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How to use akin to in a sentence

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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.
Finally, abandoning value metrics is akin to throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
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.
For those on the wrong side of the law, the 1950s were seemingly akin to the early days of penal settlement.
Reagan then described them as being akin to the Founding Fathers of the American Constitution!
Not exactly flying as birds, their flight path was more of a glide, akin to flying fish or squirrels on earth.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Finding the company's real revenue-as opposed to reported revenue-was akin to locating the hidden bean in a shell game.
The core of the performance is a joonba, a traditional performance akin to a corroboree.
To ask a Bhutanese about happiness is akin to asking a Frenchman about wine or a Brazilian about soccer.
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.
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.
I see these covert mechanisms as being akin to the development of politically correct language.
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.
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.
And an argument without evidence is a sorry one indeed, more akin to a creed or dogma than scientific reasoning.
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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.
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.
The Medes were an Indo-European people who spoke an Iranian language closely akin to old Persian.
Global capitalism and revolution are like oil and water, but in hip-hop they're akin to Siamese twins.
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.
Fortunately the fact that the room was akin to Turkish bath helped root out the weak.
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.
Detecting the three cubes seems akin to shifting a view point when observing the Necker cube.
He doesn't seem to be describing just any kind of slithering, but something akin to the movement of the sidewinder.
Later religions considered this concept blasphemous, as it was akin to man proclaiming himself as God.
I wonder whether some standardised form of description, akin to heraldic blazon, will gradually emerge.
The dapper, silver-haired Frenchman had a celebrity status akin to a rock star among followers the world over.
Leaving this vulnerability unrectified would be akin to playing hockey without a goalie.
Taking the advice of a fellow artist, he blew them up photographically, and they took on physical properties akin to large-scale billboards.
This gallery forms an elevated observation point akin to the bridge of a ship, or the control tower of an airport.
Gradually throughout the 1920s the Anzac Day service became less and less akin to a mournful funeral.
The hue and cry of this rough popular justice, akin to Europe's chiarivari and skimmingtons, led to the abusive oratory.
There's something about witnessing art out of doors that's akin to skinny-dipping.
Prudie finds this issue akin to a spouse or family member listening in on an extension.
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 was a sound akin to a cat's purr, but held undertones of a lion's growl.
Cloning humans while the technology is still new and unproven is akin to experimenting on babies.
What I'm saying here is that we need to do something akin to a strategic decimation for mutineers.
Catching him up on a financial technicality is akin to nailing Capone on tax evasion.
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.
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.
I have found personally that my visualisations are more akin to waking dreams, the type that can be superimposed upon my conscious sight.
Still, getting on with ordinary office routine and procedure, we suspect, was akin to walking on eggshells.
His stay in Rome then would have been less a Wanderjahr and presumably more akin to a business trip.
The Vajrayana sect took this a step further and introduced female divinities to Buddhist worship akin to Hinduism.
This is basically akin to saying Esperanto will make learning languages obsolete.
We drank that dodgy cheap wine which is akin to beetroot juice and has negligible alcohol content.
Thus instead of being useless or morally questionable, leisure becomes an exalted ideal, akin to virtue.
Current management thinking largely assumes that a well functioning organisation is akin to a well oiled machine.
The Karakalpaks, who live in the desert south of the Aral Sea, have a separate language and tradition more akin to Kazakh than Uzbek.
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.
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.
The instrument is, in effect, played by the breeze, making sounds akin to an oboe-like moaning and the dulcifying strum of a harp.
The gray boy's clothes even looked aged, appearing to be akin to medieval robes.
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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His position is akin to that of the rebellious dissenters of the seventeenth century.
My new sisters were truly beautiful in their black khimar, and a light akin to saintliness shone from their faces.
Goddard admits that his disruptive behaviour was akin to engaging in battle and resulted in his expulsion.
Hearing these confessionals was a thrill akin to skimming Lady Macbeth's diary or getting drunk with Machiavelli.
When it comes to knocking the stuffing out of rival teams, Hearts are becoming something akin to specialists.
The limestone pavement gives the island a character akin to the Burren with a similar flora.
But within the Labour tribe, it is akin to smashing a sacred tablet of stone.
Without having read his comments, something akin to that feeling always propelled me on.
The idea is to create a dot pattern akin to the grains of the photographic emulsion.
This gives it a unique character, more akin to a board game such as chess than to a normal card game.
In fact, the Chinese model is akin to the Gandhian scheme of decentralised development.
Since the collapse of Enron in January 2002, maintenance has become more akin to life support.
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.
Sometimes it's just a grunt or two, a guttural sound akin to some sort of proto-speech.
That's the way he characterised your approach and he said that was akin to blackmail.
In fact, the sages asserted that someone who embarrasses another person in public is akin to a murderer.
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.
With 12 independently administered areas, the city is more akin to a series of linked villages.
This is an experience that cannot be replicated outside a university or something at least akin to it.
As Ray puts it, this is akin to the change and variation occurring among the characters in a story.
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The effect is somewhat akin to accelerating through various 20th century musical schools.
It was his character which was unpredictable, akin to a time-bomb waiting to go off.
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.
Specimens are rarely found in one unbroken piece, and the process of reconstituting them is akin to completing a jigsaw puzzle.
The incredulity displayed is akin to watching a piano-playing chicken bang out Rachmaninoff.
The horns are akin to the didgeridoos of the Australian aboriginals and are referred to generically in the Central African Republic as ongo.
In these three central symphonies, a large orchestra is used economically, with passages of delicacy and refinement akin to chamber music.
The milieu of the First Ward was akin to a small industrial town, where the Irish lived in the shadow of the grain elevator.
The two cannot go together, and is akin to yoking a horse and a camel together.
Some think the process is akin to REM sleep, where eye movements accompany the digestion of daytime memories.
My brother was raised over there so he speaks Yoruba which is akin to speaking Welsh or Gaelic.
In this way, Kant renders a service akin to that which Aristotle, Aquinas, and Locke offer though their descriptions of natural law.
These courses provide lesson planning capability and lesson tracking creating a virtual learning environment akin to having an Amharic tutor!
Mavrodaphne is best known as a dessert wine that is akin to the flavor and aroma of tawny port.
If the committee determines a lawmaker has committed wrongdoing, it may send the lawmaker a letter of reproval, akin to a rebuke.
You also described 5 pin bowling as being akin to lawn bowling, with the ball being palmed.
Finding just the right combination was a process akin to spinning the dial on a lock, praying each time to hit the right series.
His gentle vocals and picturesque lyrics are akin to floating down a lazy river.
His approach is akin to measuring your personal solvency by adding up the deposits in your bank account and neglecting the withdrawals.
Either way it resulted in a print akin to embossed leatherwork in appearance.
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Something akin to rain was falling over her awareness, silver rain that was illuminated impossibly against the darkness as it was unleashed.
Implicitly, they also claim that something akin to a level playing field is now in place.
It can also be baked lightly to make small biscuits and petits fours, akin to macaroons.
His voice rises in pitch as he says it, turning the last syllable of his question into something akin to a squeak.
Expect your first time to feel akin to being strapped to a dodgy roller skate in the middle of a quarry.
They're akin to the licence granted the king's fair-haired courtiers in the Middle Ages.
By definition slavery was a brutal, violent and dehumanising institution, where slaves were seen as akin to animals.
Kaumatua, or elder, Wara Heremaia told the crowd Maori had gathered to celebrate the power of aroha, something akin to love, rather than anger.
Passing artics is fine and I felt less vulnerable than I possibly might in something akin to a Caterham.
In many ways, the choice is akin to taking two different routes to the same destination.
Some will say it was a remarkable act of self denial akin to the penitential days of renunciation in Biblical times.
It's ascribing sinister motives to the FBI before anything remotely akin to that has been proven.
Among his most engaging works is one depicting a loosely constructed, elongated structure akin to a covered bridge.
It is akin to the banning of alcohol in the U.S.A. during the time of Prohibition, and is totally unenforceable.
In the Allegro assai moderato we have an impression of impish playfulness that is very much akin to Gade's own inventiveness.
Was the hype akin to a practice run for parliamentary and presidential elections this fall?
The technique involved in creating the art is more akin to assembling a model kit than painting an artwork.
Somewhat akin to a peep show, the audience were watching the bits that weren't supposed to be seen, only heard.
Willfully to misinterpret a text is akin to attributing an action to the author that he did not commit.
It also seems to sport a luxuriant growth of something akin to a virulent mould.
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The digital object represents something intellectually closely akin to a printed book.
Mary, smiling, reads a prayer-book, akin to the one she appears in, with patrician composure.
The vitreous body is encased in a clear hyaloid membrane akin to the outer membrane seen in the white of an egg.
Indeed, Smith has talked of the surrealist influence in his work, focusing on his methods as akin to automatic writing.
However, the hapu say building houses on the sacred mountain at Ngunguru would be akin to defiling Westminster Abbey or the Vatican.
In the eyes of most of the outside world, they are akin to genocidal murderers.
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.
Implantation of the pre-embryo in the uterine wall is a highly invasive process, akin to attack by a parasite.
For the officers of the tiny garrison stationed at Camp Sheridan, the situation was akin to sitting on a powder keg.
It's akin to cell phones adding all sorts of new functionality and services.
The ride in an Audi 200 is akin to hitching a lift on the back of a horse drawn carriage.
A good, substantial meal, perhaps more akin to first-rate home cooking than wildly fancy restaurant food, but none the worse for that.
I don't have a huge understanding of the markets and would consider it akin to backing a horse.
Replaying breakup or accident scenes heightens their sentimental power, akin to repeatedly ripping the scab off a wound.
Trying to foresee where this high-tech, artistic industry is headed can be akin to aiming at a moving target.
Unkind souls may consider that this will be akin to filling an empty space with a hole, but I disdain such cattishness.
Unlike the more cursive style of contemporary scribes, this hand is akin to a conventional liturgical script.
It was a full-frontal assault more akin to the unscrupulous skulduggery of a US presidential campaign.
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.
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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At times, the Cowboys are akin to a full-court press with the pressure they bring on offenses.
Both are structurally akin to the natural adrenaline a body produces for a variety of functions, including thermogenesis.
I live with someone who collects trashy pop art, and it's very akin to my cartooning.
And the Fresh Air's one-way valve honks when you exhale, emitting a sound akin to the call of an amorous sea lion.
In particular, Dean Road and Manor Road are used as a green thoroughfare by residents and are perhaps more akin to urban parks.
The Zeederbergs basalts are dominantly tholeiitic and compositionally akin to continental flood basalts.
Roughly speaking, such a feat is akin to picking up a solitary dime with a clumsy front-end loader.
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.
The stage that they pass through is akin to the annual examinations taken by a student.
The orange and white striped jet fighters would weave in and out of formations with skill akin to that of ballet dancers.
They have combined excellent fertility with good production and their breeding ability is akin to British Friesians.
By trying to make it one, they have ended up with something akin to an attempt at mixing oil and water together.
Opus Dei is frequently attacked for its alleged secrecy, and has often been described as a secret society akin to the Freemasons.
On the political front, these leaders were akin to messiahs in their respective parties and countries.
Their heads were akin to those of a crocodile, with short yellow teeth protruding over scaled lips, and the long snout jutting forwards.
The techniques Matthew and his fellow craftsmen use are more akin to woodworking than modern metalwork.
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.
Attending a Mile High event is akin to being abruptly thrown into an ongoing play and having to adjust your behavior accordingly.
I can appreciate the perspective that my experience is akin to visiting a human zoo.
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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And if boardroom fashion can be a game of strategic intimidation, then these clothes are akin to a hostile takeover.
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.
She appears waxen and dead, akin to Lenin's body in its Red Square tomb.
These steel and fiberboard buildings were akin to the American Quonsets.
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.
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.
It's more akin to buying a lottery ticket than paying for a service.
Goodwin describes the process as being akin to working on a jigsaw.
At the moment the situation is very much akin to the tail wagging the dog.
A database table is broadly akin to a worksheet in an Excel spreadsheet.
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.
Amotivation represents the lowest possible level of self-determination, as it implies a loss of personal control and alienation akin to learned helplessness.
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.
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.
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.
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.
To be sure, we can expect to see an outpouring of domestic support akin to that following the May 2008 Sichuan earthquake.
The doctor himself helpfully describes taniwhas as akin to goblins.
Hard-wired into the psyche of many is the idea that somehow time off is akin to sloth.
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.
Betty smiles so rarely on Mad Men that when she does it holds special importance, akin to a sphinx letting her guard down.
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.
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.
It was akin to a jailer wielding a set of keys before locking you in your cell.
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.
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.
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.
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.
His approach to the arts was akin to that of a toreador to a bull.
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.
The Taliban's spring offensive began with an assault in Kandahar this week akin to the 1968 Tet offensive in Vietnam.
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.
Bags had grown to this enormous monstrosity, wildly unfunctional, akin to tottering around on seven-inch heels.
But evolutionary trends are post hoc constructs akin to mnemonics.
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.
Qualifying requires tunnel vision akin to the view through a soda straw.
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.
The question, almost akin to a riddle, is certainly a relevant one to anybody in a creative field.
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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The ride is akin to hitching a lift on the back of a horse drawn carriage.
I think of reading magazines as being akin to the slow food movement.
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.
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.
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.
The grain with it, farika, is akin to kasha or bulgar wheat.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
For a moment something akin to panic flared in Adam's hooded eyes.
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.
Maybe for some, but for me it's more akin to the rush of a big game hunt.
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.
Their fermentation and distillation process is more akin to the production of cognac, with French rather than American oak used for its maturation.
A better starting point would be a theory which stresses the immanent nature of conflict within discourse, something akin to the work of Mikhail Bakhtin.
Only light comedy survived as a distinct genre akin to farce.
Dragging them from their wide open spaces into captivity is akin to the American scandal of driving Comanches and other Plains Indians onto reservations.
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.
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.
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.
The markets on Monday and Tuesday were akin to the old curate's egg.
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.
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.
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.
A severe haemorrhagic fever akin to Ebola, the Marburg virus spreads on contact with body fluids such as blood, urine, excrement, vomit and saliva.
Ryan believes that the e-business transformation is akin to a journey.
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.
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.
He has argued that mocking ginger-haired players is akin to racism.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The trouble is, the rules governing courtship today are vexing and often destructive, reducing the stuff of poetry to something akin to emotional dodgeball.
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.
You can also cut a bagel in such a way that the two halves don't really separate, but end up as a linked chain akin to a Mobius strip.
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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The annual backslapping football gala has now become something akin to the Ballon Bore.
Russian pagan practices were often akin to paganism in other parts of the world.
This is similar for vascularized composite allografts of portions of limbs that are akin to other reimplantation operations for trauma.
Nondenominational churches and various house churches often adopt, or are akin to one of these movements.
Compared with Machiavelli, it has often been considered in the west has as akin to the Realpolitikal thought of ancient China.
Condenser spinning or cotton waste spinning is akin to spinning wool, and the mules are similar.
European slaves did not pass on an inherited status, and was thus more akin to forced labor, or indentured servitude.
These legends reveal a deep respect for the polar bear, which is portrayed as both spiritually powerful and closely akin to humans.
Both Luzon and Visayas, at first, were more akin to tribal movements until the Spanish came.
A ball game akin to hockey, knattleik involved a bat and a small hard ball and was usually played on a smooth field of ice.
Technically this amount cannot be called a weregild, because it was more akin to a reimbursement to the owner for lost or damaged property.
With something akin to Latin culture, the French immigrants quickly assimilated into mainstream Argentine society.
They often bear some resemblance to English words, as Lombardic was akin to Saxon.
Insects diversified during the Cretaceous, and the oldest known ants, termites and some lepidopterans, akin to butterflies and moths, appeared.
Accepting the arguments in Vestiges was akin to falling from grace and away from God's favour.
The programming language to be employed by users was akin to modern day assembly languages.
His funeral was the first Welsh national funeral, akin to a state funeral, as well as the first national funeral led by a humanist celebrant.
Eska sees Cisalpine Gaulish as more akin to Lepontic than to Transalpine Gaulish.
There is a good ol' boy and girl network operating that is akin to the days of the Ku Klux Klan.
In some ways, how learning and sharing works in a MOOC is more akin to a social network than to a traditional classroom.
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In Boston, where fans are sports savvy, I would expect something akin to contests between the Romans, Visigoths and Picts.
It has a dreamlike atmosphere akin to suspended animation or an out-of-body experience.
Again, akin to the Arabic nawahand music form, fado alternates between minor and Phrygian modes.
In this light it can be seen as akin to the story of Isaac Newton, the falling apple and his discovery of gravity.
The initial singularity of the classical Big Bang models was replaced with a region akin to the North Pole.
We are too near akin to lie together, though we may lodge near one another.
Her voice is more akin to twentysomething urbanite chick-lit, rather than a culinary memoir.
Miserable Strangers couples a tale of a relationship on the rails with heartswelling music akin to Elbow at their best.
The star now starts to shed its outer layers in a series of thermal pulses akin to the helium flash.
Oology, the studying and collecting of eggs, was a common boyhood hobby akin to acquiring butterflies or stamps.
However, they held a legal relationship with their government akin to the modern concept of nationality.
A player can send the jack anywhere on the green in this game and the green itself is more akin to a golf green, with lots of undulation.
Ticket Files guest blogger and KWVA DJ Lauryn Porte described Betty and the Boy's sound as akin to Cat Power, but twangier.
British experts believe that injuries on his body are akin to those sustained in a chariot accident and that his mummification was botched.
Moving very much up market, the cabin on the new B-Class also features a snazzy fullcolour display screen akin to an iPad.
The content of these letters has been described as being akin to a student writing to a teacher.
Cats, the Times told us, are a pestilence akin to gypsy moths and kudzu.
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.
The suggestion of signalmen being akin to air traffic controllers is something which makes Philip Clark laugh.
However, now a new study suggests that shift work is akin to chronic jet lag.
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For example, the Nigerian university system is similar to the British system, while the Ivorian system is akin to the French.
The effect was akin to the individualistic trends present in Europe during the Protestant Reformation.
From the matrixial angle, matricidal phantasy is akin to suicidal phantasy.
Gone is the hokey croak which saw him verging on self-parody and in comes a delicious lugubriousness that's akin to lumpy honey.
However, since time as process is somehow akin to the salubriousness of extentio, there must be some salve for this suffering of time.
The simulation reveals that gas flows into galaxies along filaments akin to cosmic bendy, or swirly, straws.
Splitting pods make an audible pop, and sitting beside a caragana hedge in August or September is akin to sitting before a giant bowl of Rice Krispies.
The jactus lapidum of which he speaks may have been more akin to shotput.
Jabez rides through the fields on his sleek new horse, watching his neighbors harvest his crops. He shows a certain condescension toward them which is akin to arrogance.
The Education Minister's approach to these numerous challenges is akin to that of a pyromaniac, lighting fires everywhere and now many of them are raging out of control.
Another tale features a pelican and a griffin debating church corruption, with the pelican taking a position of protest akin to John Wycliffe's ideas.
Muhammad Ali, the Ottoman governor of Egypt, began rebuilding and redevelopment around 1810, and by 1850, Alexandria had returned to something akin to its former glory.
According to Hopkinson, this Canadian origin makes sense, as the pudding uses a batter more akin to that of an American muffin, rather than an English sponge.
Mr. Winkle... took his hand with a feeling of regard, akin to veneration.
Typically, the peppers are roasted over embers, which gives them a distinct sweet, spicy flavour, more akin to bell peppers than chile peppers, despite their small size.
It is the third of eight matches that Spain will play in Group I, but the coach Vicente del Bosque has described it as being more akin to the first leg of a cup semi-final.
For the people sitting directly behind her, I can only imagine it was akin to watching a concert through an enormous Silvikrin-infused Brillo pad.
As it opens 20 new large-format stores, Egghead Software is repositioning itself as a customer-friendly environment with a layout akin to a bookstore.
How can a basic crocheter create styles akin to top fashion designs?
Boards for health, water, education, the poor law, and so on, were established for each sheriffdom, akin to the way counties were now governed in England.

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