"equivalent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Several times, the session temporarily halted when members of the Senate's Democratic minority mounted the legislative equivalent of a filibuster.
- Naming courthouses, post offices and other federal buildings is one of the most routine acts of business Congress conducts - the legislative equivalent of licking stamps.
- That would be the legislative equivalent of a slap across the face with a velvet glove.
- So the committee, skittish about tainting those cases, spared him the legislative equivalent of a perp walk.
- On Friday, after the House had completed its regular business for the week, Mr. Gingrich took the floor and proposed the legislative equivalent of a duel.
- I was asked to chair the task force currently engaged in this legislative equivalent of measuring twice, cutting once.
- "It's the legislative equivalent of asking an obese person to share their dessert."
- A task force of legislators is currently engaged in this legislative equivalent of measuring twice, cutting once.
- The problem very often is that they turn into the legislative equivalent of a Venus Flytrap.
- The few Democrats who do sometimes support free-trade pacts are waiting to see what they might be offered as the legislative equivalent of the ever-popular swing voters.
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