Sentence examples for supposed to be equivalent from inspiring English sources

The cartridges, which are supposed to be equivalent to 12 fags, run out at alarming speed.

It is supposed to be the equivalent of three hours' sleep.

Peter Young, the former head of mental health services for the health provider International Health and Medical Services, said Save the Children was supposed to be the equivalent of a child protection agency but had to do that "without any sort of legislative framework at all and without any sort of capacity for the Nauruans to investigate".

McConnell's first email to the AG's office noted that "Tom" took the Wonderlic Scholastic Level Exam and scored a 4. "This is supposed to be the equivalent of a fourth grade education," she wrote.

Landing the cover is supposed to be the equivalent of winning the Super Bowl of the modeling world (or something like that), credited with launching, or at least elevating, the careers of some of modeling's most famous and enduring names, among them Christie Brinkley and Tyra Banks.

Contrast that with credit markets, where there is no liquidity in some securities — notably auction-rate securities — that were supposed to be cash equivalents.

Reading Holden's story is supposed to be the literary equivalent of looking in a mirror for the first time.

Mr. Lindsey's National Economic Council, which was supposed to be the economic equivalent of the National Security Council, "had shrunk to irrelevance," a senior Treasury official said.

THE long-awaited Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission report, finally published on Thursday, was supposed to be the economic equivalent of the 9/11 commission report.

But take a loss on an investment that was supposed to be a cash equivalent?

He was lured into playing Eric Slatt because the character was supposed to be the classroom equivalent of Basil Fawlty.