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22 examples of Equates in a sentence

This system equates intelligence with a knowledge of English, which is quite arbitrary.
That equates to about $50,000 in today's money.
Now, distance and changes in our universe — distance equates to time, as well as changes on the sky.
For the microscopic lab worm, C. elegans life equates to just a few short weeks on Earth.
The history of Western culture is full of language that equates love to mental illness.
One: that society equates living in a permanent structure, even a shack, with having value as a person.
What this equates to is a mindless and totally incoherent film.
Simon, who adapted the script from his play (which goes uncredited), equates old age with irrational behavior--and, worse, clumsy, galumphing, mean-spirited irrational behavior.
Taylor, on the other hand admittedly equates killing buffalo, or Indians to 'being with a woman.'
Now I know this show probably equates its self to a modern day Pythagorean Z, but at least Pythagorean held the audience in thrall with Rick Bakers stunning dialogue.
The net annual benefits would run into several billion dollars, which equates to $3.60 worth of avoided climate damage for each dollar spent.
Indeed, a CBO rule of thumb equates a sustained one-percentage-point shortfall in real GDP growth with budget deficits that are roughly $3 trillion larger over a ten-year period.
To rely solely on the capacities of central state authorities or of central political bodies to always decide what needs to be done and how, equates power with truth, the most dangerous political conceit of this century.
Israel is bound to fight against this emerging new American doctrine that equates it with Iran, or even with India and Pakistan for that matter.
This would lead to approximately three gigawatts of capacity by 2020, which equates to 1 GW of continuous production – less than 2% of 2007 consumption.
For example, though China said little in public about Russia’s invasion and dismemberment of Georgia last summer, Russia is making a strategic mistake if it equates China’s public silence with tacit acquiescence in the Kremlin’s claim to “privileged” influence in the post-Soviet countries to China’s west.
Given that most of the lives saved are those of children, who even in developing countries have a life expectancy of at least 50 years, this equates to a cost of $68 per year of life saved.
That equates to more than 1.2 million fewer people dying from indoor air pollution each year, despite an increase in population.
However, only the dishonest politician equates politics exclusively with popularity.
But what has tended to get lost in these discussions are the malign synergies between a Third World suspicious that so-called humanitarian interventions are only colonialism redux and a unilateralist US administration wedded to the concept of pre-emptive war against enemies that it equates with states that violate human rights.
The United Nations General Assembly comes closest, but little can be expected from an organization that equates the United States or China with, say, Fiji or Guinea-Bissau.
Global financial elites had long relied on a narrative that equates capital controls with expropriation, and responsible policymakers did not want to be seen as violating property rights.