Sentence examples for accept the equivalent from inspiring English sources

For GTE shareholders to accept the equivalent of less than $55 a share for their stock means valuations of other companies in the business, especially the regional bell operating companies, will almost certainly be ratcheted down.

The mayor, Mauricio Guzman, is under investigation, suspected of accepting the equivalent of $170,000 from Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela.

Workers in Spain, Ireland, Germany and the UK have accepted the equivalent of zero-hour contracts that come with low pay and few benefits.

But late last week the couple agreed to move, accepting the equivalent of about $42,000 and a plot of ground for a new house, Xinhua said.

It will be broadcast locally on Channel 13 next Sunday at 3 30 P.M. Referring to the 40,000 deaths and 3.5 million injuries a year caused by automobile accidents, Ms. Newman said, "Our society accepts the equivalent of a Valujet crash every single day". "Staying Alive" reports that car accidents are the leading cause of death for people 1 to 21 years old.

Mr. Landowsky was forced to resign late last year after admitting that he accepted the equivalent of about $20,000 in secret political contributions from two real estate developers who have now defaulted on loans totaling over $300 million, the bank's biggest single loss.

The deal fell apart in 2002, when America confronted North Korea with evidence of its cheating: a parallel effort to produce enriched uranium, another possible bomb ingredient.At six-party talks in February, North Korea accepted the equivalent of 1m tonnes of heavy fuel-oil (some of it in other forms of energy assistance) for disabling Yongbyon.

Dr. Kiew had traveled to the United States to speak on the fate of South Asia's endangered tropical forests and also to accept the botanic equivalent of the Nobel Prize: the David Fairchild Medal for Plant Exploration from the National Tropical Botanical Gardens, an American group dedicated to plant preservation and discovery.

We believed in the words of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, that "the will of the people shall be the basis of authority of the government", and for us to accept the banning was equivalent to accepting the silencing of the Africans for all time.

We believed in the words of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, that "the will of the people shall be the basis of authority of the Government", and for us to accept the banning was equivalent to accepting the silencing of the Africans for all time.

There was, however, an interesting caveat: if an original, non-modified product was made to seem less natural or more processed to begin with, people became far more likely to trust and accept the genetically modified equivalent.