Sentence examples for equivalent of action from inspiring English sources

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There would have been a real hunger in the audience for them, a bit like the Elizabethan equivalent of action films.

The ominously beautiful title song by Tindersticks establishes a tone of solemn lyricism, and the film's orgiastic bloodbaths are photographed to suggest the art-film equivalent of action paintings, the blood splattered on the screen with a heroic abandon.

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The two models described in the previous section gives rise to equivalent waves of action potential under the same conditions.

Similar to clinical reports, human myobundles showed higher sensitivity to cerivastatin than lovastatin (Shitara and Sugiyama, 2006) and at excessive statin concentrations displayed progressive weakness and lipid accumulation, suggestive of equivalent mechanisms of action in vitro and in vivo.

"They also broadcast state policies that allow minority students to attend competitive colleges with a lower exam score, the Chinese equivalent of affirmation action," he continued.

The literary equivalent of the action figures in fast food restaurants, books like "15 Minutes" (based on the film starring Robert De Niro) and "The Mexican" (from the Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt vehicle) are just additional links in the movie-marketing chain.

Hugo's tale of Esmeralda, a Gypsy girl pursued by the evil priest Frollo, betrayed by Captain Phoebus (the man she loves) and adored by Quasimodo, the hunchback and bell ringer of Notre Dame cathedral, is Romantic ballet's equivalent of an action movie.

But a law passed in 2007 that was intended to keep campaigning orderly and clean — it bans the Mexican equivalent of political action committees, limits spending, regulates language in advertisements and tightens the official campaign period to just 89 days — has been undercut by the unpredictable and uncontrollable Web.

But as an ambitious young Indian with scant personal means, he had another dream: to go to the U.S., where he felt his talents would be developed more fully than they could ever have been in India, where, among other barriers, his high-caste Brahmin ancestry would be a hindrance under India's equivalent of affirmative action laws.

Borrowing the famous quote from Albert Einstein, I would refer to this as the investment equivalent of Spooky Action at a Distance.

With negative messaging, candidates jockeying for endorsements, advertising campaigns and even the equivalent of political action committees, our own election began to take on many elements that we least admire about electoral politics.

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