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• n  a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced
• n  essential equality and interchangeability
• n  qualities that are comparable

• Even war criminals usually go to the trouble of claiming some moral justification for their crimes, some moral equivalence with their enemies.
• Some believe that, by transitioning immediately to the plight of displaced Palestinians, Obama drew a moral equivalence between the Holocaust and Palestinian displacement.
• How you get equivalence between the two is baffling.

• equality
• equation
• par
• comparison
• compare
• comparability

• nonequivalence

News & Articles

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• AWMA Joins FDA to Discuss Regulatory Decisions Regarding Substantial Equivalence Pathway
  AWMA's Anne Holloway participated Tuesday in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) conference call with FDA Center for Tobacco Products Director, Mitch Zeller to discuss the newly released multiple regulatory decisions related to the agency's review of tobacco product applications through the substantial equivalence (SE) pathway.
  June 27, 2013 - awmanet.org
• Lorillard Gets FDA Approval for New Cigarettes
  The cigarette manufacturer is the first to gain regulatory approval to market new cigarettes under the substantial equivalence (SE) pathway.        
  June 26, 2013 - The Motley Fool
• Lorillard downgraded to Sell from Underperform at CLSA (pre-open)
  CLSA downgraded Lorillard based on increased menthol concerns following the FDA's response to tobacco substantial equivalence applications. Price target lowered to $36 from $42.
  June 26, 2013 - Theflyonthewall.com via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Jean-Claude Juncker in Reuters (press release)
  Financial markets shouldn't make the mistake of establishing an equivalence between Greece and Spain,Juncker told Reuters on a state visit to Norway.
• Barack Obama in BusinessWeek
  I am satisfied that Telstra has met the equivalence tests in its licence condition and has sufficiently rectified the problems I identified in January, including handheld handset coverage, customer information provision and the availability of... Stephen Conroy http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Conroy&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEmgnHmq4NK80850ycFRQzXHEP8_w The Age http://www.google.com/url?q=http://business.theage.com.au/telstra-gets-nod-to-shut-down-cdma/20080416-26g5.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNH-QFn5dYKzXVAqirk2DxyJA0_aMw Apr 15, 2008 33859 43232 equivalence I was very blunt," Obama said. "This is not an issue where you've got two parties of moral equivalence who are having an argument. This is a situation where you have a belligerent nation that engaged in provocative and deadly acts."