Sentence examples for held to be equivalent from inspiring English sources

The threat to commence those suits under such circumstances was therefore necessarily held to be equivalent to any other threatened wrong or injury to the property of a plaintiff which had theretofore been held sufficient to authorize the suit against the officer.

For although the indefinite 'A dodo ate my lunch' might be held to be equivalent to the particular proposition 'Some dodo ate my lunch', generic indefinites like 'A dodo is a bird', are quite different, and their semantics does not bear on the quantified sentences in the square of opposition.

The studia humanitatis were held to be the equivalent of the Greek paideia.

In that aspect no one would doubt that it would be a perfect defense that the defendant had previously paid the demand, or, what we have held to be legally equivalent, had tendered the amount in the coupons of the state, receivable in payment by an irrepealable contract, but which the appointed authorities of the state had wrongfully refused to receive.

Whether or not saints lie under its turf, the island's spiritual reputation was such that three pilgrimages there were held to be the equivalent of one to Rome.

Insults to him were traditionally held by Muslim jurists to be equivalent to disbelief - and disbelief was a crime that merited Hell.

Under the bill, banks with more than $500 billion in assets would have to hold capital that is equivalent to at least 15 percent of their assets.

I've always held MIT to be the equivalent of Ivy League standards and this course gives a valid and just assessment towards that end.

Most other banks, many of them still quite big, would get to hold capital that is equivalent to 8 percent of their assets.

In some logical settings (e.g., classical logic, in which a certain so-called deduction theorem holds), this is equivalent to the provability of a conditional, but in some settings, it is not.

Then there exists a number (M>0) such that for all (t>M) the inequality frac{f(t)}{|P_{r}(t)|}>frac{1}{delta} holds; this is equivalent to biglvert P_{r}(t bigrvert < delta f(t).