Sentence examples for equivalent of ordering from inspiring English sources

This was the equivalent of ordering Engels to check up whether Marx's Communist Manifesto was a practical programme.

Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA A more cultural equivalent of ordering a Full English in Faliraki, the Gilbert and George retrospective at San Francisco's de Young is a British fix for those far from home.

When Congress demands that Detroit make smaller, lighter, better mileage vehicles, but then refuses to put a higher price on carbon — like with a gasoline tax — so more consumers will want to buy these smaller cars, said Lutz, it is the equivalent of ordering all American shirtmakers to make only size smalls while never asking the American people to go on a diet.

The equivalent of ordering a diet Coke with your super-sized fast food meal.

"Thinking of investigating Minecraft for being violent," he said, "is the equivalent of ordering an investigation into violent LEGO playing".

Releasing a remix of "Know Yourself" this soon after it was released is the musical equivalent of ordering dinner at Morimoto and having it come out right away.

Even more broadly, the controversy in the final report involves the precise nature of Mrs. Clinton's role in the White House and whether her expressions of concern were just that, or the virtual equivalent of orders to subordinates.

In essence, Mrs. Clinton said she had expressed legitimate concerns about how the office was run and had not intended for her comments to be taken as the equivalent of orders to fire the travel office employees.

In 1993 she received New Zealand's greatest honour, the Order of New Zealand, joining Prince Philip in the equivalent of the Order of Merit.

Our model suggests that ion irradiation increases the fictive temperature of our glass by tens of degrees – the equivalent of many orders of magnitude change in cooling rate.

However, having a way for developers to take the app equivalent of pre-orders for upcoming releases would be a major upgrade to the App Store, and could help to combat some of the discovery issues developers face today where they effectively have to wait to advertise and market apps until after launch.