When I asked U.N. workers why all these concepts remain drawings on a shelf, instead of real improvements in refugee lives, the general response I got equated to: "Uh-huh, sounds nice.
"There is far more division of opinion and lively debate in Israel on these very questions than here in the U.S., where support for Israel gets equated with a much narrower view, which is to say support for the current rightist government," said Paul R. Pillar, a professor at Georgetown University and former intelligence analyst specializing in the Middle East.
Largely, this weeding out of the long-term unemployed is occurring because of some sort of blanket heuristic being applied to pools of job applicants, in which "long-term unemployed" is getting equated with "weakest candidate".
"And why not take symbols from human love, when they're the nearest we've got to equate?
Data from small college research projects in particular tends to get misused to equate a controlled data set with a general result.
Society mostly adheres to a decline ideology that equates getting older with getting worse, usually from a health, and often from a financial, standpoint.
In the oil business, hard-to-get equates to costly.
In referring to vision and haptics, he concluded (1962, p. 489) by saying "the equivalence of the two modes of perception for judgments of the object is such that differences got by one sense are equated to differences got by the other".
Getting a recalcitrant husband to go in for a checkup, Dr. Wilson suggests, may be easier if it is "equated with getting a tune-up for his car, something he will do without a second thought".
