For facial plastic surgery, a doctor certified by the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery is considered an equivalent in all states.
The Transportation Safety Board is the Canadian equivalent of the United States' National Transportation Safety Board.
There has never really been the equivalent in the United States.
Even if that does not make China a global or even regional power equivalent to the United States, it does mean that China is likely to look more awesome to its regional neighbours, and its enhanced capabilities will mean that any American military tasks will require greater forces and resources than is the case at present.
In 1996 the United States used the equivalent of 4.6m barrels a day of non-fossil fuel.
Since pension promises are legally (and sometimes constitutionally) protected in many states, the equivalent promise is a government bond.
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The equivalent organizations in the United states are the NFL, NBA, and the respective NCAA college football and basketball programs.
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The performance gap between youth with the least and most parental education in the United States was the equivalent of 15 years of additional schooling.
By comparison, the first atomic bombs developed by the United States produced an explosion equivalent to about 19 kilotons, or 19, 000 tons of TNT, according to the U.S. Air Force.
To the contrary, as evidenced in his recent interview on CNN, he continues to believe that the Soviet Union must maintain forces equivalent to those of the United States -- with ominous implications for the destitute economy of the former USSR.
New tobacco companies, which by definition could not have participated in the decades-long scheme to convince smokers that the Surgeon General and their own doctors were lying to them, must post the equivalent of a bond to the states just to get into the business.
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In effect, what that has created in countries such as the Dominican Republic is an equivalent to AAU basketball in the United States.
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The Maryland Court of Appeals (equivalent to the Supreme Court in other states) has rejected that challenge, a relief to defense lawyers who have seen similar caps struck down in Illinois and Georgia.
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In the Feb. 10 hearing Ellison's lawyers tried to convince the six judges on New York's Court of Appeals--the equivalent of the Supreme Court in other states--that Schuyler meant to restrict challenges to organized clubs with a history of running annual regattas.
For one, it has a common central bank that automatically transfers reserves between member states, thereby avoiding the modern equivalent of a country running out of gold.
For example, the adoption of genetically engineered, herbicide-tolerant crops just in the United States contributed in 2010 to the equivalent of removing 11 billion pounds (5 billion kg) of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, the equivalent of removing nearly 2.25 million cars from the road for one year.
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This new deal, Mr Brown said, would be an equivalent of the Marshall Plan, under which the United States helped revive the European economy after World War II.
According to the study, all WTO member-states must abide by a moratorium on tariffs and equivalent fees on data transmissions.
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Over the past three years, China has added 200 gigiwatts of coal-fired electric power capacity--equivalent to 20% of the entire installed capacity of the United States.
In most states, an average policeman's salary and status is equivalent to that of an unskilled municipal worker, encouraging corruption.
The government is arguing that, even if not a citizen of a country at war with the United States, he has given his "obedience" to something equivalent - al-Qaeda.
As an Indian civil servant for nearly 40 years, Mehta has held such positions as the Deputy Governor of the Indian Reserve Bank and Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), which is the equivalent of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the United States, among several other high-profile posts.
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British Petroleum for example, states clearly that no executive can exercise options until his shareholding is equivalent to at least five times his annual salary.
American citizens are equivalent to the shareholders of the biggest corporation in the world, the United States Government a multitrillion dollar conglomerate, and a real dinosaur.
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The airframe technology to be transferred is roughly equivalent to the F-15 technology, which the Japanese received from the United States roughly 10 years ago.
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That was the assessment a year-and-a-half ago, Since then, the Congressional Research Service has tabulated the totals and acknowledges that the United States currently has the largest known fossil fuel reserves in terms of total oil equivalent almost three times as much as Saudi Arabia and it seems that every month the new gets better: The reserves continue to swell.
And there is no equivalent of Animal House or the huge literature on high school and college experience in the United States both in films and books in Europe.
The Prime Minister evidently remains untroubled that the bitter fruit of his efforts in the so-called Quartet - the diplomatic equivalent of gang rape involving the European Union, the United Nations, Russia and the United States teamed up to stick it to Israel - will be the creation of yet another Islamofascist state-sponsor of terror in the Middle East.
He is working with activists in up to ten states notably Colorado, Florida, Arizona and Washington to put a local equivalent of 209 either on to the ballot or into the legislature.
Dealers located within a 50-mile radius of a major urban center were found to offer lower prices on equivalent models than their counterparts located in distant suburbs and rural areas in nearly all U.S. states.
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