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We do expect it will weaken before it makes landfall. It will probably be more on the lines of Category 1. But even so there will be very high gale force winds in an area that is just not used to seeing this, the winds are a threat but we expect the biggest impact will be from the very, very, very serious rainfall. I’ve seen some reports that the area might get the equivalent of more than a year's worth of rainfall in a couple of days. – Clare Nullis	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We do expect it will weaken before it makes landfall. It will probably be more on the lines of Category 1. But even so there will be very high gale force winds in an area that is just not used to seeing this, the winds are a threat but we expect the biggest impact will be from the very, very, very serious rainfall. I've seen some reports that the area might get the equivalent of more than a year's worth of rainfall in a couple of days. – Clare Nullis	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
You could say that it's global trade's equivalent of the shift from dial-up internet to broadband. – The WTO	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We can no longer allow solidarity to be equivalent to naivety, openness to be equivalent to helplessness, freedom to be equivalent to chaos. And by that, I am of course referring to the situation on our borders, citizens want to feel safe again, because only then will they be capable of helping people in need. – Donald Tusk	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This is the first time that we've been able to get to these really intense winds of Category 5 equivalent in the laboratory and study how they interact with the ocean surface, we want to know how they get from less intense to more intense and all different steps along the way. – Brian Haus	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Flores is moving so fast -- the development I've seen in the past five years is the equivalent of 20 years' development in other parts of Indonesia, there weren't any roads back then -- just rocks and mud. There was only one real restaurant in town. Now there are probably 20 good places to eat. – Marco Bertini	Found on CNN 8 years ago
You're seeing hedge funds set up financing desks equivalent to a PB (prime brokerage) house so that they understand how we evaluate the clients, so they can help optimize their activity, because every prime has a slightly different sweetspot across markets. – The Europe prime brokerage chief	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
You're seeing hedge funds set up financing desks equivalent to a PB (prime brokerage) house so that they understand how we evaluate the clients, so they can help optimise their activity, because every prime has a slightly different sweetspot across markets. – The Europe prime brokerage chief	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I had hoped we can reach a point where it says 'I promise to pay the bearer in platinum equivalent' to add to the basket, so we are looking at internal promotion. – Mines Minister Ngoako Ramatlhodi	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
No other method of tracking weight loss is 100 percent equivalent to weighing yourself. In a lot of cases, just working through the scale anxiety with a professional helps to get past that, so you can use it in a productive way. – Scott Kahan	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The end result is the equivalent of hundreds or more passengers indirectly touching the contaminated hands of hundreds or more fellow passengers, avoiding the mass handshakes with the captain is not only for the protection and well-being of the captain, but for the passenger as well. – John Bradberry	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The reasons they don't complete the trail vary from injury, fatigue and I'd say the most common reason is they don't realize how hard it is and they aren't ready for the experience. that 515,000 feet of up and down is equivalent to going from zero elevation to the top of Mount Everest 16 times. – The Appalachian Trail Conservancy	Found on CNN 8 years ago
That 515,000 feet of up and down is equivalent to going from zero elevation to the top of Mount Everest 16 times. – Ron Tipton	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It is rare for pandas to live to this age, it's probably equivalent to someone, a human person, who would be over a hundred years of age. – Grant Abel	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Is that the equivalent of a rope we have up here? i think it should come down. I don't want anybody to be...stressed. – Hillary Clinton	Found on CNN 8 years ago
A key finding is that physical activity among older adults does not have to be strenuous to reduce heart failure risk, we saw benefits for adults who walked at moderate or brisk pace (more than 2 or 3 miles per hour) and burned calories through leisure activity, like house or yard work, walking, engaging in outdoor activities, or other forms of physical activity, equivalent to about 30 minutes per day of moderate-intensity activity. – Del Gobbo	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
A key finding is that physical activity among older adults does not have to be strenuous to reduce heart failure risk, we saw benefits for adults who walked at moderate or brisk pace( more than 2 or 3 miles per hour) and burned calories through leisure activity, like house or yard work, walking, engaging in outdoor activities, or other forms of physical activity, equivalent to about 30 minutes per day of moderate-intensity activity. – Del Gobbo	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Killing or smuggling a cow is equivalent to raping a Hindu girl or destroying a Hindu temple. – Jishnu Basu	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The TV appearances are the equivalent of what a whistle stop used to be, they still have to do that, but the modern whistle stop is The View and Fallon and Colbert, and you slowly build up, if nothing else, the base of people who know you. – Robert Thompson	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We go to that high altitude because it simulates the atmospheric conditions on Mars, mars has a very thin atmosphere. With current space technologies, NASA can land about 1 metric tonne, or 2,200 pounds on the surface of Mars, roughly equivalent to the Curiosity Rover’s weight. – Steve Jurczyk	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Let’s also make sure that a high school diploma puts our kids on a path to a good job. Right now, countries like Germany focus on graduating their high school students with the equivalent of a technical degree from one of our community colleges, so that they’re ready for a job. At schools like P-TECh in Brooklyn … students will graduate with a high school diploma and an associate degree in computers or engineering. We need to give every American student opportunities like this. – President Barack Obama	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I'd like to see if we can create something equivalent to the maritime world in the cyber world that enables us to keep moving information, keep moving commerce, keep moving ideas on a global basis, can we create a 'global commons', so to speak, that enables open, reliable, safe and resilient communications, a flow of information and ideas? – Admiral Michael Rogers	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
That's the good news. The bad news is every single time( Milos Raonic steps) it literally feels like Milos Raonic's stepping on a tack or jellyfish, is the equivalent, milos Raonic is trying to get ready to play the French Open. – Austin Nunn	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
In exchange for all of that, what you would get is the equivalent of a non-immigrant, non-permanent work visa to be in the US. – Marco Rubio	Found on CNN 9 years ago

We do expect it will weaken before it makes landfall. It will probably be more on the lines of Category 1. But even so there will be very high gale force winds in an area that is just not used to seeing this, the winds are a threat but we expect the biggest impact will be from the very, very, very serious rainfall. I’ve seen some reports that the area might get the equivalent of more than a year's worth of rainfall in a couple of days.

– Clare Nullis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We do expect it will weaken before it makes landfall. It will probably be more on the lines of Category 1. But even so there will be very high gale force winds in an area that is just not used to seeing this, the winds are a threat but we expect the biggest impact will be from the very, very, very serious rainfall. I've seen some reports that the area might get the equivalent of more than a year's worth of rainfall in a couple of days.

– Clare Nullis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You could say that it's global trade's equivalent of the shift from dial-up internet to broadband.

– The WTO

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We can no longer allow solidarity to be equivalent to naivety, openness to be equivalent to helplessness, freedom to be equivalent to chaos. And by that, I am of course referring to the situation on our borders, citizens want to feel safe again, because only then will they be capable of helping people in need.

– Donald Tusk

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is the first time that we've been able to get to these really intense winds of Category 5 equivalent in the laboratory and study how they interact with the ocean surface, we want to know how they get from less intense to more intense and all different steps along the way.

– Brian Haus

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Flores is moving so fast -- the development I've seen in the past five years is the equivalent of 20 years' development in other parts of Indonesia, there weren't any roads back then -- just rocks and mud. There was only one real restaurant in town. Now there are probably 20 good places to eat.

– Marco Bertini

Found on CNN
8 years ago

You're seeing hedge funds set up financing desks equivalent to a PB (prime brokerage) house so that they understand how we evaluate the clients, so they can help optimize their activity, because every prime has a slightly different sweetspot across markets.

– The Europe prime brokerage chief

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You're seeing hedge funds set up financing desks equivalent to a PB (prime brokerage) house so that they understand how we evaluate the clients, so they can help optimise their activity, because every prime has a slightly different sweetspot across markets.

– The Europe prime brokerage chief

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I had hoped we can reach a point where it says 'I promise to pay the bearer in platinum equivalent' to add to the basket, so we are looking at internal promotion.

– Mines Minister Ngoako Ramatlhodi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

No other method of tracking weight loss is 100 percent equivalent to weighing yourself. In a lot of cases, just working through the scale anxiety with a professional helps to get past that, so you can use it in a productive way.

– Scott Kahan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The end result is the equivalent of hundreds or more passengers indirectly touching the contaminated hands of hundreds or more fellow passengers, avoiding the mass handshakes with the captain is not only for the protection and well-being of the captain, but for the passenger as well.

– John Bradberry

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The reasons they don't complete the trail vary from injury, fatigue and I'd say the most common reason is they don't realize how hard it is and they aren't ready for the experience. that 515,000 feet of up and down is equivalent to going from zero elevation to the top of Mount Everest 16 times.

– The Appalachian Trail Conservancy

Found on CNN
8 years ago

That 515,000 feet of up and down is equivalent to going from zero elevation to the top of Mount Everest 16 times.

– Ron Tipton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It is rare for pandas to live to this age, it's probably equivalent to someone, a human person, who would be over a hundred years of age.

– Grant Abel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Is that the equivalent of a rope we have up here? i think it should come down. I don't want anybody to be...stressed.

– Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

A key finding is that physical activity among older adults does not have to be strenuous to reduce heart failure risk, we saw benefits for adults who walked at moderate or brisk pace (more than 2 or 3 miles per hour) and burned calories through leisure activity, like house or yard work, walking, engaging in outdoor activities, or other forms of physical activity, equivalent to about 30 minutes per day of moderate-intensity activity.

– Del Gobbo

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

A key finding is that physical activity among older adults does not have to be strenuous to reduce heart failure risk, we saw benefits for adults who walked at moderate or brisk pace( more than 2 or 3 miles per hour) and burned calories through leisure activity, like house or yard work, walking, engaging in outdoor activities, or other forms of physical activity, equivalent to about 30 minutes per day of moderate-intensity activity.

– Del Gobbo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Killing or smuggling a cow is equivalent to raping a Hindu girl or destroying a Hindu temple.

– Jishnu Basu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The TV appearances are the equivalent of what a whistle stop used to be, they still have to do that, but the modern whistle stop is The View and Fallon and Colbert, and you slowly build up, if nothing else, the base of people who know you.

– Robert Thompson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We go to that high altitude because it simulates the atmospheric conditions on Mars, mars has a very thin atmosphere. With current space technologies, NASA can land about 1 metric tonne, or 2,200 pounds on the surface of Mars, roughly equivalent to the Curiosity Rover’s weight.

– Steve Jurczyk

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Let’s also make sure that a high school diploma puts our kids on a path to a good job. Right now, countries like Germany focus on graduating their high school students with the equivalent of a technical degree from one of our community colleges, so that they’re ready for a job. At schools like P-TECh in Brooklyn … students will graduate with a high school diploma and an associate degree in computers or engineering. We need to give every American student opportunities like this.

– President Barack Obama

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I'd like to see if we can create something equivalent to the maritime world in the cyber world that enables us to keep moving information, keep moving commerce, keep moving ideas on a global basis, can we create a 'global commons', so to speak, that enables open, reliable, safe and resilient communications, a flow of information and ideas?

– Admiral Michael Rogers

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

That's the good news. The bad news is every single time( Milos Raonic steps) it literally feels like Milos Raonic's stepping on a tack or jellyfish, is the equivalent, milos Raonic is trying to get ready to play the French Open.

– Austin Nunn

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In exchange for all of that, what you would get is the equivalent of a non-immigrant, non-permanent work visa to be in the US.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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