It is equivalent to a huge tax hike, greatly affecting those who least can afford it.
Dubbed "Parivartan, " which means "change" in Hindi, it is equivalent to a Coca-Cola-University-on-Wheels.
It is equivalent to the quantity of fresh water proposed to be imported from Turkey and the total annual production capacity of a major seawater desalination plant.
As tragic as it is for any American family to lose their home, for the immigrant family, it is equivalent to completely losing the one dream they have sacrificed everything for.
It is not equivalent to private investment, which is voluntary and the investors necessarily bear the costs of their decisions.
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For example, if a web scraper checks a site for changes several thousand times per second, it is functionally equivalent to a denial of service attack.
This time they did multiple clones of multiple people, and they did it at a ratio that is roughly equivalent to what it would take you to do in vitro fertilization, something a lot of people are familiar with.
Using financial penalties to coerce action is either the equivalent of a mandate or it is not, but the decision seems to take two opposite stances on this question.
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And since the U.S. legislation is stricter than equivalent laws in other countries, it is unlikely to influence international distribution of such programs.
It is equivalent, they say, to the predictions in 2011 and 2012 that the euro was about to collapse.
But the new law included a loophole called 510(k) that remains today: A device can be approved with few or no clinical trials if it is deemed "substantially equivalent" to a gadget that existed before 1976.
Japan-Hawaii-Guam is in recession, as is Japan to the mainland U.S. The revenue base is equivalent to AMR and it, too, earns over a billion.
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Also, if passengers with disabilities are unable to use the kiosk because it is not accessible, carriers are required to provide equivalent service, such as having an airline employee assist in operating the kiosk.
In chess, it is the equivalent of giving a pawn to capture a rook.
The British production cycle is nearly complete, and it is substantial, equivalent in energy content to the cumulative Saudi oil production.
But during that time, the cost of computation has dropped so much that if you strip out those costs, NASA's budget today is probably equivalent to what it was in 1969, in constant dollars.
Now, although that is less than many analysts think is needed, it is still a fair chunk of change, equivalent to around 6% of Spanish economic output or GDP.
If the cost of cigarettes is roughly equivalent in the local Mom and Pop store as it is on the reservation, the incentive to travel to Seneca Nation (or other tribe) territory is arguably lost.
It is extraordinarily difficult to find historical data on homeowner equivalent rent in the BLS database.
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It is the digital equivalent of a cheering crowd leading up to the big event.
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Think of it this way: A meteorologist's job is equivalent to guessing when a flashmob is going to break out.
CreditSights reckons that it has created a headwind for American banks that is equivalent to some 15-25% of estimated earnings per share.
It is impossible to imagine Barack Obama as the liberals' equivalent of Ronald Reagan.
Once completed it is expected to generate 6.4 MWh DC (equivalent to 5MW AC) and be capable of generating enough electricity to power about 700 average-sized homes.
In India, it is impossible to get Parliament enacted Insitution to be created equivalent to grameen bank and even if through decades of hard work we create one such institution, India needs around 50 of them .. we could be looking at a few centuries of labour.
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To put that in perspective, it is the equivalent of about 10% of Japan's annual gross domestic product (GDP).
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No one wants to shoulder the burden as it is likely the equivalent of throwing money into a black hole.
It is no longer populated by thugs with the equivalent of digital spray paint seeking to vandalize.
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