Equivalents
[ɪk'wɪvələnts]
Examples
- These Jacobins were the equivalents of the American radicals, men with untrammelled advanced ideas. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The British Ministry of Reconstruction and its foreign equivalents were exposed as a soothing sham. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is impossible that it should have any success in these tasks without educational equivalents as to what to do and what not to do. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The use of electrical current in twelve principal cities in the United States was distributed in 1898 as follows: Lamps, arcs, and motors in sixteen candle power equivalents. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The Semitic peoples, we may point out here, are to this day _counting peoples_ strong in their sense of equivalents and reparation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Educational Equivalents. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The educational equivalents of this doctrine in the uses made of pleasurable rewards and painful penalties are only too obvious. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This is an obvious truism, which however gains meaning when translated into educational equivalents. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- As a very natural consequence of such development, the company by 1902 had 420 miles of underground system supplying installation amounting to 1,928,090 fifty-watt equivalents. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- To serve the people means to provide it with services--with clean streets and water, with education, with opportunity, with beneficent channels for its desires, with moral equivalents for evil. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- A greater number of new equivalents, of some kind or other, must have been presented to them to be exchanged for the surplus produce of that industry. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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