Even more oddly, when a country pays its quota it is not spending any real money, since it gets back an equivalent claim on the Fund.
Logically equivalent claims have the same rank.
N.B., the rationalist is not committed to the idea that a 2D semantic framework accounts for all aspects of meaning: in particular, further aspects of meaning may be required to account for differences in content between apriori equivalent claims.
There is nobody else in the Democratic Party with an equivalent claim -- the only one with even a hope of making such a claim is Joe Biden, in fact.
The self-reported data were compared to equivalent claims data from the national insurer, over the same period.
This is not equivalent to claiming that a body moving rectilinearly will continue to do so unless another body impacts upon it.
Other Sautrāntikas, such as Vasumitra, content that in effect a subtle form of consciousness continues even after the attainment of cessation, for to assume otherwise would be equivalent to claiming that life can continue without consciousness (an untenable position for the Buddhist).
It's the easiest way to declare diversity, as well as the casting equivalent of claiming you have a black friend.
What we are interested in is political conflict and controversy - consider the U.S. midterm elections and the wall-to-wall coverage about the rage in the New York governor's race or about whether a brush with Satanism is this year's equivalent of claiming not to have inhaled.
Many of the promises were, as a friend said, the bare minimum of human decency, the equivalent of claiming, in a job interview, that, if hired, you will wear pants to work and reserve tardiness for Tuesday through Friday, when you are hungover.
