The editor of Novaya Gazeta, an opposition newspaper, published a letter accusing Alexander Bastrykin, head of the investigative committee (equivalent to America's FBI), of meeting his deputy editor, Sergei Sokolov, in a forest and threatening to kill him and then investigate the murder.
Our Institute's ethical committee is equivalent to the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC).
County Republican Committee, the Republican Party's nearest equivalent to Jim Farley.
But if that were the primary reason to see it, Mr. Panahi's unclassifiable intervention in the world's collective imaginative life would be equivalent to a committee-written letter to The New York Review of Books.
When he surrendered in 2004, he had been a Maoist for 14 years and had risen to the rank of district committee member, roughly the guerrilla equivalent to a major in the U.S. Army.
This may never be known definitively without the declassification of documents, sworn testimony by participants, and an investigation by something equivalent to the committee Senator Frank Church of Idaho chaired in 1975 and 1976.
Meanwhile, Deborah Orr sets out five reasons to vote Lib Dem, including the party's pledges to scrap fees for final year students, to prevent government from leaning on scientific advisory bodies (such as the drug advisory committee), and to pay a sum equivalent to Jobseekers' Allowance to young people who cannot get jobs but can find internships.
The home affairs committee said this figure was a size equivalent to the population of Newcastle upon Tyne.
But members of the committee say that such a recommendation is not equivalent to calling for mandatory vaccination.
"In another committee room, we were talking about giving tax breaks equivalent to 100 million cartons of milk over five years".
