In other countries, equivalent terms for the unmarried fell into disuse without feminist campaigns to push them.
North America has over 13, 000 billion barrels of hydrocarbon resources in oil-equivalent terms.
This is a nerve center to manage electricity coursing across thousands of miles, transporting as much energy in equivalent terms as two Keystone pipelines.
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Green aficionados are familiar with the statistic that the sun bathes the Earth in trillions of barrels of energy (in oil equivalent terms), and less familiar with the fact that total known hydrocarbon resources are also countable in the trillions of barrels (from the oil-sands and ultra-deep-water sub-salt fields, to methane hydrates and coal, not to mention shale gas).
The equivalent products (in terms of their basic function, not their quality) would have required 4.64 weeks of work in 1958.
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.
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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However masterpieces are the artistic equivalent of saints, not only in terms of their rarity but also in terms of their approachability.
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In present value terms, India lost an equivalent of about 36% of its 2008 GDP which represents a staggering loss of capital, according to the Nov. report.
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The stated debt is deceiving because in real terms Japan only owes the equivalent of 100% of GDP--Japan has Y1, 000, 000 billion in foreign exchange reserves and owns part of its debt, it doesn't offset debt for reporting purposes.
When Ken Lay returned to being CEO of Enron in August 2001, he was told in no uncertain terms that Enron was the functional equivalent of a ticking time bomb--the looming losses were that severe.
The efficiency of a car engine can be defined in terms of a miles-per-gallon equivalent.
Under the bailout's current terms, depositors will be compensated with the equivalent amount in shares in their banks, and Mr Anastasiades promised that those who kept deposits in Cypriot banks for the next two years would be given bonds linked to revenues from natural gas.
By increasing the number of US dollars in circulation, or even by credibly threatening to do so, the US government can also reduce the value of a dollar in terms of goods and services, which is equivalent to raising the prices in dollars of those goods and services.
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In terms of greenhouse gas emissions, burning plastic is equivalent to burning fossil fuels, says Friends of the Earth (FOE).
In terms of hours saved, each telecommuter would get the equivalent of an extra 25 working days of holiday per year.
In May, the FCC leadership floated the idea of deeming complex and dynamic Internet services equivalent to old-fashioned monopoly phone services, thereby triggering price-and-terms regulations that originated in the 1880s.
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Six of the world's 10 busiest ports are located in China, when measured in terms of cargo shipped in standard containers, or TEUs (20-foot equivalent units).
Earlier on, in response to a question by Labour's Graeme Morrice, the minister pointed out the NHS budget would increase in real terms during the lifetime of the Parliament, adding that the number of full-time equivalent clinical staff working in the NHS was higher today than in May 2010 and September 2009.
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Unlike recipients of cash or cash-equivalent benefits like Social Security or food stamps, you can't measure the benefit of schools in terms of dollars.
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"I certainly think that the Missouri race in terms of dirtiness is about as dirty as any, and probably the dirtiest race, maybe equivalent with the one in New York, " said Ken Warren, a political science professor at St.
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