He considers the customs union between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, which comes into effect on January 1st 2012, as the nucleus of a Russian equivalent of the European Union's growth-boosting integration.
None of this would work, Greve notes, unless every state legislature passed its version of the MSA, a collective action that created the equivalent of a gross violation of the federal Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
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But a loss of 1, 400 seats would imply a lead over the Tories in terms of a national equivalent vote share of only some 4%, which would be very disappointing compared with Labour's 31% national opinion-poll lead.
Because a determinate prisoner is released at the half way point in his sentence, a life sentence with a minimum term is the equivalent of a determinate sentence of double that length.
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The Dioula were found to have a homicide rate equivalent of one hundredth of a death per 1, 000 people per year, and a left-handedness rate of just 3%.
This is a cyberspace equivalent of the fairytale about stone soup, in which two men set up a big pot full of water over a fire in a town square, drop in a stone, and start stirring.
Valdez also discussed an innovative option his firm is pioneering to give clients an alternative to the typical operating line of credit: In these cases, Pavestone will pool the customer invoices into a fund that becomes the functional equivalent of a traditional line of credit.
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Creating a European equivalent of the FDIC -- through a banking union -- would pool the eurozone's insurance to guarantee bank deposits, and thus reassure investors.
Its new facility in San Antonio, scheduled to start construction this year and be up and running by early 2012, will grab 83, 000 tons of carbon dioxide a year from the equivalent of a 10-megawatt plant.
As I said, revoking the doctorate of a scientist is the equivalent of imposing a professional death penalty.
In both cases the player can lock-on to nearby enemies, fire two core weapons (a machinegun and the equivalent of a grenade launcher), and unleash a couple of charge attacks that are as explosive as they are damaging.
Refinancing applications jumped 30 percent last week, to more than double the rate we had last fall, saving the average homeowner hundreds of dollars a month -- the equivalent of a generous tax cut.
Why buy a Web portal--the online equivalent of a newspaper, a relic of the past?
The most state law will permit in the context of specific performance for a breach of a personal services agreement is the equivalent of a non-compete obligation.
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If you buy a municipal bond that yields 6 percent, then it would be the equivalent of a taxable yield of 8 percent.
Ms Tuerk said it would be a 21st Century equivalent of the original playhouse - a "no frills, hard-working place of entertainment" - that would bring London theatre "back to its roots".
According to the authors, consuming a can of a caffeinated alcoholic beverage may be equivalent to drinking a bottle of wine and a few cups of coffee.
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The resource estimate signalled the Revenue Zone holds a total of 3.7 million gold equivalent ounces at a grade of 1.1 grams per ton gold equivalent ounces.
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Nokia refuses to be drawn on whether it will build a tablet equivalent of its rugged 1100 phone.
The hybrid powertrain will generate a combined equivalent of 245 horsepower and 345 pound-feet of torque, which ensures strong acceleration.
His stockpile of old titles is the equivalent of a portfolio of old TV series reruns, guaranteed to generate income for years.
"Bespoke has slowly started seeping into our consciousness as a term for our gold standard, as a male equivalent of couture, " he says.
Could we have a euro equivalent of the West Lothian question - the old chestnut about Scottish MPs getting to vote on English affairs?
But Yu and Wang, ranked No. 1 in the world, were defiant in their posts on their accounts on Weibo, a Chinese equivalent of Twitter.
Mr Lo has a novel idea for future crises: creating a financial equivalent of the National Transport Safety Board, which investigates every civil-aviation crash in America.
Then they picked out a new surrogate, KT, a married woman with the Indian equivalent of a seventh-grade education who has two small boys of her own.
Think about the ways that Facebook initially bonded with undergraduates at elite universities, or the way Pinterest connected with Midwestern moms who wanted a digital equivalent of scrapbooking.
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The company, CTrip (a Chinese equivalent of Expedia), decided to cut spending on expensive Shanghai office space by inviting some of its staff to work at home.
It is convenient to account for both oil and gas in terms of the energy equivalent of a barrel of oil, although actual North Sea oil production has fallen from just above 3 million bpd in1979 to just over one million bpd now.
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Another fell out of a spin, the skating equivalent of tripping off a curb.
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