Sentence examples for present-day equivalent from inspiring English sources

The ILGO's present-day equivalent, Irish Queers, continues to protest.

This has been corrected, to show that this was intended to be the present-day equivalent.

By the 1920s, the Osage were reaping the present-day equivalent of $400m a year in dividends.

Mr. Giuliani said inadequacies in education were the present-day equivalent of discrimination that blacks encountered in other fields in the 1960's and 1970's.

Today, Palestinians are lectured to drop BDS and return to empty talks that are the present-day equivalent of constructive engagement.

In the southern part of the state, the cultivation of sugarcane and vegetables around Lake Okeechobee has produced the present-day equivalent of plantation agriculture.

Present-day equivalents are pocket cameras taking easy-load film cartridges or film disks.

The McCarthy period wasn't as bad, because McCarthy didn't scare the "sane" Republicans as thoroughly as Beck (and Limbaugh etc) scare their puny present-day equivalents.

Might the present day equivalent for techno-economic paradigm change be more about the innovations necessary to rebuild or retrofit our existing technologies than about producing new growth sectors?

It's a different type of interaction, although social media is probably the closest present day equivalent.

From now on, it was explained, we are going to give you the present day equivalent of $16,000 CAD [$12,424 USD today].