Sentence examples for equivalent to giving from inspiring English sources

(He was not aware, I presume, that the meaning of this gesture in Iran is roughly equivalent to giving the finger in the West).

So this was equivalent to giving — not lending, not even taking an equity stake — Spain 25 percent of its GDP to bail out its banks.

Wouldn't that be the equivalent to giving your money to sue us?" The heads of the Big Three evaded the question — they politely said they'd prefer one national standard — and Congressional leaders let the matter drop.

It is now clear that giving to a candidate's PAC is equivalent to giving to his campaign; the leaders of the PAC, for all practical purposes, are the campaign's bag men.

Megan McArdle writes about the death of a D.C. tavern: "Punishing a restaurant owner for a liquor license violation with an open-ended maybe-we'll-give-you-a-license-maybe-we-won't delay is equivalent to giving someone the death penalty for a parking violation.

"Since bondholders have historically got a 2 percent real return on government bonds and are getting virtually none now, that's equivalent to giving them a 2 percent haircut a year, and it will go on for a long time," he said.

It is equivalent to give a groupoid over a basis X or an equivalence relation on X together with one group for each equivalence class.

In many situations in a FEM analysis the external loads are concentrated forces equivalent to given distributed pressure fields.

end{aligned} (1.1 It is equivalent to give Cartan matrix or to give a Dynkin diagram, cf. [58].

The lack of a simple equivalent to give the daily humidity has perhaps made long term records more difficult to assemble.

Given similar mortality rates for untreated snakebites, "that's equivalent to not giving any anti-venom at all," said Harrison, the venom researcher from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.