Books supplemented, perhaps equaled in importance the manual alphabet, as a means of teaching language.
But even if--imagining a man quite exempt from all influences, examining only his momentary action in the present, unevoked by any cause--we were to admit so infinitely small a remainder of inevitability as equaled zero, we should even then not have arrived at the conception of complete freedom in man, for a being uninfluenced by the external world, standing outside of time and independent of cause, is no longer a man.
As Keaton pulled her close, the air was filled with a deep steady roll of thunder that equaled the sound of a locomotive.
In 2004 that equaled 314 million metric tons of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere just from the United States.
Quite a number of crack regiments were recruited there, regiments whose battle record is surpassed by none, and equaled by few.