Sentences with phrase «british equivalent of»

Then they went into the British equivalent of what we would call the NCAA basketball tournament.

Can your explain why your unsupported opinion carries more weight compared to a few people I quoted: — the CEO of a major gas & electric utility — a geoscientist who ran the British equivalent of MIT and was later Chairman of Shell — and a Nobel physicist / Stanford professor?

The gallery was conceived by the Arts Council — the British equivalent of the NEA — as a permanent venue for its exhibition programme and growing collection.

Cabela's said the top end of the APR range declined due to a change in the London Interbank Offered Rate or Libor — the British equivalent of the U.S. prime rate.

Cabela's chief financial officer Kevin Werts attributed the move to a change in the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor), the British equivalent of the U.S. federal funds rate.

It will go on sale for the British equivalent of # 22.

(To my American readers: that's the British equivalent of the Five and Dime Store.)

Even the eye - popping color (which looks to us like someone dropped a highlighter into a bottle of whatever the British equivalent of Everclear is, then sprayed it all over the body) carries over as well — though it is complimented by bright orange «lipstick» on the grille.

That means that they place more value on the benefits of EU membership and are less troubled by potential trade - offs than the Brits who reside in the British equivalent of «flyover country.»

«King & Country» is a very harsh and bleak anti-war film that's been largely relegated to the cinematic dustbin of history, despite being very well - regarded at the time — enough to earn four BAFTA Awards nominations (the British equivalent of the Oscars), including Best Picture.

There was an outcry when the Baftas — the British equivalent of the Oscars — failed to award Charlotte Rampling a Best Actress nomination for her stunning performance in the brilliant British marriage drama «45 Years».

He turns Kildare into the British equivalent of the strong silent type.

The British equivalent of the F.D.A. investigated but found «no critical or major deficiencies» in the manufacture and handling of TGN1412, or in the testing and handling of the subjects.

To help separate the whole wheat from the crap, the Office of Communications (Ofcom)-- roughly the British equivalent of the FCC — commissioned a team to develop a scientific, objective method for analyzing and evaluating food.

Commenting on a draft Tory plan to paint the Labour leader as a British equivalent of Michael Dukakis — «part of a metropolitan elite with no understanding of mainstream concerns» — he warned that this would be a «terrible idea».

I would also point out «director / manager / personnel officer of a VAT - registered company» which would seem to include the British equivalent of a supervisor at McDonald's.

At eighty - two, Simone Veil is still an active and articulate woman who has become in France almost the British equivalent of a national treasure.

Does anyone know what the British equivalent of whole wheat pastry flour would be?

Crisps are the British equivalent of an America potato chip.

Not exact matches

The U.S. - Belgian conglomerate sweetened its terms to smaller shareholders by some 4.3 % to 44 British pounds a share, and the terms for the strategic shareholders who control 41 % of SABMiller's stock by 4.1 % to the equivalent of GBP39.03.

Last year the Ontario Teachers Pension Fund bought one of Spain's largest funeral businesses from 3i Group, a British private - equity firm, for # 117m, and increased its stake in a French equivalent.

Other analysts questioned Apotheker's decision to spend more than $ 10 billion on the purchase of software - maker Autonomy — a price equivalent to roughly 10 times the British company's annual revenue.

A gilt is a bond issued by the British government, considered the U.K. equivalent of U.S. Treasuries.

Two hundred forty years after the Sons of Liberty dumped the equivalent of $ 1.7 million in East India Company tea into Boston Harbor, America's tea drinkers are enjoying the most tasteful and successful British invasion since The Beatles.

West Ham did set a record for a transfer between British clubs when they paid # 65,000 for Johnny Byrne in 1962 and then also set a world goalkeeper transfer record on signing Phil Parkes from QPR (in 1979) for a fee of # 565,000 (equivalent to circa # 3 million today).

The sum is equivalent to # 1,000 for every British family or a cut of 6p from the basic rate of income tax.

The average energy bill in the UK is # 1,267 meaning that the royal bill is the equivalent of around 2,288 british households.

The most ridiculous part of this morning's Today interview with Nick Clegg was when he tried to claim that those opposing change were lickspittles of the British establishment, while he and his band of heroic rebels were the modern equivalent of the liberators of the Bastille.

By contrast, in Japan, 85 % of students achieve the equivalent of maths A-level, and Indian students study maths and science for twice as long each week at high school as their British counterparts.

The irony here is if this tweeter was told that the issue was of British migrants (like myself, a British immigrant living in Turkey) putting pressure on communities abroad, she would probably be leaping to attack anybody who dared to disagree with Harris» Romanian or Turkish equivalent.

Modern day equivalents to the National Front continue to promote racist and fascist views and it is vital to the National Union of Teachers that they do not gain a foothold in British politics.

It was originally headlined «Human Rights Act to remain in PLACE after Brexit as British equivalent «shelved»» and contained a number of factual inaccuracies about the European Union and the Human Rights Act.

Comparison of 2010 ethnic minority vote choices on the (also online) YouGov web panel with the more comprehensive Ethnic Minority British Election Study (EMBES) conducted in that same year shows that Tory support in the online sample is 10 points higher, and Labour support 13 - 18 points lower, than among the equivalent groups in the EMBES.

The more I look at it the more I see the EU / Brexit as the modern equivalent of Ireland in 19th and early 20th century British politics.

There is no such title as crown prosecutor in Russia — the Crown Prosecution Service is a British term — but the equivalent in Russia is the prosecutor general of Russia.

The electric hybrid eVaro, developed in Canada by Future Vehicle Technologies of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, can accelerate to 60 miles per hour in around 5 seconds, and drives at least 165 miles on the equivalent of a US gallon of fuel.

Bottom - feeding fish off the British Isles alone trap the equivalent of one million metric tons of carbon dioxide every year, according to a study published in June in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

James Prescott Joule (1818 — 1889) The unit that measures work, or energy (a force acting over distance), honors the British physicist who established that all forms of energy are equivalent.

Americans, for example, consumed 8.6 tons of oil or its commercial energy equivalent per capita in 2007, according to data kept by British Petroleum; Indians consumed just 0.4 ton per capita.

The 2007 British Gambling Prevalence Survey * estimated that 0.6 % of UK adults have a problem with gambling, equivalent to approximately 300,000 people, which is around the total population of a town like Swansea.

The bands» creative successes were measured through analysis of album reviews in Rolling Stone magazine and British equivalent Trouser Press, and popular successes were measured by each album's highest position on the Billboard 200 chart.

Your university careers service or international relations office can give you details of many of the programmes, but you might want to start your research by looking into opportunities offered by the Leverhulme Trust, the British Council, the Wellcome Trust, the Royal Society, the Human Frontiers Science Program, the Fulbright Commission in the UK, or the national equivalents of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)-- to name but a few!

The latter requires an extra year's studying, so if you can show that your British qualification is equivalent to this, rather than a Licence, it will give you a better chance of securing a graduate - level job.

In the worst year, the impacts resulting from the beetle outbreak in British Columbia were equivalent to 75 % of the average annual direct forest fire emissions from all of Canada during 1959 — 1999.

In British Columbia, one must meet the standards of the CTCMA to become a registered acupuncturist (this credential is equivalent to an acupuncture license in the United States) and thus to legally practice acupuncture throughout Canada.

Michael Apted, who turned the simple BBC documentary Seven Up into the most remarkable documentary series ever created, takes another stab at fiction with the British mathematician equivalent of a spy film, Enigma.

The established figures around him, mostly played by British actors — Caine's Alfred, Morgan Freeman's equivalent of Bond's Q, Gary Oldman's Commissioner Gordon — do their standard stuff.

The Reynolds - Cyril bond — reportedly modeled on those between real - life British postwar couturiers Victor Stiebel and Norman Hartnell and their manager sisters — more perversely (and satisfyingly) struck me as the sexless equivalent of the long, brilliant, mad partnership of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé, who remained close companions and business associates even after they split as a couple.

We know that the new film will see an American equivalent to the British agents and now Matthew Vaughn appears to have recruited Game Of Thrones» Pedro Pascal to play their main man.

Consider this British would - be tearjerker the date movie equivalent of Batman v Superman: both ghastly and flat, and inert when it should be its most heart - stopping moments.