Sentence examples for the equivalent of admitting from inspiring English sources

It is seen as the equivalent of admitting they are mediocre or not up to the job".

Finally, 35 years after those historic six days, the Arab world did the equivalent of admitting defeat.

This is because the use or possession of marijuana is illegal under U.S. federal law and admitting to smoking marijuana in the past is therefore the equivalent of admitting to violating the federal law.

In other words, the GOP can't be making the decision not to do a budget — basically the equivalent of admitting that Congress and the White House aren't going to accomplish much of anything significant this year — without a great deal of thought.

This is the energy policy equivalent of admitting to an experiment with marijuana but not inhaling.

Their relationship last reached a public crisis point in June 1995, when Grant was fined the equivalent of £75 after admitting engaging in a sex act with the Los Angeles prostitute Divine Brown after picking her up on Sunset Boulevard.

Results from a YouGov survey conducted for Shelter found the equivalent of 835,000 households admit to being in arrears with their rent or mortgage, compared with 405,000 last October.

Opponents contend that the PC rooms are the equivalent of movie theaters that admit schoolchildren to R-rated movies on an unlimited and unchecked basis.

There is always a little more lift in Bill Belichick's monotone after a victory over the Jets, and on Sunday night, he was the Belichickian equivalent of giddy, admitting that his defense, ranked worst in the league, had improved.

In something close to the equivalent of Bill Clinton's PR dodge of admitting to a puff of a marijuana cigarette but not inhaling, Beckham has embraced the toasting-before-you-drink angle.

It is the simple equivalent of doctors admitting that they can't cure cholera with medicine alone: somebody has to find the source of the diseased water and clean it.