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.
BBC: Sentencing remarks on Stuart Hazell from Mr Justice Nicol
So you can take it that we are in a long-term bear market equivalent to the fall of the Roman Empire or you can see this period as just another one of the nasty economic periods we have suffered periodically since the beginning of the industrial revolution.
Energy Minister Fergus Ewing said "great progress" was being made towards the longer-term goal of meeting the equivalent of 100% of gross annual electricity demand from renewables by 2020.
Visiting Caracas ahead of the 2006 election, I met a friend who had recently graduated from a newly established public university which charged its students just 300 bolivars a term, at the time the equivalent of about 15 cents.
This means buying the equivalent of 70% of the total long-term government bonds in markets.
By compensating executives for the brilliance of their deals, rather than their long-term profitability, Enron created the corporate equivalent of a boiler-room scam shop.
It was in the face of objections from James Madison and Morris, however, that this term was too vague and would be the equivalent to tenure during the pleasure of the Senate that Mason withdrew his proposal and the convention then adopted the language other high crimes and misdemeanors against the state.
CNN: Transcript: White House Counsel Ruff's opening statement
"Bespoke has slowly started seeping into our consciousness as a term for our gold standard, as a male equivalent of couture, " he says.
Last year, 10% of the 30 companies that make up Frankfurt's DAX index, Germany's equivalent to the Dow Jones Industrials, offered some kind of long-term incentives.
The equivalent stimulus could have been achieved at a much lower budgetary cost, both near and long term, by focusing tax cuts on lower-income households who are more likely to spend their gains.
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