"There was a time when, according to local belief, if you visited the mosque in Demak seven times that was equivalent to making the long trip to Mecca".
The Ascent At 13, Montsho moved on to a local school that was equivalent to the lower levels of high school in the United States.
These curves in turn directed him in the middle 1630s to an algorithm, or rule of mathematical procedure, that was equivalent to differentiation.
But wording added today by Republican lawmakers to President Bush's proposed Pentagon budget specified that the Navy must find a single site that was "equivalent or superior" to Vieques.
It found that patients given "extreme placebo" – basically, they were listened to at length, and fully consulted about their symptoms, feelings and treatments – reported an improvement that was equivalent to that achieved by drugs commonly used to treat IBS.
A study earlier this year showed India, where more than 300 million people live in dire poverty, had 50 billionaires who together controlled wealth that was equivalent to 20% of gross domestic product and, reportedly, 80% of stock market capitalisation.
At that level of current I had to be careful about what wires and connectors I was using- and find a 5V power supply that was equivalent to a dozen or so mobile phone chargers.
So, if a big American bank had to have regulatory capital that was equivalent to 7 percent of its assets, so would the operations of a large foreign bank.
In 1972, however, John Clauser carried out an experiment that was equivalent to the EPR thought experiment and that vindicated the quantum-mechanical result; that is, the world could not be both "real" and "local".
The best-performing one, Westwing, based in Germany and selling home furnishings, made a loss (before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) that was equivalent to 35% of revenues last year.
For a top-bracket taxpayer, that was equivalent to as much as 12% on a corporate bond.
