Hank Barry, the chief executive of Napster, said the one million file names that Napster would eliminate from its search engine did not constitute the equivalent of one million songs.
Of course, it might be argued that on the sexual scale of 1911, when the novel appeared, let alone that of the eighteen-eighties, when its catastrophe is supposed to have occurred, the few embraces and kisses that Ethan and Mattie do share in Wharton's lean text constitute the equivalent of contemporary copulation, as breathily demonstrated on the screen.
MID-tagged libraries were sequenced as part of a larger pooled sample with each of the four species constituting the equivalent of 2.5% of a full 454 plate.
All this constitutes the sports equivalent of runaway inflation, and it has made one of baseball fans' favorite activities -- comparing players across eras increasingly difficult.
Historically, the European concept of the Northeast Passage was of a channel that traversed the entire distance between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, constituting the Eurasian equivalent of the fabled Northwest Passage across Arctic North America.
Stretching from the snow-capped peaks of Kashmir to the ski slopes of Canada, mingling gunplay, spectacular explosions and chases with songs, dances and romance, this colorful Indian spy adventure constitutes the cinematic equivalent of the delightful and inconsequential escapism of a 700-page summer beach novel.
If disgust sensitivity and out-group fear are components of our evolved behavioral immune system, then this brand of cynical right-wing tribalism would appear to constitute the metaphoric equivalent of an auto-immune disease.
The concurrent actions of PARP-1 and poly(ADP-ribose) glycohydrolase constitute the functional equivalent of a nicotinamide adenine dinucleotidase.
Interestingly, DNGR-1 expression is also very restricted to DC in human PBMC as it is detected almost exclusively on lineage-negative BDCA-3+ cells 9, 17, 18, a subtype of DC proposed to constitute the functionally equivalent of the mouse CD8α+ DC population 19.
They constituted the beginning of the Soviet SPRN network, the equivalent of the NATO BMEWS.
