Sentence examples for a rough equivalent of from inspiring English sources

Gen. Anatoly Kvashnin, the chief of Russia's general staff, a rough equivalent of the Pentagon's chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, topped the list of those dismissed.

A rough equivalent of I. F. Stone's Weekly, The Bell analyzed political developments in Russia, exposed crimes and abuses and put the fear of God into czarist functionaries high and low.

This week, Sobchak was summoned by the Investigative Committee, a rough equivalent of the F.B.I. "I came to be interrogated," Sobchak said in an interview with Rain, a liberal cable TV network.

That Nightline saw fit to give him air time – the show is a rough equivalent of Newsnight – was further evidence either that the mainstream is more ready to accept adult entertainment performers on its turf, or that adult entertainment is itself becoming more mainstream.

In an interview published today, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder said, "I would have nothing against the idea of introducing regular questioning" of foreigners seeking to become naturalized German citizens by the Agency for the Protection of the Constitution, a rough equivalent of the F.B.I.

In New York, they had long acted as a rough equivalent of the Medici family, donating the money to buy the land for the United Nations headquarters, working with Moses to build Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and creating Rockefeller Center, the city's first mega-office complex.

That's a rough equivalent on the stupidity scale of what Bush achieved by consigning Iran's theocracy to the axis of evil and failing to probe how the country might have helped in two wars and the wider Middle East when the conciliatory Mohammad Khatami was president.

My commute is less a shift in narrative than a breach, the rough equivalent of a David Foster Wallace endnote: aesthetically jarring, physically inconvenient, and essential.

Soldiers like Sepoy Aziz — a sepoy is the rough equivalent of a private — are killed and wounded almost daily.

But at its worst, I don't recall any respectable figures on the progressive side suggesting Bush was a fascist, the rough equivalent of Obama's alleged socialism.

French Guiana – despite being a French département, the rough equivalent of an American county – is marooned on South America's northern shore, and suffers accordingly from low name recognition.