Sentence examples for equates being from inspiring English sources

Lord Tebbit's proposal, which effectively equates being out of work with being a criminal, is both offensive and ludicrous," he said.

The historical resonance of black and Asian people being asked to prove their status when simply going about their everyday business is overwhelmingly negative and the assumption underpinning it equates being British with being white.

However, I deliberately chose not to touch on this death because regardless of the circumstances and the understandable grief of Duggan's family, focusing on this case would have neatly fed the lazily wicked and sadly too often unchallenged media narrative that equates being young and black with being criminal and dangerous.

We all know someone who equates being loud to being powerful.

It equates being slender with being successful, beautiful and, sadly, a good mother.

In an article written by Dave Zirin in the Nation called Michael Sam Gets Drafted and The NFL Has Issues, he wrote: "the NFL's homophobia is in an institution that equates being gay with being controversial or political not realizing that this is their problem, not Michael Sam's".

She equated being a professional cheerleader with being a "mini celebrity".

These claims meant little under Texas laws that virtually equated being black with being enslaved.

Ms. Allen equated being forced to work for less than city wages to slavery, and left the rolls.

Being an artist and being gay — well, I don't want to equate being gay with being poor, but what can we say?

There are Muslim countries in Africa, but it seems to be a common occurrence to equate being Muslim with being Arab.