Sentence examples for equivalent of hiring from inspiring English sources

"This is the advertising equivalent of hiring Max Clifford," pronounced ScythianNick.

It was Def Jam who appointed Jay-Z CEO in 2004, arguably the musical equivalent of hiring a poacher to mind your grouse.

Incurring the wrath of the country's most popular actor, for good reason, was the equivalent of hiring a plane to drag a banner of disreputability over its beachhead.

In Michigan this is the equivalent of hiring more than one in four non-college-bound high-school graduates every year.Predicting the impact of this demographic shock throughout the mid-west is tricky.

But he quickly shed unprofitable, mostly domestic routes, increased service on profitable ones and cut the labour force.He also started to use wet leasing (the industry's equivalent of hiring temporary workers and aircraft along with them).

BRINGING in Luqman Arnold as chief executive of Abbey National last year was the banking equivalent of hiring the coach of a glamorous foreign football team to run, say, Queens Park Rangers.

But they differ from America's equivalent, says Mr Braml.The habit of hiring former (and future) government officials, churning out timely policy briefs with actionable advice, and catering to the media the standard American approach is still foreign to the world of German think-tanks.

This large and fast-growing slice of the services market is the corporate equivalent of rich people hiring maids and chefs to do their cleaning and cooking.

As campaigners have quipped, it's the equivalent of a bookshop hiring someone to follow you round the shop noting every book you pick up, then sitting at home with you while you read what you bought.

Along the same lines, there was an ancient world equivalent of the hire-an-assistant-of-whom-your-spouse-can't-be-jealous wisdom.

It's the equivalent of having the National Football League hire referees instead of asking the teams to provide them.