| 单词 | equal |
| 例句 | His entire body had a violent definition, a primal joy in aggression that caused men of equal size to afford him caution, and especially distance. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Counterpoised against the myth of “race suicide” and “race deterioration” was the equal and opposite myth of racial and genetic purity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z "I'm not sexist. I believe in equal pain." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Zero divided by zero can equal any number in the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z According to the Egyptian law that the Ptolemies followed, women were allowed to take the throne and rule in their own right or as equal partners alongside the men. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The logarithm of a number is simply the power to which 10 must be raised to equal the number in question. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Women, patronized for millennia, traditionally denied real political and economic power, are gradually becoming, even in the most backward societies, equal partners with men. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the month and a half since the racial equality discussion in Socio Evo, Jared’s been on a crusade to prove things in America are equal. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z By then, Ptolemy XIV would have been about fifteen—old enough to demand equal power and old enough to become a rival. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The melody was adorned in equal measure by the harshness of tone and a dismal, languorous mistuning with which I plagued all but the uneasy cadences. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Christian was offended at Tycho’s high tone and the way he treated the King as an equal, and not least by this haughty phrase, which implied that Tycho might refuse a royal request. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The very flow of the rivers was determined by this man and the gods he called his equals. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Blanche and Mary were of equal stature,—straight and tall as poplars. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “That is very true,” I said with equal seriousness. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I had no real friends, no single person who shared an equal interest in all games. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z White people felt equal, after all, so why should black people feel any different? March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z They wanted equal access and opportunities to do whatever their talents and resources would allow them to do. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z However, they were all heroes of renown, some of them the greatest in Greece, and they were quite equal to their adventures. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z "Well, equal shares doesn't seem quite fair, since I'm the only one here who thought of taking notes." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Since we are all supposed to be equal, if one person starves, then all should starve. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Colonel and I, at the same moment, equal in our guilt, said, “Okay.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z When I had that doctor moment I was talking about, when they cut somebody's arm off and then realize it was a bad idea—my shoes equaled that arm. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z She said women and men were equal in every way and there was no reason women should cover if men didn’t. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I could not ac-custom myself to sitting in their living room as an “equal.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I would not be your equal with pistols’ and Bon: ‘Nor with knives or rapiers too?’ and the lawyer, smooth and easy: ‘Nor knives or rapiers too.’ Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z Since there are serious consequences to misinterpreting these statements as absolute laws, a responsible writer should insert a qualifier like on average or all things being equal, together with a slightly or somewhat. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It was essentially just a confusing mass of numbers, but Hutton noticed that if he used a pencil to connect points of equal height, it all became much more orderly. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z At first, Susan B. Anthony focused her campaign on two issues: a married woman’s right to keep her own wages and a mother’s right to share equal guardianship of her children. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z It said that all men were created equal. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z “We would never be equal. She would always have more than me. Always need more than me. She needs someone who understands things like she does.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z "You," his sister Cersei said in a tone that was equal parts disbelief and distaste. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The mob seemed to be equal parts men and women. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She told the girls about Yentl and then about Conatt the Barbarian with equal vigor; about Star Wars, which confused them; and Fiddler on the Roof, which did not. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the experimental evidence known to us could not yet distinguish between two- and three-chain models, he wanted to pay equal attention to both alternatives. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Allowing all children equal access to an art form is more difficult than it sounds. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z That is why the infinite sum of +1 and –1 we saw at the beginning of the chapter seems to equal 0 and 1 at the same time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z We are equals at last, equal, alien, alone. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z This was Kepler’s second law of planetary motion: Planets sweep out equal areas in equal times. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A large, middle-aged man, he long ago won my admiration by offering equal job opportunities to members of any race, choosing according to their qualifications and future potentialities. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He stood quite still, holding the miraculous paper in his nerveless fingers while inside him a kind of quiet eruption sent joy and grief thundering in equal measure through his veins. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “Because every ninth night, eight gold arm-rings of equal beauty will drip from it. You can reward people with them, or store them, and your wealth will increase.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Richard would write about this, the rule of Western journalism: One hundred dead black people equal one dead white person. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Every cuss word that follows equals a dollar in Sekani’s jar if he hears it. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Bad as he wanted to leave the mill and amount to something, Hosie would be equal to ten of Uncle Camp plus maybe two of me, and Grandpa would respect him. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Lanre had fought since he could lift a sword, and by the time his voice began to crack he was the equal of a dozen older men. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A classic writer counts on the common sense and ordinary charity of his readers, just as in everyday conversation we know when a speaker means “in general” or “all else being equal.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Women were originally excluded, but now things are more equal for them too. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z They worked just as hard and with equal skill as male craftsmen, and their contributions were essential to their family’s financial success. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Poster boards hung at equal intervals with signs that read, group 1, group 2, and so on all the way to group 25 with the partners’ names listed right below. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z She was not equal, however, to much conversation, and when Miss Bingley left them together, could attempt little beside expressions of gratitude for the extraordinary kindness she was treated with. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z I had never known a pleasure equal to this pillage. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Thinking that Rosy wanted nothing to do with him, he spoke largely to Maurice, until he slowly perceived that Rosy wanted his crystallographic advice and was prepared to exchange unconcealed hostility for conversation between equals. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z He reaches out his hand to shake mine—as if I am his equal. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z He’s no philosopher, but he understands action without goodwill to equal as much as half an equation. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z It dawned upon me that they were trying to treat me as an equal, which made it even more impossible for me ever to tell them that I had lied, why I had lied. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Entering the Cadillac with equal desperation from two sides, they were soon accelerating down the beach road and back on the highway that headed from town. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z To treat black tenants as equals ran contrary to the Southern way of life. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z She never put herself forward, but kept her position respectfully equal with other people, and she did not say irritatingly clever things. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z For the past couple of years I’d avoided climbing those stairs, afraid of running into his wasted mother or her wasting absence in equal doses. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z As public education expanded in the South, North Carolina legislators proved adept at giving blacks equal educational opportunities on paper while funneling most state resources to white students. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z As each Keeper flew up to the goal hoops, the crowd roared and jeered in equal measure. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Still, Illinois had Black Laws that made sure blacks like the Joneses and Isbel understood the reality: They might be free, but they were not equal. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The City of Sassinoth with equal liberality sent their young physician along with me, for I was not in very good shape yet. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z For every animal struck down, there rose an equal and opposite cry of human jubilation. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He met the reverend on equal terms, disagreeing with him where others simply assented. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Two plus two always equals four; the square on the hypotenuse is always equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He believed that all drawers were created equal and filled each with whatever fit. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z The Gran raised her other eyebrow, so both eyebrows were now high on her face, and she looked equal parts amused and surprised. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z The rules governing jury selection provide yet another illustration of the Court’s complete abdication of its responsibility to guarantee racial minorities equal treatment under the law. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z As author Thomas Reppetto has noted, bootlegging was “a quick and equal opportunity pathway to the American dream.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z It was X plus 2 over 5 equals X minus 1 over 2. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z “Except that a robot might fail due to the inherent inadequacies of his brain. The positronic brain has never equalled the complexities of the human brain.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z His own strength, he feared, was not equal to his task. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Whereas before, I had anticipated my lessons as the hour most gratifying in the day, now, in measure equal to my former pleasure, I dreaded their advent. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The ground was sodden and slippery, equal parts mud and blood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z So then you got to six X over six equals twelve. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z No choice event was kept out of our conversations, and he would show equal gusto in telling of his occasional mistakes. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z With equal measures of excitement and fear, I turned to my work. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “But once a decision has been made, he has an equal obligation to carry it out with all his energy and wisdom,” the president wrote in his memoir. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Then he and his father would be equals, in the sight, and the sound, and the love of God. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z It was a bit of a game, but it was our small way of saying that all girls—and all people—are equal. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “In marrying your nephew, I should not consider myself as quitting that sphere. He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z It was unfair to blame her for the fictional zero-sum game of her successes equaling his failures. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z “Without regard to creed, color, birthplace, occupation, or social conditions. My aim is to do equal and exact justice among them all.” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Nico found his sense of humour equal parts endearing and annoying. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z But if I had to point to one factor as first among equals, it was the information revolution that began in the early to mid-1980s. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z For example, the Korean steel industry is equal in efficiency to ours, but all other Korean industries lag behind their American counterparts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Feigning an equal gravity, Sam made an elegant leg, and delivered a short, sharp kick to the barrel. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z As an example, let’s take the famous equation we all learned in high school: rate times time equals distance. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The COD served an important symbolic function for Africans; blacks who had come into the struggle because they were antiwhite discovered that there were indeed whites of goodwill who treated Africans as equals. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z All honoring the same God Allah, all in turn giving equal honor to each other. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t see why you split equal with that weird kid. He wouldn’t know the difference.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z “Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z To me, that just equals a good time, most of the time. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Gentlemen, if there’s one slogan in this world 1 believe, it is this: equal rights for all, special privileges for none. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Twelve was equal to one dozen, and a dozen was a good amount for Oreos but not so good if you were on the losing side of throwing down the Dozens on the playground. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “Well, for cool native impudence and pure innate pride, you haven’t your equal,” said he. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Now, for the first time, I felt the equal of an adult; I knew that I had been beaten for a reason that was not right. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “And all the former, the poor as well as the rich, belong to the upper class, and are respected and treated as equals.” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z They brought home with them the idea that “all men are created equal.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z If ever she referred to his position, she used the phrase “doctor’s assistant,” as if the process of interpretation were equal to taking someone’s temperature, or changing a bedpan. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z He really listened to us too, like we were equals. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “In Madrid. My name before yours on the sign, of course, but equal partners in all things.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He was the first to prove geometric theorems of the sort codified by Euclid three centuries later—for example, the proposition that the angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Raskin played in his high school band—clarinet, trombone, and drums “with equal ineptitude,” he wrote. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Then she looked Judge Quinzy straight in the eye, exactly as if they were equals, for she was a Swanburne girl after all. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z I was sensible in equal measure of relief at his delivery and shame at my incompetence. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The youngsters were standing silently outside the courthouse, displaying crayoned signs urging equal voting rights, when the sheriff ordered them to follow him down the street. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart,” said she afterwards to herself. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z Mott believed that “independence of the husband and wife is equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z They didn’t treat us like we were equal members of the band. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z It also became apparent to us that Rosy’s difficulties with Maurice and Randall were connected with her understandable need for being equal to the people she worked with. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “But, ma, it is just small help. You are equal to the task,” Esther said, smiling. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Queenie deliberately tore her bun into six equal pieces and arranged them around the rim of her saucer. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z It goes after, with equal tenacity: joy and heartbreak. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z It extols the abolition of racial discrimination and the achievement of equal rights for all. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On the 17th of May the Supreme Court announced the decision to condemn the “separate but equal” philosophy of education. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Determined to prove she was her brother’s equal, in addition to Greek, Elizabeth began to study Latin and mathematics with a class of older boys at the Johnstown Academy. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z They are more than equal to thrusting uphill the light mass in front of them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked over, and she held me out at arms length, an expression equal parts sadness and acceptance working across her dark features. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, a small group of friends and associates, people of power and influence who believed in equal rights, was planning a campaign to marshal public opinion. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z But none of that brought forth an indignation to equal this. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The ratios for equal temperament are all multiples of the twelfth root of two. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Marcus’s voice is solemn and gives equal weight to each word. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z When I asked Mother why they didn't act like that, she said it was because they were decent human beings, members of the Baptist organization, who understood we were equal. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z For he recognized that Jackson Park had something no other city in the world could equal: the spreading blue plain of Lake Michigan, as comely a backdrop for a fair as anyone could hope for. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z A neighboring development, the Uplands Apartments, was the white counterpart, built at the same time under the city’s “separate but equal” policies. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Six X over six equals X. X equals twelve was the answer. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z When push comes to shove, Americans fall back on their American-ness, and that American-ness means that the air traffic controller is thought of as an equal. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z He walks away without letting me respond, and it’s probably better that way, because I can’t think of anything to say that is equal to my anger. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z And he felt the equal of Doc, too; had he not slashed his table and dared him to use his gun? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He had never seen anything to equal it in his nearly seven years in the Wizarding world. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “It’s certainly fair. It’s not equal. That’s the word you were looking for. Equal.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z By fall of 1791, the French passed a law making free blacks and people of mixed background on the sugar islands legally equal to all other Frenchmen. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z We can imagine generating a cube in the following way: Take a line segment of a certain length and move it an equal length at right angles to itself. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Most important, its amount equaled the amount of guanine. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z She became in the end more than their equal in all the arduous feats of a hunter’s life. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z They had an equal responsibility for keeping the apartment clean, for cooking, and for taking care of the boys. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z He liked the classical genetic assumption that male and female cells contribute equal amounts of genetic material, even though the resulting analysis was perversely complex. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Hopkins, the Supreme Court had recognized that racially selective enforcement violates equal protection of the laws. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She didn’t understand the words, most of them at any rate, but created equal was not lost on her. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Good-hearted people paid a dear price for standing up for African-Americans’ equal rights. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z And I can’t exactly say when animal activists around the world began calling for equal billing for their own favorite species, adding in Year of the Otter, and the Whale, and the Penguin. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The founding document of the United States proclaims all men to be created equal. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z As we passed through cities and villages, we caused a stir equaled only by a circus parade. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Elsewhere in the South, the struggle for equal rights was moving into the federal courts and, increasingly, into the streets. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the work of some master who was Zau’s equal or superior, and worth a prince’s ransom. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z In many countries they’ve been granted equal rights; many people, mainly women, but also men, now realize how wrong it was to tolerate this state of affairs for so long. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z In uniform circular motion, an equal angle or fraction of the arc of a circle is covered in equal times. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Your father’s family had equal responsibility to provide your needs. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z But the angel was equal to that: he became a mouse and crept into Will’s shirt as if he were shy. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Other scientists bent down and with equal approbation scooped up handfuls of dirt. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “In Camazotz all are equal. In Camazotz everybody is the same as everybody else,” but he gave her no argument, provided no answer, and she held on to her moment of revelation. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She said it was different, because the balance of power was equal between women so sex was an even-steven transaction. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z And as if to show that all things were equal to him, of his own free will he issued in addition half a pound of synthetic honey to each man. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Now we might give equal prominence to biology, but they were writing before the discovery of the structure of DNA by James Watson and Francis Crick in 1953. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They cared about education, about jobs, about decent housing—about equal access to these things. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z As often observed, however, the 45,000 people killed annually on American roads are approximately equal in number to all American dead in the Vietnam War. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Shrewdly, they try to shift the terms of the argument to more congenial rhetorical ground—an approach that will force the friars to treat them as equals. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Each of these missiles carried a warhead equal in destructive power to forty Little Boys—or forty times the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Him!” he snarled, staring at Sirius, whose face showed equal dislike. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He believed in equal rights, in knowledge, in hooks; he taught me about people like Paul Robeson, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, and Joe Louis. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But if you use your intuition you think that chance is 50-50 because you think there is an equal chance that the car is behind any door. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z You really think one example proves things are equal? Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z And I agree with Newton: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The lance corporal looks around the room—the coal stove, the hanging laundry, the undersize children—with equal measures of condescension and hostility. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “As I said, largely the same. Lovely voice, light of foot, quick of tongue, men’s adoration and women’s scorn in roughly equal amounts.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But Katherine Goble had been raised not just to command equal treatment for herself but also to extend it to others. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Miss Blunt was equal to them all: she was as tall as the tallest boy in the class and twice as wide. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z It was the first time Coach Mustilli treated me like an equal opponent. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Many years later, Kepler came upon his third and last law of planetary motion, a law that relates the motion of various planets Kepler’s second law: A planet sweeps out equal areas in equal times. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “There is resilience in your blood too. The willpower to endure seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Though your ancestors were once slaves, their descendants fought for equal rights.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z This 50 percent decline in police translated into a roughly equal decline in the probability that a given criminal would be caught. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Male chimps cannot gather in a constitutional assembly to abolish the office of alpha male and declare that from here on out all chimps are to be treated as equals. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “It doesn't seem an equal trade. But as I told you, I have nothing.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I took this photo, and for just a moment pretended I was free and equal and happy. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z For what I recalled most was his saying “that no man, or woman either, shall be enslaved to any other, but stand free and equal to one another.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “I guess I’m the opposite. I feel like an Indian American here, and when I’m in India, like just an Indian. I see them both as equal and valid for me.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Quickly, they would take one sheep and mix equal parts human and sheep brains into the two bowls for the snakes. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The number of small farms merged into collectives was a number about equal to the current population of Texas. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z America seemed a society moving rapidly toward a greater accommodation of its diverse population; South Africa on the other hand was moving with equal speed, if not more, toward a total separation of all races. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z But, all other things being equal, more land and more people mean more competing societies and inventions, hence a faster pace of development. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The dim light from the cabin window cast long equal shadows from man and posts. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z A piano tuner works by listening to and timing these beats, rather than by being able to "hear" equal temperament intervals precisely. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Starting over in the same working-class neighborhood, Peralta and Zannikos quickly learned that New York was full of opportunities and obstacles, often in equal measure. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Four laps around the track equals a mile. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Similarly, President Reagan may believe that Copenhagen is in Norway, but even though Copenhagen equals the capital of Denmark, it can’t be concluded that Reagan believes the capital of Denmark is in Norway. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. King—and the entire black community—yearned for equal rights for blacks. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the German metalworking and steel industries are equal in productivity to their American counterparts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For though, when they had both grown up and become swordsmen, Cor was the more dangerous man in battle, neither he nor anyone else in the North Countries could ever equal Corin as a boxer. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Behind them came an equal number of British redcoats with bayonets fixed. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Yet nearly none of them had earned marks equal to mine. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Ten minutes of silent reading plus fifty of math plus fifty of social studies before music class, equals one hundred and ten minutes. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z The first tragic plays, which are among the best there are, never equaled except by Shakespeare, were produced in the theater of Dionysus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But the curious thing was that while he was doing so a totally different memory had clarified itself in his mind, to the point where he almost felt equal to writing it down. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z She believed that men and women were equal before God and that it was her obligation to work to make the world a better place. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z NOTE: Historically, there has been some confusion as to whether or not well temperament and equal temperament are the same thing, possibly because well temperaments were sometimes referred to at the time as "equal temperament." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z In equal temperament, the only pure interval is the octave. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Gulls and crows in equal numbers follow a tractor through its wake of dust. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It was this recalibration of pitch that became Equal Temperament - or equal tuning. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Loma would get a thousand, too, “and the house on Julius Street, now rented, which I believe to be of equal value to the others.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Maples had seen many such boys come his way and was never cowed by their youthful swagger; he was only on rare occasions impressed or prepared to view them as his equal. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I wasn't trying to move mountains of injustice or fight for the equal rights of masses of people... Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Behind it, Captain Reed prowled back and forth at the rail, looking into the mist, then turning around again to stare with equal intensity at the crate. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z This way we got fairly equal quantities and there was no bad blood between us. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Dashes equal rests, and the slur underneath two notes is equal to two eighth notes. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z They objected because Mark Antony’s soldiers were not given an equal share, and they wanted to generate hostility toward Octavian. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z I feel like an adult—his equal, and his friend. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z The mountain clans cared nothing for the enmities of the great houses; they would slaughter Stark and Lannister with equal fervor, as they slaughtered each other. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Since there is an equal chance of a marble bouncing left or right at each peg, the marble stacks in the bins below will, on average, form the classic bell-shaped curve of normal distribution.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z I might not have been good at arithmetic, but I knew that Poppy not getting work plus his not coming home would equal my mother being upset. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Here’s the math on that one: Sixty kids in the grade equals sixty sets of parents—and doesn’t even include grandparents. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z “You’re a retardo, so you probably don’t know, but five times five equals the number of times I made out with your sister.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Wickham’s affection for Lydia was just what Elizabeth had expected to find it; not equal to Lydia’s for him. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z They fused HeLa cells with mouse cells and created the first human-animal hybrids —cells that contained equal amounts of DNA from Henrietta and a mouse. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z But the mice—with equal and obdurate consistency—had been born with tails perfectly intact, generation upon generation. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z What is crucial here is that the two conflicting results did not properly have equal status. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It gives great pleasure to the Editor to hear, from every quarter of our City, that universal health prevails in a degree equal to any former period. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z So the amount that I veered was equal to the deflection caused by the Coriolis force. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z It is not enough to give lip service and to believe in equal pay: there has to be a conversion, from the heart. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, one can still ask: all other things being equal, or else in the long run, or else on the average, what form of organization of human groups is best? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And the black people had to build within themselves much greater awareness that along with equal rights there had to be the bearing of equal responsibilities. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Into view, moving with a velvet tread that equaled his own, came what appeared to be a large cat. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Using “separate but equal” language that previewed the Court's infamous decision in Plessy v. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He concedes that outrage and hazard do not carry equal weight in his risk equation. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Earlier decisions had chipped away at the “separate but equal” doctrine, yet Jim Crow had managed to adapt to the changing legal environment, and most Southerners had remained confident that the institution would survive. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I look at the blue-and-yellow equal sign sticker on the window by the door right below the Jump & Grind sign. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z An equal number, she said, occupied the surrounding countryside. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Their work fed a tsunami of inquiry into the interactions between natives and newcomers in the era when they faced each other as relative equals. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The boy preserved worldly truism and matter-of-fact observations about the weather with equal zeal. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He and his older brother were the same height, equal matches by all societal standards now, but Kamau still had a way of looking at him that could make him feel so small. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z And then they start in on me with the story that we are all equal! The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z If the two ships had been of equal size, Hunt would have sailed with a crew of about twenty-two. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z On this particular Christmas, I was overjoyed to find a place where we belonged, where we could touch the merchandise and behave as though we were free and equal. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He or his disciples discovered the Pythagorean theorem: the sum of the squares of the shorter sides of a right triangle equals the square of the longer side. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As a Quaker, Anthony had been raised with the understanding that men and women were equal, a point of view she almost took for granted. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z As soon as he got the post, he offered to arrange the surrender of West Point to the British for £20,000, a sum equal to well over one million dollars today. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The concert is recognized today as a milestone in the struggle for equal rights. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z As the name implies, atonal music treats all notes and harmonies as equal and in fact tries to avoid melodies and harmonies that will make the piece sound tonal. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z We had not come to the meeting as supplicants or petitioners, but as fellow South Africans who merited an equal place at the table. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the evenings, man and boy watched the soccer match with equal delight. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, the Court had said that separate public schools for whites and African-Americans were not equal. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Thus, like an egg, the great, hairy, black and golden creature splits in two, each with an equal share of the family genome. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "Publicly rescue the Americans? Put a Chinese astronaut on Mars? Have the world see China as equal to the US in space? The State Council would sell their own mothers for that." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z And that meant every man was equal in the sight of Nature—with an equal chance. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I have dealt with many a murderer in my long service to the state, but never have I encountered the equal of this. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z It shows how far you get, x miles, when you run with a certain velocity, v miles per hour, for a time, t hours: vt = x; after all, miles per hour times hours equals miles. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z My mom isn’t always the best at picking up on my subtleties, but she knows that “mother” equals annoyed. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z We learned to spot these from the moment they sat down, for they were immediately friendly and treated us with the warmth and courtesy of equals. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z His eldest daughter’s alarm was equal to his own. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z "Thank you," I say, filling with equal parts excitement and worry. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “Would you give me the time?” said the sergeant, addressing himself to Mr. Pumblechook, as to a man whose appreciative powers justified the inference that he was equal to the time. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Thyon was grateful, even if he was resentful in equal—or greater—measure. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “One thing given in exchange for another thing of equal value.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Major seconds and thirds are larger in Pythagorean intonation than in equal temperament, and minor seconds and thirds are smaller. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “The parts must be equal,” my father said. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Now Stalin and the Communist Party nailed together a haphazard structure for a country that, in principle at least, treated men and women with equal rights. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z This is hard to believe when she has to tell him a million times how 2,700 miles divided by sixteen equals five months, give or take. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Before an item is recorded in a computer’s memory, the memory is in a disordered state, with equal probabilities for the two possible states. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Remember Mr. Browne’s November precept: “Have no friends not equal to yourself!” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Before returning to Rabelais, let’s consider two hanging wires of equal cross section. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The reason the truck was going so slowly was because an equal number of guys were behind it, pushing. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It was wrong of Okeoma to assume that he was one of those Englishmen who did not give the African the benefit of an equal intelligence. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Flora Baumbach's pudgy fingers, swift with a needle, were clumsy with a comb, but after several tangled attempts she ended up with three equal strands. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Seeking as always to put himself on equal footing with Jasper, Ged answered the question ignoring its ironic tone. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z How could “equal say” work when there were three of us and one small postcard? P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z By Luke’s math, this partnership wasn’t close to equal. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z But with every blow I land I feel another equal to it ring my own ears, my neck, the back of my head. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the women rejected the call for equal pay, because they believed it would be unladylike. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Fred shouted as the castle quaked again, and Harry sprinted by, elated and terrified in equal measure. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z And only in a story could you enter these different minds and show how they had an equal value. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z A few white hairs were all that separated him from baldness; his forked beard was equal parts white and grey, but always ragged. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They are equal and opposite, yin and yang. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Uncle said to Vonetta, “I’m your uncle, not your equal. Don’t you ever mouth off to me. Do you hear me, girl?” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z In modern schools, children learn of Pythagoras for his famed theorem: the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He had to reach out to the global pharmaceutical companies, to governments, to foundations, and educate them that all lives had equal value. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z And in a country where men and women had equal constitutional rights by law, letting girls into after-school flying clubs fulfilled Komsomol requirements, so they couldn’t be turned away. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The women in their beaded scarves and brightly patterned skirts are strong and equal to the men. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z He had promised his father that he would bring her back to Dome, but more and more he wondered if he was equal to the task. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was decided, in view of his possible failure to attract, to support him on either side with a nearly equal number of war horses. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z He was going among white people, so he would take his knife and his gun; it would make him feel that he was the equal of them, give him a sense of completeness. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z But at least Arobynn had an excuse for being equal parts tyrannical and doting. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Bear’s red beard seemed to glitter in the firelight, so that his face—despite the dark—was equal to any sun. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Though it is repetitious and - I am afraid to say - increasingly annoying to listen to, this technique soon accustoms our ears to expect equal weight in a tune’s two halves. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z About midnight—when the night is equal, as the elders say—my mom started to go into labor. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z But a description of a tree is not a tree, and a thousand paper kisses will never equal the feel of Olly’s lips against mine. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z In the modern West, we’re confident that prevention is better than cure; that hard work deserves reward; that no means no; that you are innocent until proven guilty, and that all men are created equal. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “No. It’s—I mean—when I say that, I mean we’re equal—” Dad sputtered around it. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “She says that two plus two can sometimes equal five.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z My teacher, Miss Carpenter, announced that the Supreme Court had ruled that separate was not equal. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The new Khmer have better words for eating, sleeping, working, stranger; all designed to make us equal. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "Why?" he repeated, with a puzzlement equal to my own. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Christians who could prove blood purity might live in dire poverty but could claim a certain amount of equal status with aristocrats. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z First he talked about our equal partner, Belgium. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A primordial black hole with an initial mass of a thousand million tons would have a lifetime roughly equal to the age of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Meggie mopped the rain off her face and looked back at him with equal reproach. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z That evening, he and Lombardy went over the endgame position, which consisted of both Bobby and Bronstein having a rook, a bishop, and an equal number of pawns. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Once again he expressed to him what, indeed, the Polish Government had already said publicly, that they were willing to negotiate with Germany about their disputes on an equal basis. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z They were, instead, figuring out how to be good and obedient—what I saw as failing to even explore any chance that they might deserve being equal to the white people. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z According to some, it’s the only equal relationship possible, for women. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z In case of attack, Tisquantum claimed, he could respond with an equal number of Indian troops—and the Pilgrims, who might be able to intimidate the enemy. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z When I rose from the bath and stepped into the robe Mandy held for me, I was no longer a scullery maid but the equal of anyone at Char’s ball. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Imagine that there is a large stadium filled with people and you want to know whether there are more seats, more people, or an equal number of both. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It indicated that victims of race discrimination could still state a claim under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which guarantees “equal treatment under the laws.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Here, for the first time, she saw blacks and whites treated as equals. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z “The two digits of every nine times table add together to equal nine. See? Fifty-four is five and four, and added they make nine.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Because equal temperament is now so widely accepted as standard tuning, musicians do not usually even speak of intervals in terms of ratios. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z A swift prescience with the strength of adrenaline flowed through him and heralded a day when he would speak to Bull Meecham man to man, as a friend and equal. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But it sounded Congolese in the way it rolled out with equal weight on every syllable—a pig in a sack—as if no single word wanted to take over the whole sentence. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I honestly don’t care if they give a million dollars to equal rights causes so the world can be better in the future. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Of equal importance to priority disputes is the naming of discoveries. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “In Camazotz all are equal. In Ca-mazotz everybody is the same as everybody else,” but he gave her no argument, provided no answer, and she held on to her moment of revelation. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z If the ship were to travel at the speed of light, every tick of the clock on board would equal infinite seconds on the ground. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z That night, and each night afterward, I separated the tobacco into equal piles and said to Steve, “Choose.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The tiger, who might think he’s equal to all those tigers in the jungle that his mama told him about, is quickly reminded to stay in his place. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, really? Well, if x is greater than or equal to zero, then x to the fourth power minus six times x squared plus nine equals the absolute value of x squared minus three.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The issue of the Eiffel Tower arose: What could Chicago do to equal that? The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “The feebleminded and the man of genius should not be equal before the law,” he wrote. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It occurred to me that mine and Mary Toy’s punishments never had been equal. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z However, the term “egalitarian” should not be taken to mean that all band members are equal in prestige and contribute equally to decisions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The mayor refuses to comment but his commissioner of police is suddenly everywhere talking tough about equal justice under the law. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Though he did not treat them as equals—he didn’t treat anyone as an equal, exactly—neither did he resort to the condescending friendliness of the wealthy. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I told them that years ago it would have been unheard of for a white student and a black student to be standing together, and learning together on an equal basis. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z The minority report argued that the Fourteenth Amendment was intended “to secure the natural rights of citizens as well as their equal capacities before the law.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z A large body, such as the earth or the sun, contains nearly equal numbers of positive and negative charges. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The challenge was to find words that equaled one dollar when you added up their letter values. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z Apparently, the end of Snow’s reign didn’t equal the end of his terror. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The teachers’ march that day would be remembered as a turning point in the struggle for equal voting rights. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z This suggestion may have been reassuring to those unfamiliar with the Court’s equal protection jurisprudence. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And remembering Kamala’s words, he was never servile to the merchant, but compelled him to treat him as an equal and even more than his equal. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z I stare at the scims in my hands, a matched set with intricate black etchings that probably have no equal in the Empire. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z No teacher had ever confided in me about anything to do with her personal life the way Miss Riley had just done, almost as if I were her equal. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It’s unparalleled, without equal, incomparable, nonpareil, unrivaled, one of a kind. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They drove toward the lake over the park’s rough roads at the pace of a funeral cortege and with equal gloom. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Mamá told us everyone was equal in the eyes of God and Papá told us we should respect everyone. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z The women were courageous, persistent, enthusiastic, indefatigable, and their protest against passes set a standard for antig;ovemment protest that was never equaled. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “In that case,” the doctor replied with equal calm, “give me back the bottle. You don't need it any more.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Now the humiliation of hearing Momma describe herself as if she had no last name to the young white girl was equal to the physical pain. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Above all, we want equal political rights, because without them our disabilities will be permanent. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Constitutional amendments guaranteeing African Americans “equal protection of the laws” and the right to vote proved as impotent as the Emancipation Proclamation once a white backlash against Reconstruction gained steam. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “We were brought up to believe that women were equal to men, and we thought that we should be allowed to go into the army, too,” Polina argued. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He wanted the horses to carry equal weights, proposing 126 pounds but leaving himself open to any weight Riddle wanted, so long as both horses carried the same. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Lately, however, this business about being equals started to bother me. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She met his eye, looking equal parts defensive and nervous, disappointed and defiant. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I am not equal to such overwhelming refinement. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Does a “shorter” or smaller bump equal softer or a lower pitch or both? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z I am equal to a baby and to a hundred-year-old lady. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Her solution was to insist on vertical seating—an imaginary line drawn from the front of an auditorium to the topmost balcony, giving both races separate but equal seating opportunities. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z But how could all be equal if some were favored? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Johnny almost worshiped him for his skill and almost loved him, because, ever and anon, he looked so much like Rab; but still it was only where horses were concerned they were equals. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the areas of the cross sections of the supporting wires are equal, the stresses in the wire, force divided by cross-sectional area, vary as the lengths of the wires. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The party, held in the banquet room of President Snow’s mansion, has no equal. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Next came legislation that guaranteed equal pay for equal work in public employment. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z He recorded what he saw and what he felt in equal amounts, as if he were balancing the great scales of observation and reflection. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z “Master Namer,” the Chancellor said with equal parts deference and trepidation. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Many whites at the ranch had accepted me as an individual, an equal, that I called them by their first names, instead of baas, and could joke with them. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw over and over again that we weren't living equal to the people on TV. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z "You'd think the royal sigil would be sufficient, but no. He makes his mother's House equal in honor to the king's." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I didn’t feel like his little brother so much anymore, I felt more like his equal. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “He had enough trouble to stop a locomotive. ... At equal weights, there’s nothing that wears racing plates that’s a mortal to beat him.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The nurses, trying to cheer them up, give them a cake studded with the number of candles equal to the number of days they’ve been living in the Slammer. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s beaming, like a first date automatically equals a couple’s trip to Universal Studios. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Put the zero back on, and twenty minutes times five days equals one hundred minutes. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z It was obvious that it ought to be divided into three equal parts. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “You’re welcome, Miss Grabby Hands. Aren’t you the science whiz? Don’t you know about forces and equal and opposite reaction and all that?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z He had also fought for equal rights for women. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Cos x = 1 when x = 0, so the whole expression equals 1/1 = 1. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Known as "front-line winged rockets," each of these missiles contained a warhead equal in power to the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z When you square a negative number, you still get a positive number: –2 times –2 also equals 4. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It was kind to its workers, and its people were all equal. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z A conversation at the table always equaled a change in barometric pressure. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z That made me realize that there on the train as well, we were not being treated as equals. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I felt a hundred conflicting things, the great bulk of which canceled out to equal cold and tired and not particularly interested in talking. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z She was a big woman, in stature almost equalling her husband, and corpulent besides: she showed virile force in the contest—more than once she almost throttled him, athletic as he was. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z When returning black soldiers demanded equal rights following World War II, the Klan’s popularity once again increased. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “I only went to sixth grade, but even I know twenty-nine plus two equals thirty-one.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z At the end of the room was the strangest throne Jason had ever seen—made of equal parts fire and water. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But it crushed me with hopelessness, for I wanted to write of the people in my environment with an equal thoroughness, and the burning example before my eyes made me feel that I never could. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Tsukiko, however, is one of the rare contortionists whose flexibility is equal in both directions. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “You’re a fool,” she said to him in a voice that was equal parts angry and sad. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z After I looked up the meaning of the words, I wrote the entire text in my note pad in tiny letters: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal...” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t wish to make a display of my feelings, but I have habitually thought of you more in the night than I am quite equal to.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “If language has any meaning,” Stanton wrote, “we have in these texts a plain declaration of the existence of the feminine element in the Godhead, equal in power and glory with the masculine.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Everything else being equal, she was glad to be going to visit her children. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Next time, let it be an opportunity to teach them about how God created us all equal.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z I read about racial segregation and black students fighting for equal rights. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z A whole lot of talk about grace and faith and mercy and salvation, which, to me, all just equaled shouting, clapping, and singing in a building built to be a sweatbox. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z Perhaps thirty men alive were his equal when he used his left. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z In theory, they were even given equal pay to men—an issue that wasn’t dealt with in law until 1963 in the United States and 1970 in the United Kingdom. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z She could never have been equal to her voice. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She dismissed his efforts, saying that she could spend an amount equal to 60,000 pounds of gold on a single meal. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z When one knows this about a man, it is impossible for one to hate him, but unless he becomes a man—becomes equal—it is also impossible for one to love him. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z You have earned the point and the bonus, and the boys are now equal to the girls.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Changing times equals more people like me coming to stay in white neighborhoods, standing in line at the carnival, wanting to see the doctor. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Gregor had thought the bats were like horses, but now he could see they were equals. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Kepler’s first two laws may seem a little remote and abstract: planets move in ellipses, and sweep out equal areas in equal times. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Though the Angkar says we are all equal in Democratic Kampuchea, we are not. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I count what we have: one box of pasta, one container of orange juice, and one loaf of bread equals three. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z A pie chart with equal slices in all areas of life for maximum happiness. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z At least the fight made him feel the equal of them. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “She would have suffered. My family would have never accepted her as an equal. You don’t order someone to polish your shoes one day and call them ‘sister’ the next.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Our much-needed manpower, in order to take Erudite headquarters, and an equal place in government, with us.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z With a voice that was equal parts youth and unquestioning command, the torchbearer barked, “What are you doing on this road?” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “Or exactly equal to nothing, if they don’t find him.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Make groups of equal length on each side, by putting a dotted note or rest in the box. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Your parents are totally proof that things are equal now. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The logical puzzle: In a fight between two perfect equals, how can one win? Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I enumerated the many times that we had brought our grievances before the government and the equal number of times that we were ignored or shunted aside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Seeing it all now—the beast matched with the sounds—Thomas couldn’t think of any nightmare that could equal this hideous thing coming toward him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z As if we had taken part in a game in which both roles were of equal importance. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It is arguable that 2 + 2 will equal 4 in any universe; and, surely, levers and balances would work in the same way in any universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And like Father, she was not afraid to talk to me like an equal. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z There followed an equal number of cheers and boos, a squabble ensued and fighting broke out. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Mark Antony loved women, and among women, Cleopatra had no equal. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The Horses were rather tongue-tied for they weren't yet used to being talked to as equals by Humans—grown-up Humans, that is. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z But need the angle of reflection be equal to the angle of incidence in any universe? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I said, “But it ain’t! Five times twenty equals one hundred.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z On a bright fall day when the sun lit up its scarlet leaves, you never saw anything to equal it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Peace without justice and equal opportunity is no Peace.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z In official games, the players step inside these booths to ensure that everything is exactly fair for both teams: equal temperature differences; air pressure; Link calibrations; connection to Warcross; and so on. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z If the two sticks cast shadows of equal length, that also would make sense on a flat Earth: the Sun’s rays would then be inclined at the same angle to the two sticks. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When the two weights were roughly equal, I was able to pull the rocks down and bring the battery up. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Justice Henry Brown explained that separate but equal was just fine. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “You guys want to switch squads so they’re all equal?” he asked. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing could have been achieved without Boxer, whose strength seemed equal to that of all the rest of the animals put together. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z We have to meet as equals, with some mutual understanding and candor, before my mission can even begin. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “Look . . . geometry .. . triangles . . . okay, isosceles triangles. These two legs, they look equal to you?” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He never looked at the title of a picture before going into a movie, and no matter what was showing he watched each scene with equal interest. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Not everyone, of course, starts with an equal chance of being cast in a Volpe play. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The real hero is Abraham Lincoln and the principles for which he lived—and died: freedom and equal rights for all Americans. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He imagined they might be friends, once they were equals. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Board of Education decision, the United States Supreme Court overruled the “separate but equal” laws once adopted in the 1896 Plessy v. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Wang Lung answered negligently as one speaks to a man who is scarcely an equal, “Good harvests—good harvests—” and he stepped with assurance inside the gate. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “In the gloomiest moments of the Revolutionary War,” he wrote in 1820, “I never had any apprehensions equal to what I feel from this source.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z And even though I never opened my mouth, I say, Thanks, becauseMissing I am not a mathematician— a + b seldom equals c. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z “I strongly urged that we should at once pool all our information, work together on equal terms, and share the results, if any, equally between us,” Churchill said of the meeting. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Um, I believe in the equal treatment of women,” I said, trying to say something important. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z They shuddered when they imagined the many ways the white power structure could punish them if they took a visible stand for equal rights. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In other cultures, people don’t believe that men and women should fight each other this way, but Azaan and I are equals. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “Then the male symbol where the ‘le’ equals ‘rx’? ‘Marx’? Does that make sense? Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z “Do black people in this country have equal rights?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z If we have little, and want for little, and we are all equal, we envy no one. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z He was a soft-spoken, politically sensitive, brilliant Zulu student, whose love for the English language probably equalled my own. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z These men flew and fought beside the women of the 586th as their equals, but there isn’t much on record about them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “Men are born and remain free and equal in rights,” it announced to the world. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Indian insistence on personal liberty was accompanied by an equal insistence on social equality. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z While the white settlers in Natal were happy to have cheap Indian labor, they were dead set against allowing Indians to live there as equals. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z That night I wrote in my diary: Today is the first time in my life I felt equal to white people. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t trouble yourself. It’s no exertion to me, but you don’t look equal to it.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z I start to feel exactly what I try to avoid feeling during basketball season—in love—and I’m equal parts happy and annoyed. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Why are there not equal numbers of each? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Fabian writes 3/10 equals point three hundred on the board. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z The protons have a positive charge and the electrons an equal negative charge. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It is small wonder that we look at the art in museums with equal casualness. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They wished to be seen as individuals, full and equal citizens who could not be told to leave or treated as second-class members of society. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z "We're not in Bengal anymore. There's no caste system in America. The Declaration of Independence made it clear: 'All men are created equal.' And we'll be changing 'men' to 'people' soon." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z When Bernabe Montoya’s doleful voice crackled over the walkie-talkie, the agent replied succinctly, thoroughly, and then absorbed the information, or rather, lack of information, from the sheriff with equal automatic aplomb. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hair was brown and grey in equal parts and she wore it tied behind her head in a widow’s knot. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Knew better,” corrects Jacqui, and I hit her hard enough to generate a warning glare, which I return with equal ferocity. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “You will now divide,” Snape went on, “into pairs. One partner will attempt to jinx the other without speaking. The other will attempt to repel the jinx in equal silence. Carry on.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The act, in effect, abolished poll taxes, literacy tests and other barriers to equal opportunity at the ballot box. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z A group in Summerton, South Carolina, had sued their school board in order to get better buses and facilities for the colored students—something equal to the white students. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z So figure two thousand five hundred lobsters equals a rebuilt engine for the Mary Rose. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z I’ll do whatever I have to do to keep feeling equal all the time. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Though we are all supposed to be equal, there are nonetheless three levels of citizenship in the village. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But Harriet never found its equal and devoted her life instead to poetry, eventually founding Poetry magazine, where she helped launch Ezra Pound toward national prominence. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He advocated separate but equal facilities and charged that government programs to overcome discrimination amounted to special privileges for blacks. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But I feel so good in the boots, my body relaxes, and without thinking I place equal weight on both feet. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Two dollars times twelve minutes equals twenty-four dollars. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Luckily, grand unified theories may provide an explanation of why the universe should now contain more quarks than antiquarks, even if it started out with equal numbers of each. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It is an equal partner in the emotional process. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “Surely you, of all people, understand. I have equal aptitude for Erudite as I do for Dauntless and Abnegation, after all.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z She was my first true female friend, a woman I met on equal terms with whom I could confide and share secrets. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon blacks were gathered at Quinn Chapel, celebrating the first-ever wage scale in Chicago that gave equal pay to black and white waiters. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z If every seat is filled and nobody is left standing, then the number of people and seats are equal. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z And the participation of Marina’s aviators in the war effort would help present a picture of the nation as equal in all ways. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z On the way back to church, Phyllis hands out equal amounts of sour suckers to each of us. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Madge watches while I write down nine times four equals thirty-six. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Franny saw that he was irritated, and to what extent, but, for the moment, with equal parts of self-disapproval and malice, she felt like speaking her mind. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z All this talk about how "equal" things are, yet he assumed I didn't do as well as he did? Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He wanted to share a marriage of equals, a relationship that would not interfere with her work on abolition and women’s rights. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Would Mercy’s scant strength be equal to this burden? The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “A guaranteed—and equal—place in whatever government forms after Erudite is destroyed, and full control over Erudite data after the attack. Clearly—” “What are you going to do with the Erudite data?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z You and Manny, who are equal in pretty much every way apart from race, could commit the same crime, but it’s almost guaranteed that he would receive a harsher punishment than you. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I said, “Five doubled equals ten, then adding a zero to ten equals a hundred.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z This often leads to some "tweaking" of the tuning in real performances, away from equal temperament. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Consider a map of ancient Egypt with two vertical sticks of equal length, one stuck in Alexandria, the other in Syene. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “We prove that the world can be like this room. It can be a safe and equal space for everyone. We just need to dismantle the walls of privilege and oppression.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z It could certainly make sure that everyone had equal wealth—but that would just add to the plague of boredom that afflicts the immortal. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Then he started talking about let a equal acceleration and let t equal time and suddenly he was scribbling letters and numbers and equals signs all over the blackboard and my mind went dead. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z They would even say that Venus herself could not equal this mortal. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “But this is groovy. Capitalism plus publicity equals monster commerce.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The equal number of pieces seemed to appease her, and she ate them in silence. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z For Locke and everyone before him, knowledge equals truth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And after my talk with Rose, I felt better about myself and I thought, Of course, Harold and I are equals, in many respects. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She felt completely comfortable in her presence, and the two of them talked to each other more or less as equals. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z “What are you saying? That I should feel sorry for the Scholars? That I should think of them as equals? We conquered them. We rule them now. It’s the way of the world.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The displacement of water is equal to the something of something. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Sleep belonged to the same category as swimming; both activities were necessary and dangerous in equal parts. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Except for the unison and the octave, none of the ratios for equal temperament are exactly the same as for the pure interval. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z That the velocity of a falling body equals the acceleration due to gravity multiplied by the time of the fall in seconds. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z And an infinite sum of zeros can equal anything at all—and everything at the same time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z And the two little girls might have looked like equals that night in the garden—like playmates—but they weren’t. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Recently a dear Southern friend instructed me passionately in the theory of “equal but separate.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z When it came to enjoying all the richness that life had to offer, Mark Antony and Cleopatra truly had no equals. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z He gazes at the man-made pond, which, his father had told Gogol during a phone conversation, he walked around twenty times each evening before eating his dinner, that it equaled a distance of two miles. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Nothing her niece did or tried could equal the violence done to her. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She had never equaled the feat of eating one a day as she had on the Musengezi. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Stella could barely breathe—Mrs. Spencer was not a tiny woman—but she hugged her back with equal measure. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z This is another reason that modes sounded very different from each other, although that particular difference may be missing today when chant is sung using equal temperament. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z It was just being what it was, a mindless, merciless star that would shine on whatever got in its way, beauty or horror, without prejudice, with equal heat. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z "Keep the fishpaste," said his traveling companion, and he rapidly divided the remaining food into two equal piles. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z His trident beard was purple, his flamboyant mustachios gold, his long curls equal parts of both. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The point here was that the Declaration of Independence contained the phrase “all men are created equal, ” whereas the American Constitution itself, albeit in weasel words, expressly allowed slavery. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Among them, surrounded by them, his feelings were the same as they had been as a girl: by equal measures fascinated and horrified. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The action of one has an equal and opposite reaction on the other. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But when she smiled a welcome to me, I thought her an equal to Bebe Daniels, my favorite film star. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Among his children, he was known for being hotheaded and unpredictable, but equal parts loving. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z And as such, he comes into this court under a handicap, notwithstanding our pretensions that all are equal before the law. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “Whatever the enemy may be planning, American science will be equal to the challenge,” Roosevelt wrote to Oppenheimer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z "Not the equal of the vintage you offered me the night of the tour-ney, but no more poisonous than most," he concluded, wiping his lips. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I look for an elephant, with equal parts dread and disappointment. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z In the few short decades since King’s death, a new regime of racially disparate mass incarceration has emerged in Chicago and become the primary mechanism for racial oppression and the denial of equal opportunity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I’m really not in the mood to divvy up everything into eleven equal parts, factoring in age, body weight, and physical output. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Using fairly straightforward tools of astronomy you can easily enough determine that the bulbs are of equal brightness and that one is, say, 50 percent more distant than the other. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z These two negatives do not equal a positive. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z It looks like a pie sliced into twelve equal wedges. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z She opened up the green carrying bag and put the corn on the table, dividing it into five equal shares. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z He, a poor shipwrecked man, had equal honor with her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z If his memory served him right, these were the pairs of bases that Chargaff had shown to occur in equal amounts. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z There was no tension here at all but a battle between equals, with Reb Saunders losing only a little less frequently than his son. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z But for a real tesseract, in four dimensions, all the lines would be of equal length and all the angles would be right angles. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He is behaving much as he does with his parents — he reasons, negotiates, and jokes with equal ease. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z But these well temperaments made all keys equally useful, not equal-sounding as modern equal temperament does. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I know you lived in a world where black folks were hosed and beaten and jailed and killed while fighting for equal rights, but you still managed to be, like, dignified and everything. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The interweaving, flowing lines of equal voices began to make way for a new and fashionable triumvirate in music: tune, accompanying chords, and supporting bass. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Each measure has four beats, four quarter notes equals one whole. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Sometimes I ask myself if my adventures, such as they are, equal experience. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Each number is the sum of the two numbers before it. Thirteen plus eight equals twenty-one.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The following day the students were given the same kinds of tests again, with questions that were different but of equal difficulty. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Alas, this means that 0/0 equals 2, but it also equals 3, and it also equals 4. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I would’ve sent the postcard anyway, but things went better when both thought they had an equal say. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “You wish to prove that I am the equal of any other?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He would be more than equal to these people in the foolish, great, wasteful house. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z They fought so that this could be a country where every man would be free and equal. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z To defeat an adversary who was your equal, maybe even your superior, it wasn’t necessarily enough just to give your all from start to finish. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The sandpaper was divided into exactly equal halves, and the twins fell to work with an eerie concentration that excluded everything else. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z An 1875 amendment to the state constitution provided for “separate but equal” schools for whites, blacks, and Indians, laying the foundation for discrimination. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z It would be nice if one day the number of apostrophes properly placed in it’s equalled exactly the number of apostrophes properly omitted from its, instead of the other way round. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z These were men of high standing and the regent received them courteously, but not obsequiously; he treated them on equal terms, as they did him. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I am equal to an airline pilot and a car mechanic. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Tats 2: “So, two hundred percent into you, fifty percent nerdy, I guess that equals one hundred and fifty percent worthy.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z The chemistry of an atom depends only on the number of electrons, which equals the number of protons, and which is called the atomic number. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Number 7, x equals 11. Number 8, x equals -1. Number 9, x equals 5.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The Professor lost no time in his questioning; her answer came with equal quickness:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z How can this be happening if we’re all equal in the eyes of God? Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Hence, all other things being equal, technology develops fastest in large productive regions with large human populations, many potential inventors, and many competing societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “That’s definitely long overdue,” Rowan told him—speaking not like an apprentice, but more like an equal, which irritated the High Blade. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Much racial bias, though, would operate unconsciously and automatically—even among law enforcement officials genuinely committed to equal treatment under the law. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The slave catcher allowed his prisoners an equal share of the food, a custom dating to his earliest days in the job. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Tonight he would script his own end with a performance that equaled his triumph at Ford’s. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “We have come down here to march for equal rights,” she said. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Whereas in England even abolitionists portrayed humble slaves on their knees pleading for freedom, in this coin designed for use in Africa, the English and the African are shown as nearly equal. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He told them that all men were born equal. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Me and you, we might be equals, but I’m more animal.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z “Newton’s third law. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z They were all truly equal in the eyes of God and man, and his apartment at least had the advantage of not requiring anyone to walk up ten flights of stairs. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Livingston considered himself an equal partner with Lawrence in the cyclotron’s early development. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She stops, and I realize that the Augurs must have forced her to face some foul hallucination, something equal to my nightmare battlefield. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “I apologize. I should not have doubted you,” he said with a respect one gives to an equal. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Even though a rapid pulse equaled excitement, it was pretty clear by Gran’s expression that she was not happy. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z All morning long, automobiles and special trains disgorged thousands and thousands of passengers from every corner of the nation and the world; the assembly of foreign dignitaries alone equaled a normal day’s attendance. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In theory, these naturalized citizens are equal in standing to those born in the United States. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “So what if people look more alike now? It’s the only way to make people equal.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Move the square an equal length at right angles to itself, and we have a cube. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And the white people all around them seemed to welcome them and treat them as equals. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In Asia, Japan’s leaders had designs of equal magnitude. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z On flatland, nothing could catch them, and even on hills and rocky terrain, there was nothing short of Araby close to their equal. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The New York Amsterdam News, our local weekly Negro newspaper, suggested that the United States was now going to treat Negroes as equals for the first time. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z There are none to equal them in Greek mythology, except those retold by the tragic poets. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The same amount of property would have an equal influence upon us if owned in the North. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Perch, meanwhile, was working himself up into a lather equal to his previous ones. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The matter was even worse because the two, almost equal in age, knew each other and, before Francis remarried, had frequently met for lunch or dinner to talk about science. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Take an equal volume of any two different gases and put them in identical balloons. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In fact, the sequence can be set to equal anything at all. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Now the others began to act out, and the sense of justice and desire for equal rights that Mommy and my father had imparted to us began to backfire. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The important element is that all of the parts or “voices” are equal, and there isn’t a single dominant melodic line. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z As early societies developed, those acquiring centralized power gradually established themselves as an elite, perhaps originating as one of several formerly equal-ranked village clans that became “more equal” than the others. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Frankie leaned over me, his voice quivering with equal parts anger and relief. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Even World War I had seen nothing to equal it. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The centaurs’ habits are not human-like; they live in the wild, refuse clothing, prefer to live apart from wizards and Muggles alike and yet have intelligence equal to theirs. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And in addition to the credits, my avatar received an equal number of experience points for obtaining the coins. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Zero wavelength equals infinite energy; zero and infinity conspired to break a nice, neat system of laws. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He called over a member of the Sandrouni family, who quoted something equaling about sixty-five American dollars. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The next step is to use that yardstick to divide each of the two lines into equal segments. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z With equal quickness, Falconer pulled the hood of his cloak forward again. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t think of herself as a reformer, but her religious beliefs led her to conclude that all people were equal. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z And, of course, he was jealous of her; her position in Nancy’s esteem, though of another order, had been at least equal to his. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Conger has promised them all an equal share of the more than $200,000 in reward money to be paid for the capture of Booth. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The improvement I would have made in years of playing tennis in the ghetto would not have equalled the improvement I made in those eight weeks with the squad. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z By any measure this is a lot of money—it equals the mortgage on my Seattle home—and the quoted price did not include airfare to Nepal or personal equipment. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z But Herbert Hoover had come in spouting equal optimism, buoyantly predicting that a day would soon come when poverty would be washed out of American life forever. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Three dollars and twenty-nine cents, plus fourteen pennies for the governor, equals three-forty-three altogether,” Nick said bemusedly. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But I am equal to her in years. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z He liked that she had spoken so forcefully, for once, about the cause; it was as if she had finally become an equal participant in the war effort. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z However, we saw that anything multiplied by zero equals zero! Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Altogether, his craft was a work of great skill, and Nhamo despaired of equaling it. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z David Petrakis My Lab Partner cuts his apple into eight equal wedges. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z On the surface it seems to be equal to my potential future in Baltimore, but there I still had a choice. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z None of this was his fault, but it wasn’t equal, either, and for any woman who lives by the mantra that equality is important, this can be a little confusing. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Anyway, none of them equaled the necklace Hattie had taken from me. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z "You'd think the royal sigil would be sufficient, but no. He makes his mother's House equal in honor to the king's." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “They each have an equal role in government; they each feel equally responsible. And it makes them care; it makes them kind. I think that’s beautiful.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I’d say it’s twenty-five percent blame for the kids, twenty-five percent blame for the parents, twenty-five percent blame for the building, and twenty-five percent blame for the environment—that equals a hundred percent failure! Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The small bands joined us, but sometimes armies of equal or larger strength would fight us. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Both prospects filled him with equal fear and depression. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “But that’s so elementary. Newton’s third law. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, he understood: this was work, and it was hard, but they were equal to it, all of them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She joined “the lecturing corps” as an agent of the American Anti-Slavery Society, earning ten dollars a week, an amount equal to about $300 in today’s dollars. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In its versatility and in the indispensable nature of its functions it has no equal. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It was more the commitment to service; he says he’d look with equal favor upon someone in the peace corps. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I bombed their roofs with acorns in equal number. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The heart of the question is whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities, whether we are going to treat our fellow Americans as we want to be treated. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It says, “Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Would the American Declaration of Independence hold as a self-evident truth that all members of the genus Homo are created equal? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “You have heard bits and pieces, I don’t doubt. I will tell you the truth of her. Though I fear I may not be equal to the challenge.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I wondered if white South African celebrities—including those who regarded themselves as liberal—would have deigned to treat me as an equal in a room full of whites. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z You must sentence him simply as an American, equal in the eyes of our legal system to every other American. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Until I could unlock his secrets, we were never going to be equals. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Only then was he the white man’s equal. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Give him a matchless mind for tactics, a background the equal of mine. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Laney blew kisses to the second floor, which were returned with equal enthusiasm. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z But he could see that Water Claire strode easily now along the path, her legs strong and equal, her feet sure in the soft leather sandals she wore. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “You must know where you are,” he replied with equal annoyance. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z The famous unsolved problems of the day were geometric: With only a straightedge and compasses, could you make a square equal in area to a given circle? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Since no man knew definitively which of the children were his, men showed equal concern for all youngsters. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z After three years at our junior high school, in a ghetto neighborhood that in-cluded many Asians, Blacks, Mexicans, and other white migrants from the south, we had ended up close to being social equals. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no mistaking the sound of a nun who was equal parts concerned, annoyed, and frustrated that she’d have to wade into the mud herself to save one of her more stupid students. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z With their victory, the people of Saint Domingue announced that the conflict between freedom and property was over: “All men are equal” meant that no men are property. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Arabic astronomy was highly sophisticated, and at least the equal of any Western astronomy until Copernicus—indeed, Copernicus may well have used technical solutions devised by Arab astronomers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The rush of having Dorian look only at her, talk only to her, treat her as if she were his equal and more hadn’t yet worn off. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Five days later, the Little Rock School Board published their statement saying that the district had been working on a plan to provide separate but equal opportunities for all the children in the city. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In fact, researchers seemed to agree that the grandchildren of privilege and of poverty would be on nearly equal footing. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z ‘You’ve had a nightmare. I looked over here and your mouth was open and you were groaning and shuffling your feet on the floor. I never saw anything to equal it.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z They cheered and booed me in equal amounts for a minute or so, enjoying my failure more than they had the song itself. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “I do not pretend to possess equal frankness with your ladyship. You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z “Ten plus one plus one equals twelve years, sir.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z The answer is that in the six degrees of separation, not all degrees are equal. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Boseman was not the most intelligent fellow but had a knack for anticipating Ridgeway’s wishes in a manner equal parts indispensable and eerie. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Not until he came as a friend and equal—not as a beggar. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In her rewrite of the Declaration of Independence, Stanton replaced the phrase “all men are created equal” with the words “all men and women are created equal.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z I don’t know if I’m strong enough to start a new life away from what are equal parts toxic and familiar. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He simply started over at a myriad myriads, setting 100,000,000 equal to one, and counting again, calling these new numbers, numbers of the second order. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z They were courteous, respectful and treated me as an equal. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The girls were given no special treatment, and were expected to be every bit the equal of the boys. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Now she’s less likely to actually punch someone since middle school punishments equal getting suspended and having to spend the day at home with her mom, but that’s probably for the best. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z The group divided into two roughly equal factions. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Head computer Margery Hannah went out of her way to treat the West Area women as equals, and had even invited some of them to work-related social affairs at her apartment. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Slaves fought with equal fervor over their tiny parcels at their feet. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Anthony borrowed money from friends and family, spent all of her savings, and raised subscription rates, but the newspaper still ended up $10,000 in debt, an amount equal to about $175,000 today. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Blacks could not take equal educational opportunity for granted. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z I answered, as I am sure most of you would, that I think of the races as equal. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z All else being equal, immigrants were hired before blacks. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I was reading about King Arthur and liked how he had a round table which made everyone feel equal when they sat in a circle. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Infinity and zero are equal and opposite—and equally destructive. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Father made a will. Left everything equal to me and you.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Washington is the capital of the United States of America, or 1 centimetre equals approximately 0.39 inches. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Ferguson, the Court established the doctrine of “separate but equal”—a legal fiction that protected the Jim Crow system from judicial scrutiny for racial bias. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “If you consider that sort of gracelessness equal to swordsmanship...what sort of fighting do you do, Captain Westfall?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z As long as Linus had not told us the answer, we should get equal credit if we announced it at the same time. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Then I ladled out equal portions into two mugs and slid one over to Conner. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z Booth seethes at the outrageous notion that slaves be considered equal citizens of the United States. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The court agreed and divided the original Lacks plantation into two plots “of equal value.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He declared to the people that he did not wish to rule over them; he wanted a people’s government where all would be equal. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Let’s start with the positive correlation: books in the home equal higher test scores. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Even if we weren't in charge, we had to be equal. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She also believed in action movies, weight training, the power of makeup, memorization, equal rights, and the idea that YouTube videos can teach you a million things you won’t learn in college. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The main house was the equal of the old one, but it was sturdier and had hot water in the bathrooms. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Then suddenly she declared, with the equal measures of disbelief and delight as the night before, “There’s an American flag on the moon, boy!” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Still and all, two cakes weren’t anything like equal to the trouble Miss Love went to on the day before the funeral. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I hadn’t meant for it to come out as sharply as it did, but it wasn’t a pleasant experience being reminded that your education level equaled that of a ten-year-old. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Its utopian aim is to give equal opportunities to all people. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “It is time for Illinois to recognize the colored women as a political equal,” said the president of the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The way they responded to me made me feel equal to the white reporters. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I know all white people can’t be bad, ’cause God made us equal. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z True love includes equal parts good and bad, but true love sticks around and doesn’t run off to Vegas with a podiatrist. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z I liked it better when Bran and I were equals. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was, he realized, simply that black women were not threatening to her, were not equal rivals. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z If you love me, I wrote, please, Sir, show me I am equal, equal in every way. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z At about ten or twenty thousand million years ago, it would have a minimum size, which was equal to the maximum radius of the history in imaginary time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Spaulding proved more than equal to the task; his business sense rivaled that of Buck Duke. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Jon Snow was staring at him, a look equal parts horror and fascination. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z By choice I am ruled by conscience rather than the authority of priests I consider my equals. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Would he be struck dead if he made himself the equal of others, even in fancy? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Samuel had no equal for soothing hysteria and bringing quiet to a frightened child. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Seventy-five years, unless you worry yourself to death first. Okay. Fifty-two multiplied by seventy-five equals...” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z He would have to remember that he was no longer in Winterfell, where only the king stood higher; here, he Was but first among equals. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The proud and the meek, the arrogant and the humble are all made equal on Ash Wednesday. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He had always treated me as an equal, but I could see he was trying to decide whether to protect me from this thing or to share it with me. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Or the Caste System. Constantly proposed, constantly rejected. There was something called democracy. As though men were more than physico-chemically equal.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “Thoughtful planning, a belief in equality and diversity. Truly seeing everyone as an equal. They passed that on to my mother, and she passed it on to me.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The All-in Conference called for a national convention of elected representatives of all adult men and women on an equal basis to determine a new nonracial democratic constitution for South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Five people in front, plus four on my right side, including me, plus six on my left equals fifteen. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z “And of course, just to be fair and equal, I have to tell you that my son has a nice name as well.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “If this should ever happen in the future, you make them understand that they wouldn't like to be treated that way and that we're all human beings created equal. Is that clear?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z ‘Always happens with men. They promise friendship. They promise to treat you as an equal. In the end, all they want is to possess you.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z That said, at least an equal number of observers couldn’t get enough of “the upstart.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Here she is doing something I could never even dream of doing with my two legs of equal length. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z "Tell me," he said, giving each word equal emphasis. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z In Moscow, Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, spoke with equal conviction about the advantages of communism and the Soviet system. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Boys, boys, boys! Hasn’t anyone told you labor is shared equally among equals? If one person has to walk, everyone has to.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A number of YouTube videos provide comparisons that you can listen to, for example comparisons of just intonation and equal temperament, or comparisons of various temperaments. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z And then wouldn’t I feel worse, less than equal? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Out there or inside my head, it’s an equal darkness. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He despises their politics, too, the way they power over one another, the way might equals right. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Nonetheless, Regina thought he should be afforded equal respect and attention. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But someone figured out that if you put in ‘time equals’ and then a letter, like t equals k, they wouldn’t charge you,” he said, laughing at the memory. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z But this time, in the settlement that followed, black rights to equal wages were left on the cutting-room floor. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Even then, he treated me like an equal and not some kid. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Nothing less than depriving him of life or liberty will secure peace to Virginia, as motives of resentment actuate his conduct to a degree equal to the total destruction of the Colony…. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z And, by the way, you and the guy who imprisoned you are now automatically equal. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z It was a scale from one to ten, where one equals “mild tremor” and ten equals “erupting volcano.” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z There are no lobsters like these—simply boiled, with no fancy sauces, only melted butter and lemon, they have no equals anywhere. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Only Abilene’s grandmother spoke to him as Abilene did, as one equal to another. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z It would be lovely if we were all created equal, but the fact is we’re not. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Through no fault of her own, she was no longer his equal with codes and ciphers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Now imagine that line divided into a thousand equal widths. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He said to Renfield in a tone which did not surprise me at the time, but only when I thought of it afterwards—for it was as of one addressing an equal:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Libby determined that the rate at which cosmic rays create CH is roughly equal to the rate at which it decays. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z If our new number were equal to the first number on the list, it would also have a first digit of 3—but we can easily prevent that from happening. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Which is where I came into the picture, thrilled and anxious in equal parts. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z There is little to equal ahull terrier’s grin, however charmingly presented, for sheer astonishing ugliness. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In spite of this, equal temperament works fairly well, because most of the intervals it gives actually fall quite close to the pure intervals. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Jane Fairfax’s perception seemed to accompany his; her comprehension was certainly more equal to the covert meaning, the superior intelligence, of those five letters so arranged. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z They treated me like I was an equal, like I belonged with them. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When he was not working, he wrote postcards, scores of them, perhaps hundreds, to the most powerful men in the city, in a voice that presumed he was their equal in social stature. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Hairwoman: “Do you tell your math teacher you don’t believe that three times four equals twelve? Well, Hawthorne’s symbolism is just like multiplication—once you figure it out, it’s as clear as day.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z They distribute themselves in almost precisely equal parts, half to the departing queen, half to the new one. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z For seven years the two friends had been inseparable, each, by virtue of the rarity of similar and equal sensibilities, irreplaceable to the other. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “I want the company of my equals,” Jasper said. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Those he challenged fired back with equal ferocity. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z It was as if these memories were contained in a painful wound that had been nursed and ignored in equal measure. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z It also leads many other music traditions to prefer tunings other than equal temperament, particularly tunings in which some of the important intervals are based on the pure, simple-ratio intervals of physics. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z She had been hired not as William’s equal but essentially as his assistant, at roughly half the pay. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Like at an all-you-can-eat buffet, or at the DMV, where her mother sometimes dragged her, and the workers looked equal parts smug and furious. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z In part this new skepticism reflected the superior technical knowledge of his official overseers, who now included trained physicists with knowledge of nuclear physics that equaled or even exceeded his own. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z There was no contradiction in the bold claim made by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal” if Africans were not really people. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Even though they worked as equals with the men, the women did not receive this sum because, except for widows, they were not considered heads of family. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z To live equal in a country that's supposed to be the land of the free. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z They are not equal to their masters, of course, but they are members all the same. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Begone! I do break my promise; never will I create another like yourself, equal in deformity and wickedness.” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z If the two areas were exactly equal, we would have a cylinder, not a cone. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But nobody was certain whether their years were equal to each other or not, because nobody had ever thought to keep track, that Jinny knew of. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z For a while it took ten paper dollars to equal one silver dollar, then twenty, then forty. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “My bride is here,” he said, again drawing me to him, “because my equal is here, and my likeness. Jane, will you marry me?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Divide the class into four equal parts, one group chanting and clapping the “melody” rhythm and the other three chanting and clapping the ostinati. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Next in order came a few mortals so excellent in their art that they almost equaled the divine performers. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z In the Age of Sugar, when slavery was more brutal than ever before, the idea that all humans are equal began to spread—toppling kings, overturning governments, transforming the entire world. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Zero and infinity are two sides of the same coin—equal and opposite, yin and yang, equally powerful adversaries at either end of the realm of numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The first is that of the 28 percent who got inoculated, an equal number were from the high-fear and the low-fear group. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If we examine the shadow of a cube in two dimensions, we notice that not all the lines appear equal, and not all the angles are right angles. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Twenty fifth graders in the other class plus twenty-one in Mr. Fabian's equals forty-one. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z With equal discretion, the committee assured Burnham and Root that ultimately they would direct the design and construction of the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z That means everyone in the village is equal. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Presently, trying to show himself an equal of this polite disdainful youth, he added, “I suppose you weren’t, when you first came.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z “Woman has shown equal devotion with man to the cause of freedom and has stood firmly by his side in its defense...,” she loudly read. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The foundation of self-government was that all men were free to voice their opinions and equal in their value as citizens. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Howard would surely appreciate a relatively low and equal impost. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The only one that is commonly used is triplets, which divide a note length into equal thirds. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The very concept of injustice rests upon a premise of equal claims, and this boy here today makes no claim upon you. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The second person, believing that a woman’s right to an abortion trumps any other factor, would likely argue that no number of fetuses can equal even one newborn. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z As though they knew already that for each tremor of pleasure they would pay with an equal measure of pain. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z If it bothers you that the ratios in equal temperament are roots, remember the pure octaves and fifths of the harmonic series. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z All men were free and equal and this was the foundation of government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z OK, “hepatic” equals “liver.’The liver’s job is to filter the blood. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I also forgot what I learned in science class: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The gracefulness of the slender fishing boats that glided into the harbor in Dakar was equaled only by the elegance of the Senegalese women who sailed through the city in flowing robes and turbaned heads. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Palsied, crippled, catatonic, spastic, Trapis tended them all with equal and unending patience. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It was like knowing that two plus two equaled four, like knowing how to breathe. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z And then, on the twenty-ninth move, with the position equal, Fischer engaged in one of the most dangerous gambles of his career. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I do not yearn to be their equal. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Kentucky that racially biased strikes violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In the Belmont grandstand, which, if stood on end, would nearly equal the height of the new Empire State Building, every seat was booked. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Jonathan Harker has asked me to note this, as he says he is hardly equal to the task, and he wants an exact record kept. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Like I said, basketball season equals war, and my family has the dirtiest tactics. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z It became clear quickly enough that though I was unequal to Danny in breadth, I was easily equal to him in depth, and this seemed to please Reb Saunders enormously. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I tried to find the spot where the two rivers’ currents seemed equal— where they met to form the bay. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Troy Female Seminary, established in 1821 by Emma Willard, was the first secondary school in the country to provide women with an education equal to that offered to men. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Of equal importance in wars of conquest were the germs that evolved in human societies with domestic animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Surely it was more than happy coincidence that the price of admission—“fifty cents, straight up,” remembers one former bug boy—was precisely equal to the pay for galloping a horse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It was almost equal to the dinner spread from the night before, which made sense, since it was Suheyla’s first opportunity to feed Eril-Fane in over two years. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He does not own slaves nor believe in slavery, but he does not believe that the Negro, “in the present stage of his development,” can be considered the equal of the white man. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Seven decades later, when Pizarro held his victory celebration in Qosqo, it was equal in grandeur to any city in Europe. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Real life was lived like doing a math problem: one and one always equaled two. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Rate times time equals distance is not a universal law; it doesn’t apply under all conditions. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z This law tells us that for every action there is a reaction which is equal and opposite in direction. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Hence the laughter of the women to whom he made proposals, the practical joking of his equals among the men. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Opposite p., left: When the sun is not directly overhead, shadows of equal length are cast. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And when she reaches Westeros, and meets you for the first time, you will meet as equals, man and woman, not queen and supplicant. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Yes I do. He thinks white people and black people should be equal and able to live in the same neighborhoods and go to the same schools.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z When he said no, my morale skyrocketed, for I suspected that we now had the answer to the riddle of why the number of purine residues exactly equaled the number of pyrimidine residues. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z If she could make their marriage a true marriage of equals, she was willing to pour herself into it completely, the same way she poured herself into her children. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Take off the zero, and two times five equals ten. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z A chronic fear of being slighted made him avoid his equals, made him stand, where his inferiors were concerned, self-consciously on his dignity. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z She answered with equal indifference and brevity, and the other said no more. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Ancient objects produced by black hands . . . refined by those black hands with results that no human hand today can equal. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She insisted on walking to the village, going where the men hung out, talking to the men as equals. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z For centuries it stood on equal ground with its neighbors, the rising Maya states to the east and Teotihuacan to the north. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As Alexander stated: “If we know anything, it is that if virtues do not equal powers, the powers will be misused.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Although Betty and her friends had certain rights, women in the United States were still not completely equal; their images were used to sell things. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z At the moment when life as he had known it changed forever, Alex Morales was behind the counter at Joey’s Pizza, slicing a spinach pesto pie into eight roughly equal pieces. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z This story revolved around the premise of creating a utopia where everyone is treated fairly and is completely equal. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z "Then if Sam and I are equal, why won't you kiss me?" Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z The robust corn in the fields, already two feet high, pointed to an exuberant harvest; with equal force the ruined territory had advertised reckonings to come. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Weigh equal quantity of sugar and keep by. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Each seemed a good and bad course in equal measure. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “Pardon me,” I said, with equal politeness, “but I have a special reason for wishing to know who purchased it.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Every trade he made was for something of approximately equal value—it wasn’t very unfair to any of the individuals he was trading with. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z He was a man of patience and fortitude, who spoke slowly and clearly as though every word was of equal importance. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I could imagine the two paths with equal clarity. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Many years later, when she began to feel she was the equal of her great-grandmother, Fernanda doubted her childhood vision, but her mother scolded her disbelief. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z So doth Christ in His mercy often supply courage and industry equal to adversity, that His creations might meet their travails. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He joined others in saying that equal, if not more, credit also goes to another person who had begun to turn tragedy into redemption. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Conceivably, adenine equaled thymine because of a yet undiscovered role in the ordering of the bases. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z In other words, Stanton argued, the Bible says that woman is not subordinate to man, but equal in every way. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “How can woman’s position be changed from that of a subordinate to an equal,” she wrote, “without opposition, without the broadest discussion of all the questions involved in her present degradation?” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Shackleton hauled on his end of the rope, but one man’s strength was not equal to the force of the ocean pulling the floes apart. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The same infinite sum of zeros can equal 0 and 1 at the same time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The committee leadership argued that women belonged as queens of the domestic domain, rather than equals who had a role in the world at large. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z There was no stratagem that he was not equal to, no danger that he could not foresee. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “All men are equal,” he insisted in 1716—exactly sixty years before the Declaration of Independence. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z In the Meno Socrates persuaded an uneducated slave boy that he already knew that the square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The room smelled of sickness, a cloying odor made up in equal parts of stale sweat and medicine. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But one thing that the new government got right was that it gave boys and girls a completely equal education. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Both she and Jamie could travel on the leftover pass since two half fares equal one whole. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Good institutions are not a random variable that could have popped up anywhere around the globe, in Denmark or in Somalia, with equal probability. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Since each atom is electrically neutral, the number of protons in the nucleus must exactly equal the number of electrons in the electron cloud. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1954, black and white youth unemployment rates in America were equal, with blacks actually having a slightly higher rate of employment in the age group sixteen to nineteen. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Sold separately, we are greeted with an equal mix of curiosity, civility, and resignation. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He will keep drawing—and by the end of his life the number of drawings will equal the number of paintings—but by calling himself an artiste-peintre he means he’s not just a draftsman. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He watches her with equal attentiveness as they traverse the shelves of timepieces in varying stages of construction. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I could not understand how muntu could refer to a living person or a dead one with equal precision, but Nelson just shrugged. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But whatever it was he scented or imagined showed equal cunning, and never appeared. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z L’Hôpital’s rule states that the value of the fraction was equal to the derivative of the top expression divided by the derivative of the bottom expression. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Being in this crew of seven...I’m not sure what to do. I’m not used to being one of so many, well, equals. I feel like I’m failing.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “And you,” she said to Feral with equal scorn. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Roosevelt believed that every effort should be made to give each person an equal chance of finishing the expedition alive. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z He talked about the slave who protested when Denmark had said that all men were equal. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z "I think it's unfair that women must parade around like peacocks and men do not. There should be an equal effort." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “Too much competitive spirit, sir. Clean forgot. Sweat equals success.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z "No, let's just finish it. The groosling's getting old anyway, and the last thing we need is to get sick off spoilt food," I say, dividing the food into two equal piles. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Class contradicts their assumptions about the American dream, equal opportunity, and the reasons for their own successes and even failures. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Besides, those little shorthand symbols in the book my mother showed me seemed just as bad as let t equal time and let s equal the total distance. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Only Ultima equaled them in respect for the life in the plant. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is time those of the prophecy became of one journey, of one purpose, of one mind. All, are equal here.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “But you don’t know it equal to me. You must have been under lock and key, dear boy, to know it equal to me,—but I ain’t a-going to be low.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “The zero becomes a ten...minus three, equals seven...and the other zero becomes a nine, minus seven...so it’s one dollar and twenty-seven cents!” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z He leaned against the wall, and the darkness outside was equaled by the darkness inside his mind. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The poles I made of equal length, using fire to cut them as well as a stone knife which caused me much difficulty because I had never made such a tool before. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Before death, I told myself, I would get to enjoy just one day of being equal and feeling equal. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Tom Bolles was sure now he had a freshman crew at least equal to that of the previous year. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z We would still work together, only the ANC had to appear to be the first among equals. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re right-handed, man. Your right hand is the strongest. I’m giving you equal power, so your punches will be deadly from both sides.” The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Being true friends they gave me sensible advice an compassionate sympathy in roughly equal amounts. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He had the foresight to understand and accept that all the people of South Africa must, through negotiations and as equal participants in the process, together determine what they want to make of their future. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He remembered a time when they’d been of equal skill—though that had been long ago. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z To demean him personally would be to demean all other officers of equal or lesser rank. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I figured out that each angle has to be about 51 degrees to have seven equal pie pieces. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z “It was a bug in the software. You could put in t equals k and sit there forever.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z What Bhaskara and others realized was that when you square a positive number, you get a positive number back; 2 times 2 equals 4, for instance. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The beats are so regular, in fact, that they can be timed; for equal temperament they are on the order of a beat per second in the mid range of a piano. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Even teachers were respectful of the now quiet and aging seniors, and tended to speak to them, if not as equals, as beings only slightly lower than themselves. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z One and one and one and one doesn’t equal four. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps we should stay on in Cambridge to solve other problems of equal importance. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z It put her on equal footing with the other female supervisors and—theoretically, at least—with men of the same rating, and it afforded her a degree of center-wide visibility. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “The square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z But Nicole had found it powerful; it had made her angry and afraid in equal measure. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z As we played with Miss Lisa’s children up till then, there had been few reminders that we were not considered their equals. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Once she crossed the threshold of Building 1244, she entered a world of equals, and she refused to behave in any way that would contradict that belief. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z |
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