The plaintiffs had sought compensation for lost hunting and fishing grounds, asking for the equivalent of $37.8 million.
For now, fans are responding to appeals for money -- last month, Notts County asked for the equivalent of $7,500 and received $220,000.
In the late 1970's, President Carter explored the possibility of opening diplomatic relations, but he gave up when Vietnam asked for the equivalent of war reparations.
Every few miles we were stopped by sheepish police officers who alleged some imagined offense and then asked for the equivalent of 50 cents to overlook it.
A Bali-based former lawyer for Chan and Sukumaran has claimed that Denpasar district court judges overseeing the case in 2005 asked for the equivalent of $130,000£85,00000) in exchange for 20-year prison sentences.
But things change when somebody decides to put a nonessential item on the market: the person looks at an object, creates an imaginary value for what it is worth and asks for the equivalent of that fabricated value in currency.
Essentially, I'd been asking for the equivalent of a black coffee with milk.
And sometimes to ask for the appearance or an equivalent in real space, like with the Submit Button, is a good start.
The problem may have been that Mr. Decker was asking for the operatic equivalent of Method acting from his cast, and that the singers were too absorbed in their performances to pay close attention to the conductor.
The kidnappers who snatched Mike Ozekhome, a human-rights lawyer, in August initially asked for the Nigerian equivalent of $915,000; as The Economist went to press, he and the archbishop were still being held.
He added that the government was asking for "the software equivalent of cancer" and that he planned to talk to President Barack Obama directly about getting the dispute "on a better path".
