"I used to equate one phrase with September, because I went to parochial school -- crisp air and uniforms," he said.
However, it became apparent that many participants equated this phrase with benign studies, such as survey research.
In the Roosevelt and McCain lexicon, the phrase equates to a moment of reckoning, when worthy men prove themselves.
This is a pretty natural response since the phrase "corporate asset" typically equates to dollar signs.
Furthermore, students commonly pick up on the use of the phrase 'survival of the fittest,' equating the idea of fitness in biology with the idea of fitness in its everyday use or, as Anderson et al. (2002) stated, they equate fitness with "strength, speed, intelligence, or longevity" (p. 964).
Dollars spent are equated to "hours of life energy," a phrase coined by Vicki Robin, the now 72-year-old co-author of the 1992 bestseller Your Money or Your Life who unwittingly became an idol of the FIRE movement.
It's pitiful that the phrase "middle-aged woman" is wrongly equated with being a moody, barren harridan, and not a woman possessing wisdom born of experience, without crippling age-related physical decrepitude.
It was not a hard battle: the ridiculousness of equating ignorance with freedom was derided long before the phrase "evidence-based medicine" was coined.
President Álvaro Uribe of Colombia, who seems to equate masculinity with an archaic code of honor, uttered the phrase, which translates as "Act like a man!" with studly connotations of challenge and defiance attached.
For individuals who do not equate the trait of attractiveness with the opposite sex, the current phrasing creates a forced arbitrary choice of rating the difficulty of talking to either attractive people, or people of the opposite sex.
Wade Henderson, the president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, noted the existence of phrases like "gay is the new black" and said that attempts to equate the persecution of gay and black Americans can be "deeply offensive".
