Sentence examples for Equivalent from inspiring English sources

Chafee's candidacy seems targeted almost directly at Hillary Clinton and her foreign policy record – the Democratic equivalent of those conservative hawks who sought to enter the Republican primary solely to excoriate Rand Paul on the debate stage.

Should Macclesfield make it to the fourth round for only the second time in their history and get paired away from home in a televised match against one of the Premier League big boys, it would be the equivalent of a lottery win.

A successful sub-label in the Lauren empire, Polo peddles preppy classics to men but this was the first time the brand has created the equivalent wardrobe for its female customer.

Children make up a third of the fatalities – the equivalent of one child killed each hour over the previous two days.

The equivalent of one in every five dollars of revenues at Chevron was poured back into capital projects last year, totalling $37.1bn.

They have pumped new revenues equivalent to 0.6% of the GDP in Kenya alone.

Since when has a major equivalent museum (National Gallery, Louvre or Prado) had as its remit the requirement to be "fun" (Tate Britain needs to put the fun into art, 2 April)?

The BBC's 108 highest-paid bosses – including those on salaries of £150,000 or more – reduced the total amount of expenses they claimed in the first three quarters of this financial year by 14.1% compared with the equivalent period in 2009/10.

Rather than acting as a tool to unearth the fragility of the human psyche, the effect is the equivalent to Dirty Dancing if Johnny Castle was crippled by, say, Tourette syndrome.

But ITV can take some consolation from the fact that Strictly Come Dancing judges Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli have set a precedent and already appear as judges on both BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing and its American equivalent Dancing with the Stars, which airs on the US network ABC.

It mandates a 50% reduction in petroleum use by vehicles by 2030, the equivalent of removing 36m cars and trucks from the road.