It was a disaster equivalent to what just happened.
It was the business equivalent of a disaster appeal, but concentrating on the long-term reconstruction of the country.
Mr. Préval embraced the need for decentralization and shifting government and private facilities away from the battered capital, Port-au-Prince, and also urged the creation of a team at the United Nations that would be the disaster equivalent of peacekeepers.
Point to McEnroe, though at the end of the day, it didn't improve the unenviable position he and his players find themselves in -- depending on Woodruff to avoid a Davis Cup disaster equivalent to losses at Paraguay in 1987 and Columbia in 1974.
Numerous attacks to oil pipelines during the last 35 years have resulted in 4.1m spilled barrels, the equivalent to 16 disasters like Exxon Valdez.
The Aliso Canyon well failure was widely seen as the climate equivalent of the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
The latter suffered a catastrophic fire in January, described by the head of the Academy of Sciences as the academic equivalent of the Chernobyl disaster.
President Vladimir V. Putin declared drug addiction the equivalent of a natural disaster, citing new figures showing Russia has 500,000 registered drug users, three-quarters of them under 30.
It was a potential disaster — the equivalent of the $400 haircut, Mr. Gibbs feared, coming just weeks before election day and on the heels of a vacation in Spain that had drawn accusations of lavish spending.
