As is typical for authoritarian leaders, he had begun to equate his well-being with that of his country, and the sycophants around him reinforced the notion.
A10 Immigration and Local Police A growing number of law enforcement agencies say they have begun to equate immigration enforcement with protecting national security, and they want to be involved.
Medical progress in scores of areas-vaccine development, cancer treatment, genetics, and aids, among others-would stop if we began to equate the lives of rats with those of humans.
Now, in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, a growing number of law enforcement agencies around the country say that they have begun to equate immigration enforcement with protecting national security and that they want to be involved.
The longer I spent searching in the atlas, tracking down postal entrepôts, the more I began to equate stamp issuance in the 1920s with the causes of war or unrest 10 or even 50 years later.
At some point in the past few decades, popular perception began to equate liberalism with effete enablers while conservatism burst from the cultural periphery of the Goldwater era, powered by mainstream images of Ronald Reagan, John Wayne and all-American testosterone, equal parts responsibility, fortitude and discipline.
When a leader begins to equate disagreement with disloyalty, or worse -- the undermining of their authority -- there's no one left to raise the warning flags.
During the 1930s and 1940s travel journalists, especially Ann Hark who wrote a number of books about the Dutch, began to equate Pennsylvania Dutch with Amish both for socio-economic and political reasons.
