Sentence examples for equivalent say from inspiring English sources

"What we want is a fictional town, a spiritual equivalent, say, to Twin Peaks.

No one's going to "mandate inefficient equipment," but, unless we're willing to do the equivalent — say, by mandating costlier energy — increased efficiency, as Jevons predicted, can only make our predicament worse.

A CLERK at a gift shop in Bushmills couldn't help remarking that Bob and I were sensible Americans — because we were in Northern Ireland instead of Iraq — but everywhere we went we were greeted warmly; even at Royal County Down, the most socially exclusive club in Northern Ireland and the equivalent, say, of Muirfield in Scotland, which is known for being a little stuffy to visitors.

"This is the equivalent," say the protesters, "of knocking down the Nissen huts at Bletchley Park because they ruin the view of the Victorian mansion in the grounds of which they were built, and showing what they used to look like on video monitors".

"The general consensus is that digital content should be free or at least cheaper than the physical equivalent," says YouGov.

"Every city has its Rodeo Drive equivalent," said Vince Ceccola, the president and founder of World Wide Webs Inc., which produced Rodeodrive.com and in turn spawned Famousstreets.com.com

They were originally intended to make up one big album: a modern equivalent, says Wire, of the Clash's sprawling Sandinista! or the Beatles White Albumm.

"If you could say my family came over on the Niña, the Pinta or the Santa Maria, this is the equivalent," said Mr. Curran, wearing a black Virgin Galactic T-shirt and an enthusiastic smile.

'Football is today's equivalent,' says Leonardo Guarnieri, an educational archaeologist at the Colosseum.

"An iPS cell and an ES cell are functionally equivalent," says Emile Nuwaysir, chief operations officer at Cellular Dynamics International (CDI).

"We get all these claims of leapfrogging, but really at the end of the year these systems will be about equivalent," says Trebnick.