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To hold a position such as his, looked up on by multitudes, the Pope is almost equal to being one of the most powerful men in the world.

Addressing the high level meeting with senior officers held here other day, the Managing Director highlighted importance of the event in order to acknowledge the valuable contribution of Pakistani expatriates, who are remitting foreign exchange of around 20 billion US$ annually through legal means, which is almost equal to realization of our export target.

The companies in Kapital's ranking 2016, which the paper has published for the eighth straight year, are those making the highest annual turnovers, being almost equal to Macedonia's GDP.

I use the word "forgotten" because they are unlike the SNP politicians who are willing to stand up to the Westminster government in reaction to vicious cuts that have created untold misery and hardship, with record homelessness almost equal to third-world counterparts.

Investments banks in Europe have achieved results almost equal to their US peers because of cost cutting and strong trading revenues.

Sales of new cars in the first three quarters of this year are up 35.97 percent from a year earlier to 13,138,400, almost equal to sales for the whole of 2009 -- 13,644,800.

Currently, such a crime is gaining momentum that is almost equal to gun, drugs, and diamond trafficking.

By commenting the formation of the opposition front, Darko Janevski from Nova Makedonija estimates that after this, Crvenkovski's chances of defeating Gruevski are almost equal to zero.