Western consumers will probably divert a fair chunk of their savings on petrol into spending on other goods.Add in the effect of low interest rates and the fiscal packages and the economies are getting the equivalent of electric shock therapy.
"Call the fashion police!" When Lindsay Lohan's controversial appointment as artistic adviser of the French label was announced last month, Mounir Moufarrige, the new chief executive of Ungaro, said his intention was to give the aging brand the equivalent of "electric shock treatment".
The energy efficiency, based on the lower heating values, is defined as the energy output in the products (ethanol, pellets, biogas, electricity and district heat) divided by the energy input comprising raw material, molasses, enzymes and the fuel equivalent of the electric power requirement, which was calculated using an electricity-to-fuel ratio of 0.4.
Plentiful, healthy, and virtuous, kelp is the culinary equivalent of an electric car.
It's like a high-school class from which hardly anyone graduates, or a women's-prison movie, where, occasionally, someone is paroled or, more and more in these sad times, gets the equivalent of the electric chair, career-wise.
A BIG but digestible mistake by a financial institution with abundant profits and capital should normally be viewed as the market equivalent of an electric shock, a jolt that leads to smarter behaviour.
The cabin, and the woods around them, have also undergone substantial renovations: the shack is a parody of the vacation homes of the day, and the neighborhood, far from a pristine wilderness, is Concord's main wood supply, the mid-19th-century equivalent of "an electric power plant or a gas station," where "the sound of axes chopping was ubiquitous".
Then, as soon as the fun started it would stop, as up in the stands the coach, Philippe Saint-André, looking ever more like Rod Steiger playing Napoleon, wielded the sporting equivalent of an electric cattle prod and they went back to hoofing the ball listlessly down the field and concentrating so hard on not giving away penalties that Nicolas Mas went cross-eyed.
This paper presents an investigation into the real-time control of an air motor incorporated with a pneumatic equivalent of the electric H-bridge.
(28) More recently, Blanford et al. used aryl diazonium coupling to attach anthracene-2-diazonium on a glassy carbon electrode surface to create the equivalent of an "electric plug" to achieve high DET currents with Pycnoporus cinnabarinus laccase.
Vidor put in the cinematic equivalent, 1949-style, of electric guitars.
