Sentence examples for join the equivalent from inspiring English sources

Anybody who goes into college now and thinks, "I'm going to join the equivalent of what Bear Stearns was, and I'm going to get rich just by loaning other people's money and taking huge plunges, and if I'm wrong I don't lose anything"–well, that might've worked in the 1990s, but it's not going to work now, brother.

Iran calls them "volunteers," but they were promised residence permits, better jobs, and other perks if they joined the equivalent of a foreign legion and were threatened with deportation if they refused, according to Human Rights Watch.

But Anwar al-Aulaqi was living in Yemen where no U.S. troops were fighting, unlike in Afghanistan and Iraq, had joined the equivalent of a gang rather than an army, and was not involved in traditional combat.

One reader, Carl Bromwich told his story of moving from Yorkshire to Belarus to join the communist equivalent of the scouts.

Joining the wireless equivalent of a land rush, last month some of the biggest local TV station owners in the United States announced a joint venture to transmit their content to viewers on the go.

In My Salinger Year, Rakoff refers to her only as "my boss" and to her workplace only as "the agency", a calculated anonymity that adds to the reader's sense that its heroine has joined the literary equivalent of a religious cult.

Last month they joined with the equivalent body for GPs to warn that the detention of children and their families caused "significant" serious physical and psychological harm to children who are already among the most vulnerable members of the community – and who require special and humane treatment but are being accorded the exact opposite.

We invited 170 general practice teams in the Eastern Region of England, with a minimum of three full-time-equivalent doctors, to join the trial.

We finally apply the morphotactic rules from the baseline system to join the translated or transliterated parts and thus create the equivalent Basque term.

The two sides are divided over numerous issues, including health coverage, wages, job security and the union's demand that all new museum employees be required to join the union or, should they decide not to join, pay the equivalent of union dues.

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