Sentences with phrase «functional equivalent»

It is, therefore, not an exaggeration to suggest that the licensing of television represents the modern functional equivalent of an establishment of religion.

The problem with dating apps, as he sees it, is that they treat male and female users as functional equivalents.

They therefore provide for functional equivalents of writing (and signature, and original) to take the place of writing when electronic communications are used.

The second question follows from the first: What are the implications of «postliberal» views of Christianity for the unavoidable consciousness of radical religious pluralism, not to mention the plurality of various functional equivalents to religions?

The Electronic Commerce Act 2000 doesn't remove the old legal formalities, but only allows us to meet them with an electronic functional equivalent.

(c) at least 120 days have elapsed since the whistleblower provided the information to the relevant entity's audit committee, chief legal officer, CCO (or their respective functional equivalents) or the individual's supervisor, or, at least 120 days have elapsed since the whistleblower received the information, if in the circumstances the whistleblower received the information, the whistleblower became aware that one or more of those individuals were already aware of the information.

The second proposal would have captured magic words as well as «functional equivalents of express advocacy,» which according to a 1987 federal court ruling are ads that «could only be interpreted by a reasonable person as containing advocacy of the election or defeat of one or more clearly identified candidates.»

«That's the functional equivalent of not being able to read a financial statement,» Hindawi said.

You've just offered him the functional equivalent of what Wall Street calls a total - return swap.

These hairpieces are the functional equivalent of wigs and might be expected to look and feel like wigs after attachment.

But when it comes to redistributive taxation of Harvard and Yale, they suddenly become the functional equivalent of supply - siders.

Typically, the university's board of trustees, or its functional equivalent, appoints a dean as the chief executive officer of the theological school.

Since no one can exist without hard ground on which to stand, liberals have fashioned the functional equivalents of absolutes, variously styled «values,» «goals,» «priorities» or «agendas,» which have the great assets of being contextual, relational and mobile.

Tagliabue termed those clauses «the functional equivalent of a signing bonus» and ruled that they put the Seahawks over their rookie - pool maximum.

The DN begs to differ, calling Cuomo's plan «the functional equivalent of a fraud» and demanding that he «reverse course.»

To be sure, no one would seriously suggest the functional equivalent of stuffing New York's pensions into a mattress.

«The entire document is the functional equivalent of whistling a happy tune past the graveyard,» said mayoral spokesman Marc LaVorgna.

By the time he took the rostrum in the House chamber last night for the functional equivalent of a State of the Union address, President Trump had generated considerable suspense around what he would actually say and how it would be received.

By assessing structural similarities between the two, her software calculated the probability that a particular Ugaritic word was a cognate — a functional equivalent — of a selected Hebrew word.

These extensive and selective actions of the conditioned stimulus in Aplysia resemble the actions of conditioned fear stimuli in higher mammals and suggest that the functional equivalent of fear occurs in invertebrates and thus may be an adaptive mechanism that is widespread in the animal kingdom.

The timekeeping resonator at the heart of the Swiss - made Tissot T - Touch, the functional equivalent of a clock pendulum, is a single crystal of quartz, an eighth of an inch long and housed in an evacuated cylinder (black square, at top right of chip).

«This will let you watch the Super Bowl from the vantage point of the quarterback,» Reddy says, deeming this ability the functional equivalent of teleportation.

And they would make a calm, deliberate decision to kill Joe or expel him from the group — the functional equivalent of executing him.»

David Quinn Media bias is the functional equivalent of fake news.

Some have argued that Advanced Placement (AP) exams serve as the functional equivalent of a comprehensive system of subject - specific, externally validated exit exams.

Rather, a strong, fair process already exists to determine whether a non-profit constitutes the «functional equivalent» of a public agency.

Taxpayer money should not be spent building grandiose temples when the functional equivalent would serve just as well.

Your gas pedal is the functional equivalent if a suggestion box.

It can, answered Stewart, «if the book contained the functional equivalent of express advocacy,» the test used in regulating broadcast, cable or satellite communication released 60 days before a general election or 30 days before a presidential primary or convention.

In the US it is also possible to obtain a personal line of credit to avoid overdrafts — the functional equivalent of what Jack describes.

I definitely agree that getting rid of 6 % debt is the functional equivalent of getting a 6 % return and paying off the credit card, at that interest rate, beats the yield I'm getting in my portfolio.

«It's a tell - tale sign of something that could reverberate if it spreads to other markets, and all the uncertainty with the debt ceiling is the functional equivalent of a tightening,» Mr. Caron said.

But, if you look carefully, you'll find the functional equivalents of this scam.

Despite the public perception of PETA as a radical «animal rights» organization, in practice, the organization is itself the functional equivalent of a slaughterhouse.

In 2017, PETA continued to act as the functional equivalent of a slaughterhouse, with more than 1,800 defenseless animals dying at the hands of their employees.

As I have long argued, for community cats who are not social with humans («feral»), TNR is the functional equivalent of adoption.

It treats the mecha as though they were the functional equivalent of a Musou series protagonist, rather than as the fragile real robots they actually are.

This regulatory framework, in addition to providing for directly enforceable limits on all carbon emissions from all of America's carbon sources, includes a corresponding system of carbon pollution fines which is the functional equivalent of a legislated tax on carbon.

The second measure would be to impose a corresponding framework of stiff carbon pollution fines which is the functional equivalent of a legislated carbon tax.

They can use Section 108 of the Clean Air Act to directly and indirectly limit the production, supply, and availability of all carbon fuels; and they can impose a corresponding system of carbon pollution fines which is the functional equivalent of a legislated tax on carbon.