Sentences with phrase «in something akin to»

Allan Weiss would like investors to use his index as a tool to help them buy fractional ownership in residential owner - occupied homes in something akin to a reverse mortgage.

Described as a mix of Zelda gameplay in something akin to the Star Wars universe, Songbringer is a new action RPG that's now available on both Xbox One and Windows 10.

During times of high wind flow and low demand, the excess energy could be stored in something akin to a giant battery.

For years, negotiations have stalled in something akin to the old Alphonse and Gaston routine over who steps first.

He began working in something akin to Kitchen Sink realism: «When I started,» he once said, «I looked at something and then I put a mark on the canvas of what I thought was the same colour.

Lydia claims to despise her stepmother, yet Delia is steeped in something akin to Lydia's «Goth» aesthetic.

They actively engaged in something akin to domestic terrorism.

Not exact matches

Delivering something more akin to a typical Southern drawl, Kitsch came off as underwhelming more than anything, thanks in part to the seriousness he brought to the role.

In my scenario, instead of verification connoting what it currently does — this person is kind of famous, or a journalist, or knows somebody who works at Twitter — it would mean something more akin to «authenticated.»

Some incompetent managers invoke staff pity more than pain, while others drain the morale from a conference room — something akin to draining the available oxygen — the moment they walk in.

At La Bonita, a bustling new pulqueria with exposed brick and marble counters in the hip Condesa neighbourhood, I requested a chivito of flavoured pulque, and received something pleasantly akin to lightly fizzy, extra-sweet strawberry beer.

Mothers and fathers do this instinctively: If a kid broaches an idea that will never fly, a wise parent nips it in the bud immediately with something akin to «That will never happen.»

«It was a whole new model for developing a product at the Times, something akin to what's done in Silicon Valley,» Levy said.

Because it serves to remind us that even today the «money» that commercial banks and other private - market financial firms produce is in an important respect not the real McCoy at all, but ersatz (if often more convenient) stuff that serves in place of it, and does so only because the firms that supply it, not only make it very convenient to use (e.g., by swiping a debit card), but at the same time offer its users something akin to money - back (which is to say, a «money proper» - back) guarantees.

In context with government systems it's more akin to preferring our modern western democracies to something like Imperial China, not running free in the woods with my gun collection afraid of the fedIn context with government systems it's more akin to preferring our modern western democracies to something like Imperial China, not running free in the woods with my gun collection afraid of the fedin the woods with my gun collection afraid of the feds.

Finally, at least regarding this personal attack, what you represent as blood lust and voyeuristic glee strikes me as something more akin to a mass catharsis regarding not just Tony Jones, but also several other leading figures in the Emergent movement.

In its marketing campaign, The Good Book: A Humanist Bible was presented as something akin to the emancipation of Daedalus and Icarus in their winged escape from CretIn its marketing campaign, The Good Book: A Humanist Bible was presented as something akin to the emancipation of Daedalus and Icarus in their winged escape from Cretin their winged escape from Crete.

The seeds of this logos reside in humans as the power of reason — something of the divine, cosmic order in everyone, akin, perhaps, to the Quakers» inward light.

One insight provided by Hartshorne's work on the ontological argument is that the concept of the existence of God is something akin to a regulative idea for the rational thought about reality which is attempted in Hartshorne's metaphysics.

The architects and designers have created something akin to the verdant lawns and quiet groves of suburban memorial parks, places we visit in our private journeys of loss, grief, and remembrance.

At this point the question is specifically, do all organisms individually have something akin to purpose as is the case in Process and Reality?

It is doubtful that this states that there is in each organism something akin to purpose.

In Eliot, and in figures such as John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle and Algernon Charles Swinburne, Wilson discovers something akin to what Schubert Ogden called the «strange witness of unbelief.&raquIn Eliot, and in figures such as John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle and Algernon Charles Swinburne, Wilson discovers something akin to what Schubert Ogden called the «strange witness of unbelief.&raquin figures such as John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle and Algernon Charles Swinburne, Wilson discovers something akin to what Schubert Ogden called the «strange witness of unbelief.»

It strikes me with something akin to terror to think how we permitted ourselves to be taken in, silenced and neutralized, by the boyish grin and a trickle - down prosperity while resurgent racism, Rambo militarism, cultural philistinism, and unregulated, let - them - eat - cake capitalism swaggered across the stage on an eight - year run.

Mr. Thorson makes the serious charge that I draw my conclusions in «something akin to the way in which popular discussions of the theory of relativity used to suggest that it justified relativism in philosophical and moral thinking.»

So what is it about a candidate who says something akin to a «man in the sky inspired me to run for president»?

Whitehead always thought of interactions as (a) involving something much more general than the physical forces contemplated in classical dynamics, involving in fact specificities akin to those contemplated in Information Theory, but (b) always as active ingredients of processes.

Indeed, something akin to Hamburger's own argument, directed explicitly to contemporary church - state issues, has appeared in the pages of this magazine (Michael McConnell, «Why «Separation» Is Not the Key to Church - State Relations,» CHRISTIAN CENTURY, January 18, 1989).

It is interesting in saying you do not believe in Man - God — a tale made up and written down as proof — and that because there is something big i.e. the universe — somehow there has to be something bigger — Man - God and if you do not believe this you think «You are big» i.e. akin to a super-natural being is a logic that can only be rational if the basis for logic is irrational.

For an even more indulgent sweet treat, dip the muffin tops in the vanilla maple glaze, and transform the already lovely and flavorful muffins, into something akin to a gingerbread cake doughnut.

Because I can promise you that reducing the sugar will result in something more akin to cake (I tried).

The aromas of dried rosemary, smoke and something akin to cheddar crowd and jostle against one another in the shiver - cool space, so concentrated that a visitor's Pavlovian hunger pangs war with a fight - or - flight response to such pungency.

The original Reggie went toe - to - toe with his manager, swung the bat as if each time were his last and, what's more, did something that both enraged and delighted fans: He stood at home plate and had the nerve to admire his homers, something akin to making love in front of a mirror.

What I am proposing is something akin to the strike zone in baseball.

Until we cease to buy our season tickets, which for many is akin to taking out a second mortgage, the ludicrous salaries paid to players and Managers will continue to increase.With regard to the present crop of Arsenal players some may lack the guts and determination of the ex players you mention but at the end of the day the problem at the club now is a lack of quality particularly through the spine of the team.Virtually all our fans recognise the need for quality in Goal, at Centre Back and DM.Unfortunately the one man who is in a position to do something about it does not seem to agree with us.

It wasn't a buzzer beater and it didn't come at a critical point in the game, but Loyola Marymount's C.J. Blackwell pulled off something more akin to a trick shot than what one would see during live action.

Van Dijk possesses the qualities we have criticised and we don't want sanchez to have — by it i mean being complicit in being tapped - up and going behind his clubs back something akin to being a mercenary.

Arsenal fans may start to feel that the transfer action at the club is something akin to the London buses that go past the ground, as in you wait for ages and then three come along at the same time.

I won't go so far as to suggest that the departure of Čech was akin to pulling out the wrong pin from a Jenga tower, but maybe there's something in that.

The club is starting to reek of a stench of failure and hints at something truly amiss; it is akin to a dead bandicoot in your car, you can smell the god - awful stench but you won't know the source until you hold your nose and go on a rat - hunt to locate and dispose the rotting carcass.

I was expecting something spectacular akin to a rocket from the half way that bounced off three push wins before hitting all three sides of the goal before deflecting in off the goal keeper.

But I need something that's not in your face or outside the mainstream, just informative so that when he and I talk about how we want to do things he's got the right info and not what his mother has said worked for her over 40 years ago (and I'm beginning to fear that this parenting experience might be akin to raising a child with an in - law!).

Thankfully I think surgery can be avoided and I will visit Doctor # 4 in December to determine the correct «hinge position» and get set up with something akin to invisalign.

This is important, because the removal of breastfeeding photos implies that breastfeeding is something to be done in private, or worse, something akin to pornography.

In the context of the European political axis, India was given independence by the British in reaction to a movement lead by a fairly «left - leaning» activist that advocated multiculturalism, localism, and socialism - something akin to the Green parties in EuropIn the context of the European political axis, India was given independence by the British in reaction to a movement lead by a fairly «left - leaning» activist that advocated multiculturalism, localism, and socialism - something akin to the Green parties in Europin reaction to a movement lead by a fairly «left - leaning» activist that advocated multiculturalism, localism, and socialism - something akin to the Green parties in Europin Europe.

Belief in gender (as something distinct from one's biological sex) is akin to religion.

Actually there are other kinds of foreign policy risks they may be managing, and that they are given strategic powers to deal with — economic risk, threats to our national economy which in practise may mean something more akin to industrial espionage, as certainly seems to be the case in the USA.

Thinking of pensions as something more akin to public goods such as education or infrastructure — where what you pay in and what you get out are basically uncorrelated — will be a tough sell to the electorate and will take a lot of political capital.

It is a long held view of the former home secretary that the creation of a government controlled version of the internet, something akin to the censorship seen in China, is the key to adapting to the threats of the modern world.

Nonetheless, some analysts contend that the entire system should be transformed into something akin to the 401 (k) retirement plans increasingly used by workers in private industry.