Sentence examples for equivalent talent from inspiring English sources

If state and local governments are paying the same or less than the private sector for equivalent talent, what is the problem?

According to Luiz Fernando Sant'Anna, a São Paulo lawyer who specialises in football deals, a growing number are snapped up from youth teams and make their professional debuts outside Brazil.Brazilian players cost European clubs less than local footballers of equivalent talent.

Because the Blue Jays will receive two first-round picks if Halladay leaves as a free agent, they will probably demand more than the equivalent in talent to forfeit his final year and a half.

Every other team received proven commodities; the Magic got the basketball talent equivalent of "what's behind door No3".

Now that the Chums have gone out of business, falling victim along with the Fans to Arts Council cuts, there's an XX-shaped hole in the British dance scene, and it would be intriguing to see it filled by a female equivalent of the Talent.

In a January 1971 review for NME, Derek Johnson expressed surprise at Apple's delay in releasing the single in the UK, before declaring: "In my opinion, this record – finally and irrevocably – establishes George as a talent equivalent to either Lennon or McCartney".

Although his father left an estate of nearly fourteen talents, (equivalent to about 220 years of a laborer's income at standard wages, or 11 million dollars in terms of median US annual incomes) Demosthenes asserted his guardians had left nothing "except the house, and fourteen slaves and thirty silver minae" (30 minae = ½ talent).

The agency is well on the way to becoming the talent agency equivalent of a category-killer such as Microsoft".

Baseball's distribution of talent is roughly equivalent to that of hockey: the best teams win sixty per cent of the time and the worst teams win forty.

His lawyer argued that he was so ignorant of the endgame that during the operation he travelled to Los Angeles to take part in a Spanish-language equivalent of America's Got Talent.

We applauded, but also looked with envy, when the PM announced an additional £100m for sport in schools recently, because we knew that an equivalent sum to encourage new talent in the arts would yield extraordinary returns.