Sentence examples for equivalent to someone from inspiring English sources

Participants in Delhi recorded the highest average hearing loss – equivalent to someone 19.34 years older than them.

However, officers accepted that some of the intelligence was of a quality equivalent to someone hearing a conversation in a pub.

Strike action is looming – and quite rightly too, because the cuts are equivalent to someone losing £200,000 or even £300,000 over the course of their retirement.

The negation of A, ~A, is "it is not the case that everybody has a father," which is equivalent to "someone does not have a father"; this enables one to introduce such an individual by existential instantiation.

Mr Gordon's remark is equivalent to someone in the late 19th century arguing that automobiles wouldn't amount to much since one would still need to hook the vehicles up to horses.

As the next possible treatment-changing paradigm in hemophilia care, gene therapy may provide patients with sufficient hemostatic improvement to achieve the World Federation of Hemophilia's aspirational goal of "integration of opportunities in all aspects of life… equivalent to someone without a bleeding disorder".

The other way around, with the back of your hand facing the other person, is equivalent to giving someone the middle finger.

Rossio, 58, sparked anger after he claimed that calling someone who was against vaccinations "Anti-Vax" was the "equivalent to calling someone" a racial slur, spelling out the word in his tweet.

This was a remarkable total, equivalent to having someone twice as skilled as van Persie taking every shot.

During a debate about the franchise for the forthcoming EU referendum Mr Sheerman argued that lowering the voting age was equivalent to saying someone was an adult at 16. "Isn't what is missing out of this the responsibility we have as parliamentarians to care for young people who are very vulnerable?" he said.

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.