equivalent of 18,000 letters?
Now, men, you're going to have an unusual opportunity for target practice under circumstances equivalent to actual warfare.
What equivalent altitude pressure will this withstand?
Well, Rudolph's about, uh, the equivalent of 84 years old in a human.
Instead of using ten kilos of uranium or plutonium to blow a hydrogen bomb, I use the equivalent of a button.
The way she flies that F-86, the Soviets must have an equivalent type. She sure is fully operational with it.
Let's say No. 2 wins. The equivalent letter is B.
Each one is the equivalent of a triple martini.
Jules' and Jim's friendship had no equivalent in love. They delighted together in the smallest things.
I'll stake the cash equivalent.
Do you know, Pickering, if you think of a shilling not as a simple shilling, but as a percentage of this girl's income it works out as fully equivalent of 60 or 70 pounds from a millionaire.
Wasn't there the equivalent of a Hall of Records? Of course.
This is equivalent to selling our country.
Sergeant, will you explain to Private Winters that as a Navy nurse, I hold rank equivalent to a lieutenant and should be addressed in the same manner as a commissioned officer.
That is the equivalent, sir, of L26,250.
We have lamps that give the exact equivalent of sunlight.
That's the equivalent of a death sentence.
We decided that a faint from fright was equivalent to running.
No, but you can move the equivalent of the sun to Deneva.
Our shields absorbed the energy equivalent to 90 of our photon torpedoes.
Or the equivalent weight in equipment.
I shall manufacture the equivalent of an ancient generating canister, more familiarly known as a gas grenade.
News and current affairs
Some people call for the cyber equivalent of formal arms-control treaties.
That's the equivalent of adding productive power equal to a quarter of the economy of India - and adding it every year.
The market price of the permits would be equivalent to paying a tax on CO2 emissions.
Argentina, by contrast, is a highly gas-dependent country with diminishing reserves - equivalent to less than eight years of production.
According to evolutionary psychologists, such displays of blatant benevolence are the human equivalent of the male peacock's tail.
Children are not biologically equivalent to begin with.
Fifteen years ago, the consensus was that America's Social Security System was in huge trouble, that it needed the equivalent of an engine rebuild.
Today its problems look, as the Brookings Institution economist Peter Orszag says, much more like the equivalent of a slow tire leak: you have to fix it eventually, but it isn't very hard to do and repair it isn't terribly urgent.
If Social Security is a slow tire leak, then the post-2020 General Fund is an urgent brake job, Medicare and Medicaid are a melted transmission, and the budget deficit is the equivalent of having just crashed into a tree.
One proposed solution is for these countries to engineer the equivalent of a devaluation - a uniform decrease in wages.
Experts estimate that, in terms of guarding against inflation, the euro's appreciation has been equivalent to about 35 basis points rise in the interest rate.
As the 9-11 terrorist attacks on the US brutally reminded us, a lethal threat need not come from equivalent military hardware.
This pattern reflects the Fed's own obsession with price stability, which encourages preemptive interest-rate increases to head off inflation, but restrains equivalent preemptive reductions to head off unemployment.
A more useful definition of cyber waris hostile action in cyberspace whose effects amplify or are equivalent to major physical violence.
A tax on carbon should be equivalent to its damage.
Back then, one Nigerian pound was equivalent to one British pound.
The exchange rate remained unchanged: one naira was equivalent to one British pound.
By the end of the decade, the US will have to pay an amount equivalent to more than one-third of the revenue from personal-income taxes just to pay the interest on the national debt.
That would be the functional equivalent of a tax hike on beleaguered American families - hardly the solution that US politicians are promising.
The Chinese also see the commercial equivalent of containment in the US-proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership, which includes Japan but excludes China.
When that bubble collapses, it will hit not just the weaker countries - the equivalent of sub-prime mortgages - but also stronger creditors.
Lifting subsistence farmers out of their precarious position would be equivalent to halving the number of hungry people.
In this sense, 2007-2009 is the capitalist equivalent of the communist demise of 1989-1991.
Run on a standard climate model, this would reduce temperatures so trivially - about 0.00002oC in the year 2100 - that it is the equivalent of postponing global warming by the end of the century by a bit more than seven hours.
For the former colonial countries, who have no equivalent to Obama, to support him fully is a sort of exorcism, if not redemption.
The government's closing of democratic and institutional spaces produces responses of a proportional and equivalent force, which in turn tends to expand the political conflict toward areas where force and violence prevail.
New vehicle emission standards meet the most stringent equivalent European standards, and are higher than in the United States.
The standard daily ration is 150-300 grams (5-10 ounces) of corn or rice (equivalent to roughly four slices of dry bread), depending on the location.
But, though Taiwanese politics is naturally dominated by the island's relationship with the mainland, the reality of deep commercial ties between China and Taiwan has had no diplomatic equivalent.