Sentence examples for equivalent of removing from inspiring English sources
The removal of a top predator from any ecosystem is the equivalent of removing an essential structural component from an airplane.
Removal of lead from gasoline can be considered the environmental health equivalent of removing the handle from London's Broad Street Pump, whose contaminated water was the source of the 1854 cholera epidemic in London.
That net difference of 4,300 tonnes is the equivalent of removing 900 cars from the city for a year.
They might see it, he has said, as the equivalent of removing the crown jewels from a hated monarch.
The greenhouse gases captured by the project are "the equivalent of removing 21,002 cars from North Carolina roads," he said.
His consultant tells him that the operation is "the surgical equivalent of removing a shelled, soft-boiled egg from an eggcup".
In fact, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency reports that recycling clothing has an equivalent impact of removing one million cars from the nation's roads.
It estimates having saved nearly 600,000 tonnes of CO2 (equivalent to removing nearly 127,000 cars from the roads) by helping families switch from fossil fuels to clean technologies.
"To meet the targets under Kyoto for 2012 would be the equivalent of either removing every car, truck, ATV, tractor, ambulance, police car and vehicle of every kind from Canadian roads or closing down the entire farming and agriculture sector and cutting heat to every home, office, hospital, factory and building in Canada," Kent said.
The emissions-free power it generates every year represents an annual abatement of carbon dioxide emissions equivalent to removing more than 25,000 cars from the road.
