| That's the way he characterised your approach and he said that was akin to blackmail. |
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| The two cannot go together, and is akin to yoking a horse and a camel together. |
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| They have combined excellent fertility with good production and their breeding ability is akin to British Friesians. |
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| If the committee determines a lawmaker has committed wrongdoing, it may send the lawmaker a letter of reproval, akin to a rebuke. |
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| Winstone proclaims his love for West Ham as he tops up his tan by a Spanish pool, looking something akin to an orange Smart car. |
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| His gentle vocals and picturesque lyrics are akin to floating down a lazy river. |
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| Since the collapse of Enron in January 2002, maintenance has become more akin to life support. |
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| In fact, the Chinese model is akin to the Gandhian scheme of decentralised development. |
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| Roughly speaking, such a feat is akin to picking up a solitary dime with a clumsy front-end loader. |
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| When it comes to knocking the stuffing out of rival teams, Hearts are becoming something akin to specialists. |
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| For those on the wrong side of the law, the 1950s were seemingly akin to the early days of penal settlement. |
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| My new sisters were truly beautiful in their black khimar, and a light akin to saintliness shone from their faces. |
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| This gives it a unique character, more akin to a board game such as chess than to a normal card game. |
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| At times, the Cowboys are akin to a full-court press with the pressure they bring on offenses. |
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| It was a full-frontal assault more akin to the unscrupulous skulduggery of a US presidential campaign. |
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| Expect your first time to feel akin to being strapped to a dodgy roller skate in the middle of a quarry. |
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| Without having read his comments, something akin to that feeling always propelled me on. |
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| But within the Labour tribe, it is akin to smashing a sacred tablet of stone. |
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| It's ascribing sinister motives to the FBI before anything remotely akin to that has been proven. |
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| The limestone pavement gives the island a character akin to the Burren with a similar flora. |
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| The gray boy's clothes even looked aged, appearing to be akin to medieval robes. |
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| In the Allegro assai moderato we have an impression of impish playfulness that is very much akin to Gade's own inventiveness. |
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| The way he strokes the ball around a football pitch is akin to the way his compatriot van Gogh stoked a paintbrush over a canvass. |
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| For the most part, the album, like its predecessor, gives a warm glow, akin to talking rubbish over a couple of cans with your mates. |
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| The Karakalpaks, who live in the desert south of the Aral Sea, have a separate language and tradition more akin to Kazakh than Uzbek. |
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| Current management thinking largely assumes that a well functioning organisation is akin to a well oiled machine. |
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| Unlike the more cursive style of contemporary scribes, this hand is akin to a conventional liturgical script. |
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| It's akin to cell phones adding all sorts of new functionality and services. |
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| The orange and white striped jet fighters would weave in and out of formations with skill akin to that of ballet dancers. |
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| A good, substantial meal, perhaps more akin to first-rate home cooking than wildly fancy restaurant food, but none the worse for that. |
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| The Vajrayana sect took this a step further and introduced female divinities to Buddhist worship akin to Hinduism. |
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| His stay in Rome then would have been less a Wanderjahr and presumably more akin to a business trip. |
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| It could be a marsupial rat or mole or something opossumlike, or a rodent, insectivore, or even a primate akin to a tarsier or loris. |
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| Unkind souls may consider that this will be akin to filling an empty space with a hole, but I disdain such cattishness. |
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| Still, getting on with ordinary office routine and procedure, we suspect, was akin to walking on eggshells. |
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| Replaying breakup or accident scenes heightens their sentimental power, akin to repeatedly ripping the scab off a wound. |
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| I have found personally that my visualisations are more akin to waking dreams, the type that can be superimposed upon my conscious sight. |
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| If residents strengthen the city's identity, they will be ready one day to leave the mainland and form a city-state akin to Singapore. |
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| This preparation generates rhythmic activities of the hypoglossal nerve that are considered to be akin to both eupnea and gasping. |
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| Playing these games hours on end is akin to banging your head on the wall, or listening to pop on headphones day and night. |
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| The instrument is, in effect, played by the breeze, making sounds akin to an oboe-like moaning and the dulcifying strum of a harp. |
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| The milieu of the First Ward was akin to a small industrial town, where the Irish lived in the shadow of the grain elevator. |
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| I live with someone who collects trashy pop art, and it's very akin to my cartooning. |
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| By definition slavery was a brutal, violent and dehumanising institution, where slaves were seen as akin to animals. |
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| As for Peter the Great, he might also have been akin to Edward II insofar as he was not afraid to indulge in manual occupations. |
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| It is akin to the banning of alcohol in the U.S.A. during the time of Prohibition, and is totally unenforceable. |
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| The vitreous body is encased in a clear hyaloid membrane akin to the outer membrane seen in the white of an egg. |
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| Trying to foresee where this high-tech, artistic industry is headed can be akin to aiming at a moving target. |
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| And an argument without evidence is a sorry one indeed, more akin to a creed or dogma than scientific reasoning. |
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| And the Fresh Air's one-way valve honks when you exhale, emitting a sound akin to the call of an amorous sea lion. |
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| By trying to make it one, they have ended up with something akin to an attempt at mixing oil and water together. |
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| For the officers of the tiny garrison stationed at Camp Sheridan, the situation was akin to sitting on a powder keg. |
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| Implantation of the pre-embryo in the uterine wall is a highly invasive process, akin to attack by a parasite. |
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| It was a sound akin to a cat's purr, but held undertones of a lion's growl. |
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| For example, one pro skater might challenge you to break his record in a downhill slalom race that is akin to bobsledding. |
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| It is akin to asking sexual harassers to assess themselves when it is obvious they find their behaviour acceptable on their own terms. |
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| That's perhaps not a typical example, because hooking a giant trevally is akin to sticking a fly into the mouth of a Hereford bull. |
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| His approach is akin to measuring your personal solvency by adding up the deposits in your bank account and neglecting the withdrawals. |
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| Mavrodaphne is best known as a dessert wine that is akin to the flavor and aroma of tawny port. |
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| The hue and cry of this rough popular justice, akin to Europe's chiarivari and skimmingtons, led to the abusive oratory. |
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| The dapper, silver-haired Frenchman had a celebrity status akin to a rock star among followers the world over. |
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| Kerry County Council has received a warning from the top that the sale of holiday homes in the county is akin to selling family birthrights. |
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| To ask a Bhutanese about happiness is akin to asking a Frenchman about wine or a Brazilian about soccer. |
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| If Durer's art is one of representation, in which the role of mimesis is paramount, Grunewald's is an expressive art akin to poetry or music. |
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| Humor raises no such difficulty, for it is a purely formal device, more akin to the metric pattern of verse than to that of a trope. |
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| In these three central symphonies, a large orchestra is used economically, with passages of delicacy and refinement akin to chamber music. |
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| A three-year halt on engine development is, in the eyes of most in this sport, more akin to a nuclear winter than a temporary freeze. |
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| Finally, abandoning value metrics is akin to throwing the baby out with the bathwater. |
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| With a wing span of up to 5ft and a distinctive long, forked tail, the red kite is a scavenger by nature and akin to a vulture. |
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| The horns are akin to the didgeridoos of the Australian aboriginals and are referred to generically in the Central African Republic as ongo. |
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| In fact, the sages asserted that someone who embarrasses another person in public is akin to a murderer. |
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| Sometimes it's just a grunt or two, a guttural sound akin to some sort of proto-speech. |
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| St Mary's College at present is akin to a sinking ship, and this nth round of cutbacks and strikes merely serves to raise the tide ever higher. |
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| The idea is to create a dot pattern akin to the grains of the photographic emulsion. |
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| Goddard admits that his disruptive behaviour was akin to engaging in battle and resulted in his expulsion. |
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| Thus instead of being useless or morally questionable, leisure becomes an exalted ideal, akin to virtue. |
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| I think you're seeing something akin to what we saw in the 1970s when we had a similar kind of sharp spike in oil prices. |
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| We drank that dodgy cheap wine which is akin to beetroot juice and has negligible alcohol content. |
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| This is basically akin to saying Esperanto will make learning languages obsolete. |
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| Unlike the first time, when traveling to Cuba was something of an exotic journey to a foreign land, my return was more akin to a homecoming. |
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| Cloning humans while the technology is still new and unproven is akin to experimenting on babies. |
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| Prudie finds this issue akin to a spouse or family member listening in on an extension. |
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| The techniques Matthew and his fellow craftsmen use are more akin to woodworking than modern metalwork. |
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| The branch of study of beauty known as philocaly is akin to philosophy for, according to Augustine, they have a common lineage. |
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| There was one person who was akin to a yippy dog sitting in there commenting loudly to everyone and making no sense at all. |
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| I just want to thank Faith and the wonderful Rossi for being something akin to soul sisters to me when it comes to this subject. |
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| On the political front, these leaders were akin to messiahs in their respective parties and countries. |
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| The stage that they pass through is akin to the annual examinations taken by a student. |
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| Most of what you get from your clients in a creative brief is akin to stereo instructions in terms of dramatic impact and sheer volume. |
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| Leaving this vulnerability unrectified would be akin to playing hockey without a goalie. |
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| In the eyes of most of the outside world, they are akin to genocidal murderers. |
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| However, the hapu say building houses on the sacred mountain at Ngunguru would be akin to defiling Westminster Abbey or the Vatican. |
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| The Zeederbergs basalts are dominantly tholeiitic and compositionally akin to continental flood basalts. |
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| In particular, Dean Road and Manor Road are used as a green thoroughfare by residents and are perhaps more akin to urban parks. |
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| Catching him up on a financial technicality is akin to nailing Capone on tax evasion. |
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| What I'm saying here is that we need to do something akin to a strategic decimation for mutineers. |
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| Both are structurally akin to the natural adrenaline a body produces for a variety of functions, including thermogenesis. |
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| There's something about witnessing art out of doors that's akin to skinny-dipping. |
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| Gradually throughout the 1920s the Anzac Day service became less and less akin to a mournful funeral. |
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| I don't have a huge understanding of the markets and would consider it akin to backing a horse. |
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| Taking the advice of a fellow artist, he blew them up photographically, and they took on physical properties akin to large-scale billboards. |
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| Indeed, Smith has talked of the surrealist influence in his work, focusing on his methods as akin to automatic writing. |
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| I wonder whether some standardised form of description, akin to heraldic blazon, will gradually emerge. |
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| Later religions considered this concept blasphemous, as it was akin to man proclaiming himself as God. |
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| He doesn't seem to be describing just any kind of slithering, but something akin to the movement of the sidewinder. |
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| It also seems to sport a luxuriant growth of something akin to a virulent mould. |
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| Willfully to misinterpret a text is akin to attributing an action to the author that he did not commit. |
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| The technique involved in creating the art is more akin to assembling a model kit than painting an artwork. |
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| Fortunately the fact that the room was akin to Turkish bath helped root out the weak. |
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| Was the hype akin to a practice run for parliamentary and presidential elections this fall? |
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| The effect is somewhat akin to accelerating through various 20th century musical schools. |
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| Among his most engaging works is one depicting a loosely constructed, elongated structure akin to a covered bridge. |
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| In many ways, the choice is akin to taking two different routes to the same destination. |
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| Passing artics is fine and I felt less vulnerable than I possibly might in something akin to a Caterham. |
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| Global capitalism and revolution are like oil and water, but in hip-hop they're akin to Siamese twins. |
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| Kaumatua, or elder, Wara Heremaia told the crowd Maori had gathered to celebrate the power of aroha, something akin to love, rather than anger. |
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| It is akin to covering one's ears, or more to point, running in and out of the theater while the film is showing. |
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| His voice rises in pitch as he says it, turning the last syllable of his question into something akin to a squeak. |
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| Either way it resulted in a print akin to embossed leatherwork in appearance. |
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| Hearing these confessionals was a thrill akin to skimming Lady Macbeth's diary or getting drunk with Machiavelli. |
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| It is regarded as being akin to rocket fuel so just imagine what state a person or persons would be in if they purchased a pitcher of the stuff. |
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| Finding the company's real revenue-as opposed to reported revenue-was akin to locating the hidden bean in a shell game. |
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| You also described 5 pin bowling as being akin to lawn bowling, with the ball being palmed. |
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| These courses provide lesson planning capability and lesson tracking creating a virtual learning environment akin to having an Amharic tutor! |
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| In this way, Kant renders a service akin to that which Aristotle, Aquinas, and Locke offer though their descriptions of natural law. |
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| This gallery forms an elevated observation point akin to the bridge of a ship, or the control tower of an airport. |
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| She said there has been nothing akin to the feeling she had when she was standing on the podium and hearing NZ's national anthem being played. |
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| The Medes were an Indo-European people who spoke an Iranian language closely akin to old Persian. |
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| My brother was raised over there so he speaks Yoruba which is akin to speaking Welsh or Gaelic. |
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| Some think the process is akin to REM sleep, where eye movements accompany the digestion of daytime memories. |
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| I see these covert mechanisms as being akin to the development of politically correct language. |
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| The core of the performance is a joonba, a traditional performance akin to a corroboree. |
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| The ride in an Audi 200 is akin to hitching a lift on the back of a horse drawn carriage. |
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| I believe the main flaw of textbook TCM is the way it has apparently reduced the therapeutic process to something akin to a computer flow chart. |
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| This entity was supposed to be a manifestation or thought-form akin to the ectoplasm that is generated by mediums while in a trance state. |
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| We haven't had much new snow, so the trails were not that wonderful deep fluff, but rather a rut akin to those left on the Oregon Trail. |
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| Specimens are rarely found in one unbroken piece, and the process of reconstituting them is akin to completing a jigsaw puzzle. |
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| Not exactly flying as birds, their flight path was more of a glide, akin to flying fish or squirrels on earth. |
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| This self-esteem was more akin to that sense of self that made Sinatra sing about how swell it was to be king of the hill. |
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| It was his character which was unpredictable, akin to a time-bomb waiting to go off. |
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| As Ray puts it, this is akin to the change and variation occurring among the characters in a story. |
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| Detecting the three cubes seems akin to shifting a view point when observing the Necker cube. |
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| This is an experience that cannot be replicated outside a university or something at least akin to it. |
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| Reagan then described them as being akin to the Founding Fathers of the American Constitution! |
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| Their heads were akin to those of a crocodile, with short yellow teeth protruding over scaled lips, and the long snout jutting forwards. |
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| With 12 independently administered areas, the city is more akin to a series of linked villages. |
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| There are areas of every American city that you steer clear of or hurry through because they are more akin to third than first world. |
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| Opus Dei is frequently attacked for its alleged secrecy, and has often been described as a secret society akin to the Freemasons. |
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| His position is akin to that of the rebellious dissenters of the seventeenth century. |
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| It would be difficult to say how many people we are sending, because that would be akin to revealing our game plan to the terrorists. |
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| Perchta's gastrotomic proclivities have been unconsciously adapted in various ways, fittingly or otherwise, by a process akin to the linguistic one of popular etymology. |
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| If the wind is blowing in from the east then sea fret hits even when the rest of old Blighty is basking in conditions more akin to the Mediterranean. |
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| The markets on Monday and Tuesday were akin to the old curate's egg. |
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| He channels this energy towards the intensification of a ubiquitous, paranoid, self-conscious awareness akin to being in a carnival funhouse surrounded by distorting mirrors. |
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| The artist has so manipulated his camera that, within the blacked-out edges of the white plastic house framed in the shot, there appears a fuzziness akin to television static. |
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| To say that too much rain fell this week for the gullies and drains to cope with the weight of water is akin to the leaves on the line arguments put forward by the railways. |
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| A severe haemorrhagic fever akin to Ebola, the Marburg virus spreads on contact with body fluids such as blood, urine, excrement, vomit and saliva. |
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| Ryan believes that the e-business transformation is akin to a journey. |
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| It's just the place to buy a helium-filled Dalmatian, while listening to old blokes with beards making a noise akin to a donkey being garrotted with cheese wire. |
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| All three of the main protagonists appear to be in something akin to top form and all were making confident noises after almost error-free rounds yesterday. |
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| Defeats are always difficult to swallow but this one must leave a sizeable lump akin to an everlasting gobstopper lodged in the throat of York City. |
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| Tony Benn has many of the attributes of a great diarist akin to Horace Walpole or Charles Greville and, like these two, he comes from the outer fringes of the titled classes. |
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| Theirs is a view akin to those of the medieval guilds that protected their knowledge by allowing only initiates into full understanding of the one truth. |
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| The trouble is, the rules governing courtship today are vexing and often destructive, reducing the stuff of poetry to something akin to emotional dodgeball. |
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| Peggy describes their conflict as akin to a deep religious difference, bridgeable by some core shared belief. |
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| Frequently, their manner of writing was very much akin to that of the Meditations for Retreat and of different vow formulas. |
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| The revised 1990 penal code replaced the old inquisitory system with an accusatory system akin to that of common-law countries. |
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| Instead of processing children through a judicial system, they sought a process more akin to the working of a social welfare program. |
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| Untethering from land seems a big moment for a floating city, akin to blasting off to colonise another planet. |
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| A shrieky, punky banger stands out, akin to Scream, one of the album's teaser tracks, but shorn of its guesting Taiwanese rapper Aristophanes. |
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| Cycling is a key element in transport planning and feeling safe, an element of carefreeness akin to using public transport, is part of it. |
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| And if boardroom fashion can be a game of strategic intimidation, then these clothes are akin to a hostile takeover. |
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| His early exposure to eskrima was the Bohol style that he described as akin to nunchaku movements. |
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| Closely akin to drawing, this new series explores the phantasmagorical, imaginary world of different culture's tales and myths. |
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| Doing otherwise would be akin to reverting to a rotary dial phone or using a horse and buggy for convenience. |
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| Here's what would be akin to her facing a medical emergency: your facing a medical emergency. |
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| A low-paying job that was found quickly is thus considered to be akin to a shoddy product that was hastily fashioned. |
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| Asking the dogs to do otherwise would be akin to feeding them Christmas dinner before running a marathon. |
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| To do otherwise would be akin to attaching new consequences to events that took place before the enactment was adopted. |
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| An internship should be akin to an assessment center, where the aim is to forge links with students. |
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| To discuss definitions of sustainable soil fertility without recognising the human factor may be akin to hiding one's head in the sand. |
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| However, it is difficult to believe that this staff can be considered to be akin to a police force or the armed forces! |
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| Broad, exclusive licences can be akin to a disposition of the technology or licensed rights. |
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| Their atomized position makes them more akin to petty-bourgeois prospectors rather than proletarians. |
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| This awl is akin to those created by the Yup'ik men of southwestern Alaska. |
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| Originally, they thought L. S. D. would terrify alcoholics by causing symptoms akin to delirium tremens. |
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| In other words, the cycle time for a Hercules to go there and back is something akin to twenty days. |
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| A visitor should never on any account express anything akin to contempt for people's religious sensibilities. |
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| Its mysterious amorphousness is akin to her own boundless and restless energy. |
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| Von Trier's inspiration is more akin to the artistic sensuality of Carl Dreyer than the sexploitation of Russ Meyer, however. |
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| I was the only member of Parliament who was there, and because I keep a pretty low profile, it was kind of akin to being a fly on the wall. |
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| One reviewer found a roughness and even beauty that now and then reached something akin to the rude sublimity of a D. H. Lawrence story. |
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| Authentic filmmaking is akin to what Lynch or the Coen's do: experimenting something that is alive and not just going through the motions. |
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| Of course this concern is moot if the Allies fail to win the game overall, which is akin to fighting over the Titanic's best deck chair. |
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| Tatting, process by which a fabric akin to lace is made of thread with a small hand shuttle and the fingers. |
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| However, it is also a tamped and shuttered construction akin to rammed earth. |
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| This last year has been an exciting one, somewhat akin to changing a flat tire on a moving car. |
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| The rotation of the product in a multitude of ways is an almost familiar gesture, akin to the natural touch when visiting a market stall. |
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| While some may find it edgy and aggressive, others will find its appearance curiously akin to an arachnid. |
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| To date, graphene ribbons have been «cut» from larger graphene sheets, akin to tagliatelle being cut from pasta dough. |
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| The landscape is thus akin to a lawn dotted with trees and shrubs, its aridity contrasting sharply with the greenness of the gardens. |
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| Its largest supporters were eastern-European immigrants to Canada, which led the federal government to consider the IWW akin to Bolshevism. |
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| In the summer of 2010 blundering police shot dead over 110 protesters taking part in something akin to an intifada. |
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| Behind them can be heard the cries of the tribe, who gaze at the scene with something akin to reverential wonder. |
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| In Switzerland, the power of recommendation is somewhat akin to heavy artillery. |
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| Hard-wired into the psyche of many is the idea that somehow time off is akin to sloth. |
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| Betty smiles so rarely on Mad Men that when she does it holds special importance, akin to a sphinx letting her guard down. |
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| During the free-fall portion of each parabola, we experienced 20 seconds of weightlessness, a sensation akin to swimming without water. |
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| What the then Ignacio Hurban encountered at the Carlotto home provoked something akin to culture shock. |
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| In a similar way, DNN technology can detect patterns akin to the way biological systems recognize patterns. |
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| This is due by and large, as we have heard today, to the sophistication of financial instruments which are viewed by some as akin to alchemy. |
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| A duty of confidence is proposed, akin to that applying to police personnel. |
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| Situation testing is very much akin to this approach and might be qualified as an experimental design in a field setting. |
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| It is somewhat akin to telling a child, when his or her first tooth falls out, that the tooth fairy will come. |
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| These are vegetable substantces with a structure that is very much akin to the female hormone oestrogen. |
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| The IBETs are more akin to co-location arrangements than to full integration in this respect, their primary purpose being information sharing. |
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| I usually describe the process at the FMI as one akin to controlled chaos: ideas going in all directions! |
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| That is the additional test suggested in the Johnson case, something akin to a prosecutorial standard. |
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| It was akin to a jailer wielding a set of keys before locking you in your cell. |
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| Although the vests are ready-made and arranged serially, their psychic value and relation to loss is obvious, making them more akin to found objects. |
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| His approach to the arts was akin to that of a toreador to a bull. |
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| Mary is at once graced by the Light and reflects it, a figure akin to God's Shekhinah, the Hebrew understanding of Divine Wisdom as manifest in feminine guise. |
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| But evolutionary trends are post hoc constructs akin to mnemonics. |
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| I think of reading magazines as being akin to the slow food movement. |
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| The grain with it, farika, is akin to kasha or bulgar wheat. |
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| If we nonetheless accept that maximizing utility is itself the goal, then it is best seen as a non-moral ideal, akin in some ways to an aesthetic ideal. |
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| There is an uneasy sensation akin to loss of control, a whirlwind that trips my balance, sweeps me off my steady feet and into a foggy daze at odd times of the day. |
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| Internal combustion engined vehicles were converted to run on steam or gas and had contraptions attached that made them look more akin to vehicles in Star Wars. |
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| For a moment something akin to panic flared in Adam's hooded eyes. |
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| Only light comedy survived as a distinct genre akin to farce. |
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| Depending on the mandate in specific cases, conciliation can thus vary from a form of institutionalized negotiation to something akin to non-binding arbitration. |
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| This small restaurant is hidden away in the bowels of the place, and has a cosy, intimate atmosphere more akin to a city-centre restaurant than a golf club. |
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| Leaving software on the default installation settings is akin to buying a safe and not changing the combination on the lock from the factory settings. |
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| He has argued that mocking ginger-haired players is akin to racism. |
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| The state we were in was a kind of mental eroticism, an erethism of the mind, akin to that inwardly directed state of arousal achieved by adepts of Tantric yoga. |
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| Attending a Mile High event is akin to being abruptly thrown into an ongoing play and having to adjust your behavior accordingly. |
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| Would that kind of publication be akin today to having a campaign blog or Twitter feed? |
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| I can appreciate the perspective that my experience is akin to visiting a human zoo. |
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| The biogenesis ban would be akin to the Black Sox scandal or the barring of Pete Rose from the Hall of Fame. |
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| Even the basic stateroom is akin to a luxury hotel room, with its queen-sized bed, en-suite facilities, air conditioning and even piped-in music, volume-controlled. |
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| She appears waxen and dead, akin to Lenin's body in its Red Square tomb. |
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| These steel and fiberboard buildings were akin to the American Quonsets. |
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| The ride is akin to hitching a lift on the back of a horse drawn carriage. |
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| Accompanied by a series of photographs of Harlem, the piece reads akin to the ramblings of a sentimental expatriate inundating new friends with photographs of a lost home. |
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| Because of tidal action, which in its own way can be a form of marine structure, bays are more akin to rivers and streams than to lakes and reservoirs. |
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| It's more akin to buying a lottery ticket than paying for a service. |
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| Goodwin describes the process as being akin to working on a jigsaw. |
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| At the moment the situation is very much akin to the tail wagging the dog. |
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| A database table is broadly akin to a worksheet in an Excel spreadsheet. |
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| In translating the odes, for example, I kept to their syllabic count and tried to engender rhythms akin to but not identical with those engendered by alcaics in German. |
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| Amotivation represents the lowest possible level of self-determination, as it implies a loss of personal control and alienation akin to learned helplessness. |
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| The words are also haunted by Dickens's fear of a reprise of a violent social revolution akin to that experienced in France in the last decade of the eighteenth century. |
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| It was akin to a backer's audition for a Broadway musical, where if the would-be theatrical angels leave humming the title tune, they will undoubtedly ante up later. |
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| One theory on arms races is that, if controlled at a key stability point, they may contribute to some kind of strategic stability, akin to a balance of power. |
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| Many cats belong to elderly, lonely people, their only companion is their furry feline. To them the loss of their beloved friend is akin to losing a close relative. |
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| To be sure, we can expect to see an outpouring of domestic support akin to that following the May 2008 Sichuan earthquake. |
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| The doctor himself helpfully describes taniwhas as akin to goblins. |
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| Think of the effort to support independent bookstores as being akin to the slow food movement. |
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| Observing the slow-moving procession was akin to watching a tranquil dream float by. |
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| It was akin to turning off a bustling well-lit highway and onto a sinister-looking backwoods dirt road that led to only God and the devil knew where. |
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| This notion has undoubtedly partly arisen because of Doctor Johnson's famous observation that going to sea was akin to being in prison, with the added danger of drowning. |
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| I feel akin to the writers and exciters, the people who put themselves out on the front line, let their thoughts and their hearts be known to the world. |
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| This is eerily akin to the deus-ex climaxes to movies like Independence Day, in which a semi-autonomous, broad-reaching hunk of malware is tricked into self-destructing. |
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| Jiggle a mass to and fro and it will send out waves of gravitational energy, akin to the way a ball that is bounced on a trampoline sends vibrations across the canvas. |
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| In assuming such a possibility, Shaw's study is very much akin to the uncritical and totalizing movement of Lukacs's thought in The Historical Novel. |
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| The Taliban's spring offensive began with an assault in Kandahar this week akin to the 1968 Tet offensive in Vietnam. |
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| Bags had grown to this enormous monstrosity, wildly unfunctional, akin to tottering around on seven-inch heels. |
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| The Massachusetts-based Cave In originated in the mid 1990s as a brutal, dynamic, metal-tinged hardcore band akin to influential shredders like Converge, Coalesce, and Botch. |
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| Qualifying requires tunnel vision akin to the view through a soda straw. |
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| It is even possible that something akin to racism could evolve one day, as those who are financially challenged will be branded as such by their unattractiveness. |
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| The question, almost akin to a riddle, is certainly a relevant one to anybody in a creative field. |
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| It had coincided with soul-searching on an ideological level, which had changed Herzen from ardent Westerniser to something more akin to a Slavophile socialist. |
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| Or were the flags put up in order to deflect racial tension, as if to brace for the worst, akin to Floridians nailing boards over their windows before the hurricanes hit. |
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| She was halted with a sensation somewhat akin to being slammed into a brick wall, her sword dropping from her nerveless fingers as the impact struck her. |
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| He sees it as something akin to having the radio on in the background and envisages brokers using it to track news instead of relying on news tickers. |
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| The peaks and flatlines he has experienced during the club's European sorties have been akin to those that would register on a seismograph representing a 9.8 quake. |
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| The denser sand on top sinks while light sand on the bottom rises, creating swirling vortices akin to the convection rolls that are common in gases heated from below. |
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| I think of going there at the weekend as a sort of character-building penance, somewhat akin to light flagellation or putting on a freshly ironed hair-shirt. |
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| Chaotic and unfocused, though also ambitious and intriguing, the production work was at times akin to listening to two perfectly solid tracks laid overtop of one another. |
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| They proposed that such a shift could be due to the regimen of vaccinations given to veterans and that this could lead to symptoms akin to those of chronic fatigue syndrome. |
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| Maybe for some, but for me it's more akin to the rush of a big game hunt. |
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| He's sitting over on 6th Avenue, chortling at the abusive nature of this show, which is akin to hunting foals with an Uzi, claymores and hand grenades. |
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| Trying to stop the flow of narcotics is akin to the legendary Sisyphus futilely pushing a boulder uphill, says Fernando Carrera, Guatemala's foreign minister. |
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| Insects diversified during the Cretaceous, and the oldest known ants, termites and some lepidopterans, akin to butterflies and moths, appeared. |
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| Many common law couples continue to disagree and feel frustrated that the law deems their relationship to be akin to marriage after a certain time has passed. |
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| Not doing so would be akin to not helping someone in danger. |
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| It can be said to be akin to seeing images of torture. |
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| Beating Federer would be akin to beating Nadal last year. |
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| Such abnegation would be akin to abdication. |
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| To the Editor: Ross Douthat proposes that the conjectures and affections surrounding the legacy of President John F. Kennedy are somehow akin to cultism. |
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| The suggestion of signalmen being akin to air traffic controllers is something which makes Philip Clark laugh. |
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| For them, the breast is a tapu area of the body, with a diagnosis of cancer or having a breast amputation akin to a death sentence. |
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| This autumn season is something more akin to late springtide in the brilliant career of Edna O'Brien, described by her American peer Philip Roth as the greatest living woman writing in English. |
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| Miserable Strangers couples a tale of a relationship on the rails with heartswelling music akin to Elbow at their best. |
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| It will be asserted he was asleep at the time and that, in effect, he was unconscious of his actions, in some sort of state akin to sleepwalking. |
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| It's more akin to the benign bobbing of a child in a rubber ring. |
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| Moving very much up market, the cabin on the new B-Class also features a snazzy fullcolour display screen akin to an iPad. |
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| The star now starts to shed its outer layers in a series of thermal pulses akin to the helium flash. |
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| The post-election gloom of the nation's leading Republicans has yielded to a mood of orneriness akin to that of sports fans convinced that their team has lost the big game on a botched call. |
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| British experts believe that injuries on his body are akin to those sustained in a chariot accident and that his mummification was botched. |
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