6 sentences with 'equivalent'
Example sentences and phrases with the word equivalent and other words derived from it.
• « Her first employer hired her as "the equivalent of a master's degree," which she certainly had. »
• « Any dishonour had to be met with equivalent dishonour, most often meeting insult with violence. »
• « Filippo Brunelleschi was the first person in the Western world to determine how to draw objects in two dimensions, on a piece of paper or its equivalent, in such a way that they would appear three-dimensional in a realistic way (i.e. having depth, as in looking into the distance and seeing objects that are further away "appear smaller" than those that are closer). »
• « Instead, the vast Spanish empire was relatively fragmented, with regional elites exercising a high degree of local autonomy. Thus, even the enormous wealth that the Spanish empire continued to generate did not translate into an equivalent degree of state or military power for the Spanish monarchy. »
• « In Protestant lands there was the equivalent in the form of the official Lutheran or Anglican churches, although the political power of the clergy in Protestant countries was generally weaker than that of the Roman Church in Catholic countries. »