However, I remain extremely uncomfortable with this notion that anti-semitic ranting can be conflated with routine regrettable drunken behaviour, when it's plainly not equivalent.
Plainly, there's no equivalent effort in the area of privately owned firearms.
Now that same-sex married couples are eligible for federal benefits under rules that don't apply to civil unions, New Jersey's insistence that civil unions are equivalent to marriage is plainly wrong.
Researchers must ensure that patients can actively engage in the research, and plainly see the clinical problem, with equivalent risks and benefits evident; trial balance is important whereby the risk-benefit profile of each intervention seems equivalent to the patient.
It's flamboyantly virtuosic, with its technical feats plainly in view, and the Academy has always favored the equivalent of the "1812 Overture" to the finely wrought Adagietto of Mahler's Fifth.
(On Forbes' argument, see Bricker (1988), Yablo (1988), and Mackie (2007).) And, while the denial of bare identities is not strictly equivalent to the denial of haecceitism, it is plainly a very small step from the former to the latter.
Garland is the judicial equivalent of oatmeal: good for everyone under the circumstances, a plainly unobjectionable staple, and -- at the risk of mixing my metaphors -- American as apple pie.
"Plainly the hostile tenor of this litigation gelled with Burstein's letter's reference to the legal equivalent of a 'proctology exam,' " the appeals panel wrote.
Ms. Allyson swings plainly, without frills, in a voice that's a little bit higher and lighter than that of her rock equivalent, Bonnie Raitt.
