Sentence examples for the equivalent of ordering from inspiring English sources

This was the equivalent of ordering Engels to check up whether Marx's Communist Manifesto was a practical programme.

When Congress demands that Detroit make smaller, lighter, better mileage vehicles, but then refuses to put a higher price on carbon — like with a gasoline tax — so more consumers will want to buy these smaller cars, said Lutz, it is the equivalent of ordering all American shirtmakers to make only size smalls while never asking the American people to go on a diet.

"Thinking of investigating Minecraft for being violent," he said, "is the equivalent of ordering an investigation into violent LEGO playing".

In essence, Mrs. Clinton said she had expressed legitimate concerns about how the office was run and had not intended for her comments to be taken as the equivalent of orders to fire the travel office employees.

Purchasing a ticket to Scary Movie 5 is the movie equivalent of ordering the No. 2 Extra Value Meal at McDonald's: When even a Big Mac seems too lavish, you instead order two sad, instantly forgettable cheeseburgers.

Releasing a remix of "Know Yourself" this soon after it was released is the musical equivalent of ordering dinner at Morimoto and having it come out right away.

Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA A more cultural equivalent of ordering a Full English in Faliraki, the Gilbert and George retrospective at San Francisco's de Young is a British fix for those far from home.

In 1993 she received New Zealand's greatest honour, the Order of New Zealand, joining Prince Philip in the equivalent of the Order of Merit.

Our model suggests that ion irradiation increases the fictive temperature of our glass by tens of degrees – the equivalent of many orders of magnitude change in cooling rate.

Following this analysis, we propose an extension of this transformation to any elliptical copula, and give the equivalent of the First Order Reliability Method (FORM) and the Second Order Reliability Method (SORM) for this generalization.

Some employees viewed this as the equivalent of a gag order.