However, the dā element is not so simply equated with "earth" according to John Chadwick.

'Anti-government' has at times been simply equated to being 'anti-national'.

Nostalgia, not to be equated simply with the remembrance of things past, is better understood as an abdication of memory.

Fine debating ought not to be equated simply to racking up points in a basketball game.

"It is really dangerous stuff," said Representative Bill McCollum, Republican of Florida, denying crack can be simply equated with cocaine powder.

In consequence some human beings appear to be more like Jesus (who is simply equated with God) than are others, in that they share his maleness.

Too often the term is simply equated with the cinema of social commitment, or of recognizable "reality," most often about the poor and the misbegotten.

Marx himself never simply equated capitalists with their character masks; they were human beings entangled in a certain life predicament, like anybody else.

Primary responsibility for raising children cannot be simply equated with primary responsibility for harming children.