It hardly seems the political equivalent of biting the bullet.

When it began last fall, it was the political equivalent of holy war.

His defection in 1990 was the political equivalent of an earthquake.

In the meantime, give Brown his due: he may have just carried out the political equivalent of a successful suicide bombing.

It is the political equivalent of saying the emperor has no clothes.

Standing next to Bush and oil tycoons is the political equivalent of having a fat friend.

But why have so many people recently decided to do the political equivalent of going to bed without supper?

IT was the political equivalent of a sneak attack.

A cruel system, Peggy had always thought, the political equivalent of putting a man in the stocks for four years.

It is also the political equivalent of a mutual aid society.