1.   Indeed Bourdieu is wont to speak of functions or their functional equivalent.

2.   Neither the provision of contemporary hardware or a functional equivalent is trivial.

3.   Archipelago is the functional equivalent of Amazon.com for selling stocks.

4.   Albright attended only one recent meeting of the National Economic Council, the functional equivalent of the National Security Council, and that was on Japan.

5.   But by exerting an attractive or repulsive force on all matter, it would be the functional equivalent of the impossible machine.

6.   But what if the new economy can have the functional equivalent of a financial panic, not in the financial markets but in business investment?

7.   Most recently, he served in a role that was the functional equivalent of chief financial officer.

8.   The functional equivalent of foot binding has long been with us.

9.   The Lisa computers at Computer Works all were upgraded to the functional equivalent of the Mac Plus.

10.   The product has always been the functional equivalent of MS-DOS -- and more.