Sentence examples for the equivalent of removing from inspiring English sources

The removal of a top predator from any ecosystem is the equivalent of removing an essential structural component from an airplane.

That net difference of 4,300 tonnes is the equivalent of removing 900 cars from the city for a year.

They might see it, he has said, as the equivalent of removing the crown jewels from a hated monarch.

The greenhouse gases captured by the project are "the equivalent of removing 21,002 cars from North Carolina roads," he said.

It mandates a 50% reduction in petroleum use by vehicles by 2030, the equivalent of removing 36m cars and trucks from the road.

Emissions of nitrogen oxide, the main precursor of urban smog, will be reduced by 18,000 tons -- the equivalent of removing 2.5 million cars from New York's roads.

His consultant tells him that the operation is "the surgical equivalent of removing a shelled, soft-boiled egg from an eggcup".

Generating 20percentt of U.S. electricity from wind, a target the wind industry is on track to reach by the year 2030, will be the climate equivalent of removing 140 million vehicles from the roads, AWEA reports.

I settled on an ablation, a procedure in which a doctor uses a laser inserted into the heart via catheters to destroy superfluous electrical pathways – the surgical equivalent of removing extraneous spark plugs from a car's engine.

Removal of lead from gasoline can be considered the environmental health equivalent of removing the handle from London's Broad Street Pump, whose contaminated water was the source of the 1854 cholera epidemic in London.

"To meet the targets under Kyoto for 2012 would be the equivalent of either removing every car, truck, ATV, tractor, ambulance, police car and vehicle of every kind from Canadian roads or closing down the entire farming and agriculture sector and cutting heat to every home, office, hospital, factory and building in Canada," Kent said.