Sentence examples for was hardly equivalent from inspiring English sources

It took place on a 300 metre highway and was hardly equivalent to actual traffic conditions.

The two political systems are hardly equivalent.

That they were not in 1948, or in 1967, is surely a sore point, but it is hardly equivalent to the moral claim of a people chased through history from their homes and their roots.

Everywhere cultural and religious identities - and these, whether they're Christian, Hindu, Muslim or Jewish, are hardly equivalent to personal faith - were beginning to take precedence over other kinds of political groupings.

These are hardly equivalent charges.

But it didn't take long to realize that this was hardly the financial equivalent of the WikiLeaks cables.

(They're hardly the equivalent of the giant rubber-band ball).

Fundamental equality, however, is hardly the equivalent of a liquor law that can vary on opposite sides of a state line.

Harlequins v Saracens London rugby is hardly the equivalent of football in Rome, Milan or Madrid: the divide has little to do with class politics, although the  cravat-and-corduroy set are far more likely to be spotted at Quins than at Saracens.

But Hydroptère, the equivalent of a sprinter, was hardly designed to race around the buoys — upwind, then downwind, then do it again — like an America's Cup yacht.

Even so, the space in question was hardly evocative of Politburo luxury when Mr. Bobovnikov bought it in 2002 for the equivalent of about $220,000.