The throw appeared to be the equivalent of forcing a beach ball through a chain-link fence.
Or maybe it would be more the equivalent of forcing a New Yorker to live in rural Maine.
"The Wikileaks injunction is the equivalent of forcing The Times's printers to print blank pages and its power company to turn off press power," the site said, referring to the order that sought to disable the entire site.
Producers grab birds by their necks and stuff foot-long unlubricated feeding pipes down their throats, pumping in three pounds of grain and fat per day -- the equivalent of force-feeding 45 pounds of food to an adult human -- causing their livers to swell 6-10 times normal size.
In order to find an equivalent amount of force resembling the same pattern of stress in the PDL of class II, division II patients' teeth, different levels of retraction force (0.53, 0.56, 0.59, and 0.62 N) were loaded in the form of a trial and error experiment.
Here, N x, N y, N x y, N z, M x, M y, M x y, Q x, Q y, S x, S y, N x ∗, N y ∗, N x y ∗, M x ∗, M y ∗, M x y ∗, M z ∗, Q x ∗, Q y ∗, S x ∗, S y ∗ represent 'stress resultants', which are the 'stresses' defined in terms of equivalent forces (axial force, shear, or bending moment imposed) acting on the middle surface of plate.
Clinton: Globalization, "the economic equivalent of a force of nature".
But he quickly moved to his now-familiar arguments about the new age of mutual dependence, telling his audience that globalization "is the economic equivalent of a force of nature" and that it "is not going away".
He talked about the benefits of globalisation—"the economic equivalent of a force of nature, like wind or water"—and drew an explicit contrast between the rapid growth of countries that had embraced it and the economic failures of those that had not.
"We had winds of these strength — it was the equivalent of hurricane-force winds," said Kevin M. Burke, Con Ed's chairman and chief executive officer.
