Sentence examples for talents equivalent from inspiring English sources

Although his father left an estate of nearly fourteen talents, (equivalent to about 220 years of a laborer's income at standard wages, or 11 million dollars in terms of median US annual incomes) Demosthenes asserted his guardians had left nothing "except the house, and fourteen slaves and thirty silver minae" (30 minae = ½ talent).

Every other team received proven commodities; the Magic got the basketball talent equivalent of "what's behind door No3".

In a January 1971 review for NME, Derek Johnson expressed surprise at Apple's delay in releasing the single in the UK, before declaring: "In my opinion, this record – finally and irrevocably – establishes George as a talent equivalent to either Lennon or McCartney".

The agency is well on the way to becoming the talent agency equivalent of a category-killer such as Microsoft".

Baseball's distribution of talent is roughly equivalent to that of hockey: the best teams win sixty per cent of the time and the worst teams win forty.

If state and local governments are paying the same or less than the private sector for equivalent talent, what is the problem?

According to Luiz Fernando Sant'Anna, a São Paulo lawyer who specialises in football deals, a growing number are snapped up from youth teams and make their professional debuts outside Brazil.Brazilian players cost European clubs less than local footballers of equivalent talent.

Without a plan in place, a company must resort to a harried talent search, the boardroom equivalent of Eisner's sickbed pronunciamento.

Because the Blue Jays will receive two first-round picks if Halladay leaves as a free agent, they will probably demand more than the equivalent in talent to forfeit his final year and a half.

That perhaps the most gifted player in the game's history illegally buttressed his talents seemed inconceivable, the sporting equivalent of Tolstoy plagiarizing, Einstein stealing patents.

Its featured headliner came across as an expansive talent with the jazz world equivalent of commitment issues.