Sentence examples for term comparable to from inspiring English sources

In British English slang, Hooray Henry or Hoorah Henry (plural: Hoorah/Hooray Henrys/Henries) is a pejorative term, comparable to "toff", for an upper class British male who exudes loud-mouthed arrogance and an air of superiority, often flaunting his public school upbringing.

Finally, this study avoids identifying predicted target genes whose expression patterns are opposite to those of the miRNAs, but rather depends on their ability to classify the tumor subtypes of interest, especially when no such collection of datasets for miRNA expression available in short term comparable to the size of mRNA expression cohorts used in this study.

Together, these aspects of his education enabled him to describe the work of artists in terms comparable to the more intellectual employment of humanist scholars.

Sadly, McMaster failed to reckon with the recession, the deficit and a consequent pressure to justify arts spending in terms comparable to those used to defend threatened social and educational services.

But the Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission forced Comcast to make the full suite of NBC Universal content available as a single package to online competitors on terms comparable to those reached with more established rivals, like Dish Network and DirecTV.

No mortgage shall be insured under this subchapter unless it is shown to the satisfaction of the Secretary that the applicant would be unable to obtain the mortgage loan without such insurance on terms comparable to those specified in subsection (c).

The union is seeking terms comparable to those achieved by the teachers' union two years ago: no raise in the first two years of the new contract (for the principals, that would be 1996 and 1997, retroactively) and a cumulative raise of 11percentt over the next three years.

Commenting on these algorithms, Liu Hui suggested that one could continue computing the nonintegral portion of a root in the same way, setting 10 as denominator for the first subsequent digit, 100 as denominator for the first two digits, and so on; he thus gave the root in terms comparable to decimal fractions.

According to their site, the groups demand the hotel company improve working conditions and reduce physical strain for housekeepers, agree to the workers' request to remain neutral when nonunion workers try to organize and "settle expired collective bargaining agreements with worker representatives on terms comparable to other major hotel chains".

The frozen-in condition of the thermal ions is violated, the Hall term (Lorentz force term) is comparable to the electric field.

This makes the Dutch term exactly comparable to the term that has been used in Germany since 2004.