Whether it is enough to compensate homeowners for the wealth losses resulting from declining house prices and to prevent the impending recession remains to be seen.

Equivalent to 1 of US GDP, it is large by all accounts.

According to evolutionary psychologists, such displays of blatant benevolence are the human equivalent of the male peacock s tail.

Or is South Asia, through the growth of ASEAN, poised to one day become the Far Eastern equivalent of the EU?

For example, the Platonic equivalent of (6, 8, 10) is (3 2 2, 5 2).

The rule of law is the equivalent for Asia today of what democracy was for Europe yesterday.

What is worse is when the economic policy response becomes the equivalent of blaming foreigners imposing new forms of trade barriers.

A Toyota Prius shouldn t be the tree huggers equivalent of an American flag lapel pin.

For Europe to turn down Turkey would be tantamount to writing ourselves out of any serious script in global affairs.

If the Israel Defense Forces were the modern equivalent of the Nazis, it should be smashed with maximum force.

Now if you managed to rise up say, and be that local leader, the guy who's the equivalent of the McDonald's franchisee you'd be making 100,000 dollars a year.

The Chinese also see the commercial equivalent of containment in the US proposed Trans Pacific Partnership, which includes Japan but excludes China.

For a majority of Russian citizens, economic prosperity and televised entertainment have become the modern equivalent of the panem et circenses formula of Roman times.

Of course, the World War reference may be intended to create an us versus them logic, but this does not correspond to the nature of the challenge posed by radical Islam, given the complexity and the many divisions that exist within the Muslim world.

The Cold War, precisely because it never became hot, was never the equivalent of World War I or II.

China s warning that it will not allow North Korean troublemaking on China s doorstep can be considered the equivalent of a yellow card in soccer.

Well, if the top nine donated their earnings, it would be the equivalent of about three months income for the bottom billion.

Religious groups responded to this opportunity, emerging first as social welfare agencies, and then becoming the equivalent of local politicians.

So, instead of becoming the principal reserve asset of the global system, the proportion of SDRs in global reserves shrank to a tiny fraction, rendering the SDR the monetary equivalent of Esperanto.

So if you add these two together, alone, you can see a separation that nuclear puts out at least nine to 17 times more CO2 equivalent emissions than wind energy.

By now, wealth in the form of owner occupied housing is down about 30 , equivalent to a loss of more than 6 trillion of household wealth.

A more feasible option, therefore, would be to provide all workers and pensioners with social security numbers (or the local equivalent) with a payment from the ECB, which governments would merely assist in distributing.

His system, Paytunia, is equivalent to a credit card (in real money) or a contactless payment by mobile, but it uses Bitcoin to validate transactions, which are thus cheaper.

The PC has become the modern equivalent of cotton so basic has it become to our lives that, despite the fact that around 200 million PC s are sold each year, it now simply generates an electronic yawn.