This is not unlike the world of comedy.

Football is like a religion in this country.

Such action is like throwing a stone at the society.

But anti Zionism is becoming akin to anti Semitism.

Most Poles think that Poland's situation is akin to Denmark's.

This is akin to a WTO test for departures from established international standards.

For me, the nomad was a romantic figure, akin to the American cowboy of the Wild West.

The troika s decision on Cyprus was akin to policymaking by rolling the dice.

Success in foreign policy, as in carpentry, requires the right tools for the job.

Is this not akin to a mugger pointing a gun at your head and threatening to shoot?

Many surveys show that it is almost like an addiction, with a short term benefit leading to long term unhappiness and remorse.

They see discussing energy security with Russia as akin to chatting about water safety with Comrade Crocodile.

Watching the bat emergence is an event that is popular with locals and tourists, with more than 100,000 viewers per year.

While the latter is taken for granted in the developed world, sidewalks in Latin America are often akin to disputed territory.

Rand portrays innovative industrialists as akin to Atlas in Greek mythology, carrying on his back a dystopian world of growing and overbearing collectivist government.

The G8 Summit proposes that the solution to Africa's problems should be a massive increase in aid, something akin to the Marshall Plan.

This is akin to an announcement on a cruise ship approaching an iceberg that the crew will definitely rescue first class passengers but not necessarily others.

With the withdrawal of French troops last year, the Central African Republic might fall into the same situation as Rwanda did in 1994, with worrisome warnings of insecurity over the last months.

Most of these factors are akin to positive global aggregate demand shocks, which should lead to economic overheating and a rise in global inflation.

First are the libertarians, for whom anything that comes between two consenting adults is akin to a crime.

If a real Ebola patient exists in a country, than the procedure is akin to plague epidemics, with hermetic closing of all doors in and out of Macedonia.

For Karimi, therefore, a director is like a graffiti artist, an outlaw who lacks the comforts of the conventional painter, and whose art reflects the conditions of its production.

Inflicting excessive austerity on the southern European countries while limiting their exports by restricting effective demand in the north is like administering an overdose to a patient while withholding oxygen.

From the Japanese perspective, there was an account of victimization,'' in which atomic bombs have become the symbol of a specific type of suffering rather similar to the Holocaust for the Jews.''

Kyrgyzstan's street democracy is thus akin to a game wherein the players can win temporary, tactical victories over their opponents without ever being able to secure a controlling stake as Putin has achieved in Russia, Ormushev added.

For Britons, this idea stirs sentiments akin to what Germans might feel if the EU proposed a new tax on liverwurst, with the proceeds to go into the central pot.

This idea is lost in today s cost accounting for universities, which treats what transpires between teacher and student in the classroom as akin to what happens between producer and consumer in the market.

A dictator s death throes are always a form of theater, featuring ecstatic masses, would be successors fighting for political survival, and, behind the scenes, the dictator s coterie locked in efforts to extend the life of their patriarch until they can secure their privileges.

The story, akin to Alexander Solzhenitsyn's ambitious 1962 masterpiece One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, steadily indicts the corruption of state power a power ever willing to kill and to align itself with an even more corrupt power, the Orthodox Church.

Otherwise, Kiev might witness the type of protests and the risk of civil war that brought down Slobodan Milosevic in Serbia in 2000 and Eduard Schevardnadze's government in Georgia last year.

The two African based religions are comparable to Christianity and Islam since they have completely different foundations, rites, visions and interpretations , according to the blog Tenda de Umbanda Filhos da Vovó Rita, which is run by an Umbanda terreiro (a temple) in Santa Catarina.

If you assume that governing is like campaigning that you have to be on top of the debate 24 hours a day, seven days a week can you really anticipate a long shelf life?

America s opposition to the AIIB is not unprecedented in fact, it is akin to the successful US opposition to Japan s generous New Miyazawa Initiative of the late 1990s, which offered 80 billion to help countries in the East Asian crisis.

If you assume that governing is like campaigning that you have to be on top of the debate 24 hours a day, seven days a week can you really anticipate a long shelf life?

It has been argued that if, in 2007, the US had a Financial Products Safety Commission akin to its Food and Drugs Administration, the market would not have been flooded with teaser mortgages that entangled millions of households in chains of predatory credit.