Sentence examples for equivalent of doing from inspiring English sources

I think this is the hip-hop equivalent of doing judo.

"So London was really the equivalent of doing something out of town.

"I am officially the only person on planet Earth who can legitimately say 'I am the new James Bond'… even saying that name is the cinematic equivalent of doing the 'to be or not to be' speech".

But the idea that, in our country's political imagination, asking Congress to do its job is seen as the equivalent of doing nothing is damning — above all, of Congress.

The commission accused the marketers of falsely asserting that using the device for three minutes was the equivalent of doing 100 situps and that users would lose 10 pounds in two weeks.

"London was really the equivalent of doing something out of town," Gelb said, implying that the E.N.O. is to the Met as smaller theatres are to Broadway — places where new work is tried out before it is ready for the big time.

Mr. Carpenter asked Mr. Rodriguez the film festival equivalent of "Did you inhale?": How much did "El Mariachi" really cost?

Trump has adopted the political equivalent of don't-enter-my-room rhetoric: the discourse of sovereignty.

By Masha Gessen October 16, 2017 Donald Trump has adopted the political equivalent of don't-enter-my-room rhetoric: the discourse of sovereignty.

IT sounded like a crank call, the business equivalent of "Do you have Prince Albert in a can?": Hello, Warren Buffett wants to talk to your boss.

In its depiction of life in and around a monastery in Algeria, "Of Gods and Men" is, loosely, the French equivalent of "Do the Right Thing," if "Do the Right Thing" were filmed by an Italian-American guy from the perspective of daily life inside the pizzeria.