Sentence examples for goods equivalent to from inspiring English sources

For example, in the 1830s an individual who wished to gain the spiritual benefit believed to accrue from viewing the contents of a Mandan sacred bundle (a group of sacred and ceremonial objects) was expected to pay the bundle's guardian cash, horses, or goods equivalent to about a year's wages for the typical manual labourer.

By this time, Charlie's local authority had taken out a court order and sent bailiffs to her home to recover goods equivalent to her council tax arrears.

The Fortune began its return to England laden with £500 worth of goods (equivalent to £ in 2010, or $ at PPP), more than enough to keep the colonists on schedule for repayment of their debt, however the Fortune was captured by the French before she could deliver her cargo to England, creating an even larger deficit for the colony.

But as perceived through the idealizing vision of Mr. Simon, squinting across the country at Manhattan from his home in California, the coffee shop is transformed into a hazy, feel-good equivalent to the bar in William Saroyan's "Time of Your Life".

Even if we agree that only pleasure is good, no amount of reflection will make us think "Pleasure is good" equivalent to "Pleasure is pleasure"; Ross took this line.

Basically, importing goods is equivalent to letting in the workers that produced these goods.

She also restricted imports, requiring firms to export goods equivalent in value to anything they imported.

New stoves pollute far less than open fires, but a recent report found that the limits for Ecodesign wood burners allow six times more particle pollution than the exhaust of a modern heavy goods vehicle, equivalent to 18 new diesel cars.

As a direct offshoot of welfare economics and ultimately of utilitarian moral theory, CEA is premised on the notion that justice in the distribution of health-related goods is equivalent to the maximization of benefits or, more colloquially put, to getting the most bang for the health care buck.

At the moorings on the Quai Gordon Bennett is Restaurant au Pistou, and it's a good place, equivalent to Calypso in Villefranche.

Applicants will have a Masters degree; where this is from a Palestinian university, it should be with a minimum grade of very good (and equivalent to at least a 3.0 Bachelor's Degree from UK). Applicants must sign a written undertaking to return to Palestinian university within a time frame agreed with their university, normally one year.