| Some paragliding pilots liken their sport to paddling a Class V river while blindfolded. |
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| Many liken him to a stern Victorian mill owner but there is a soft centre lurking within the hard exterior. |
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| The truth of the leaving reach calculation is mostly a use of the power of the transmitter's digital systems to trustily liken the four signs. |
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| It's all very well to liken a restaurant to the army, but mess cooks seldom win medals for bravery. |
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| For example, the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary liken the lexicographer to the naturalist. |
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| We could be mean and liken it to one of the charity pantomime horses that trots over the finishing line eight hours after the marathon was won. |
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| Proponents of the plan liken it to the Cold War strategy of boosting military spending while pushing for arms-control talks. |
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| She gets more like him as she gets older, but thinks most people would liken her to her mother. |
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| Well, if I liken my writing career to a half-marathon race, I'd say I'm about halfway. |
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| So too, it is only sleeping children that we liken to angels-even though our hymnody reminds us that angels never sleep! |
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| In the last part of your article you liken the act of music piracy to the theft of physical property. |
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| Our proposal today is to liken environmental problems to questions of health and safety at the workplace. |
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| We liken it to holding a race with different finish lines for each participant. |
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| The only description of their attention and assistance that seems adequate is to liken them to concierges at really good hotels. |
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| In fact, the Michigan congressman went so far as to liken them to Judas Iscariot. |
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| Funny that we liken that sort of interminableness to fair ground rides. |
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| Some in Washington liken Iraq a tad tastelessly, perhaps to a giant takeover target, with the resources to pay for its own restructuring. |
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| These markings, which some people liken to suspenders, are easily seen from above when the dolphin is riding bow waves. |
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| Now I would prefer to liken us to a chemicals company that manufactures products using oil as a base. |
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| If you liken a long train to an accordion, pulling forces tend to separate cars and pushing forces will compress them together. |
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| I liken it to the trends in the insurance business where the markets go soft and people compete for business. |
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| It uses temperature-like units to liken the current conditions to how cold your skin would feel on a calm day. |
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| Or you could liken our three yearly meeting to making mayonnaise: the whole is better than the sum of the parts of oil, mustard and egg yolk. |
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| In order to liken yourself to me you must perfect yourself by practicing deeds of virtue. |
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| I liken our present situation to the average Canadian family or small business. |
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| Some scientists liken climate change to a tidal wave that can no longer be held at bay. |
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| They liken the experience to eating pot brownies, which, unlike smoking, results in more lasting, full-bodied effects. |
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| I'd liken it to saying, if you want to go from Vancouver to Ottawa, you should have a railroad. |
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| We can liken the earth's ecosystem to a metasystem of carbon transactions. |
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| When asked about waterboarding, the candidate for the post of DNI appeared hesitant and refused to liken this practice to torture, thereby contradicting Eric Holder, the candidate for the post of Attorney General. |
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| You are lending weight to the arguments of all those who compare the European Union to the socialist Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, and who liken Brussels to Moscow. |
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| Whereto shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or with what comparison shall we compare it? |
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| Many interpreters liken the undulating form of his reclining figures to the landscape and hills of his birthplace, Yorkshire. |
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| The Oxford philosopher, Sir Isaiah Berlin, who has written much on this subject, uses the vivid imagery of the poet Schiller to liken cultural nationalism to a bent twig. |
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| Others liken it to robbery, and see a violation of copyright laws. |
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| It has to do with the fact that regions and local authorities, unlike private lobbyists, represent the general interest: it would therefore be simplistic to liken regions and local authorities to private lobbyists. |
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| I would liken him to General George Marshall during the Second World War. |
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| And it is both dismissive and wrong to liken Chinese repression to a Walt Disney fantasy, as Mr Freeman does. From no perspective was Beijing the right decision. |
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| I think the only thing one could liken it to would be dumping a bomb. |
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| In the few works that have been carried out on pastoralists, a number of stereotyping observers liken a woman's role in the pastoral economy to that of the beast of burden. |
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| Mrs. Brenda Chamberlain: All I'd liken it to is tobacco use. |
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| In some way, I liken this situation to St Dominic's desire to go to the Cumans, but he had to stay and build structures for the healthy formation of his brothers in the Order. |
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| And he who were pleasantly disposed, could not well avoid to liken it to the exploit of that gallant man, who thought to pound up the crows by shutting his park gate. |
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| The religious universities oppose emergency contraceptives, including the so-called morning-after pill, and intrauterine devices, which they liken to abortifacients. |
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| They liken the process, from that point on, to that of assembling a jigsaw puzzle, where the pieces are individual components of particular machines in yeast cells. |
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