Sentence examples for equivalent to telling from inspiring English sources

But when applied to patients with Alzheimer's, it is equivalent to telling a patient with paraplegia: "Skip walking.

This is equivalent to telling a kid he was wrong for shouting a pithy insult at the bully who just bloodied his nose and stole his bike.

I am pretty sure that U.S.-Iran relations are not the equivalent to telling your dumbass kid to drink his milk or he's grounded.

What Smith is doing, Kopser said, is "equivalent to telling somebody who's in a flood, 'Oh no no, all this water is going to be great.

Screenwriter Michael Goldenberg described his task to cut down the novel as searching for "the best equivalent way to tell the story.

What about having to call up an operator at BT — the U.K.'s equivalent of Time Warner — to tell him that you're having trouble logging on to "Girls Gone Wild"?

"It may be that [2016] could just be equivalent to 2015," Caldas told The Huffington Post.

It's the home-furnishings equivalent of GM trying to tell us that an over-the-hill brand is "not your father's Oldsmobile".

As of this minute, there's no breathalyzer equivalent police can use to tell how high a driver might be.

She writes: "Maybe every American fan believes we have no story to tell — no equivalent history.

Too confused, and too impotent, to align its points with reality, they need the psychogenic equivalent of a GPS device to tell them what road to take out of inertia.