Sentence examples for equal to itself from inspiring English sources

As he puts it in "The Power of Taste": Herbert is sometimes described as a poet of precision and reserve — as if he were interchangeable with the subject of his much-quoted poem "Pebble": "The pebble / is a perfect creature / equal to itself / mindful of its limits... its ardor and coldness / are just and full of dignity".

This leads to the concepts: producing a distance by an amount equal to itself; dividing a distance into equal parts; expressing a distance in terms of a number by means of a measuring-rod (definition of the space-interval between two points).

Socrates sketches the character of the decent and good person this way: "the prudent and quiet character, which is always nearly equal to itself, is neither easily imitated nor, when imitated, easily understood, especially by a festive assembly where all sorts of human beings are gathered in a theater.

The Boolean type has been subject of criticism, particularly because of the mandated behavior of the UNKNOWN literal, which is never equal to itself because of the identification with NULL.

Any number times 1 is equal to itself.

This is the easiest example one can calculate using K-12 (British A-level Maths) or equivalent knowledge of calculus, since inside the integral f ( t ) is equal to one for part and equal to zero for other parts and you should calculate integral of an exponential which is equal to itself regardless of a coefficient.

RILs homozygous for Ki14 alleles at all three loci had a mean score of about two, equal to Ki14 itself.

On the other hand, dialectic cancels out chance and affirms the movement of the negative as a working out of identity, as in the Science of Logic where being in its immediacy is posited as equal only to itself (Hegel 1812, 82).

The S3 is also interesting: Samsung really, really wants to be the alternative or equal to Apple – distinguishing itself from Android rivals through not just high-class hardware, but also through software and services.

Calling the book "a masterwork by one of our finest writers working at the top of his form," Mr. Dubus writes: On a purely plot-hungry basis, turning the page seems the only thing to do, but — as is so often the case with the fiction of Richard Ford — what actually happens in the story feels secondary, or at best equal, to the language itself.

On a purely plot-hungry basis, turning the page seems the only thing to do, but — as is so often the case with the fiction of Richard Ford — what actually happens in the story feels secondary, or at best equal, to the language itself.