Sentences with phrase «life akin»

Qualcomm's color display technology promises color, video - capable e-paper with battery life akin to monochrome E Ink screens.

We've been tracking mirasol for several years now, Qualcomm's color display technology that promises color, video - capable e-paper with battery life akin to monochrome E Ink screens.

Before her conversion to Catholicism in 1927, however, Day lived what the late Cardinal O'Connor of the Archdiocese of New York has referred to as «a life akin to that of the pre-converted Augustine of Hippo.»

Ancient man found himself living in a world which seemed to be a gigantic living entity which could hardly be described as «it», for it pulsated with life akin to that which he experienced in his own person.

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Says one executive brought in by Johnson: «It's akin to people who try to remodel a house when their family is living in it.

I spent the first 13 years of my professional life doing what was more akin to art than to business: commissioning, writing, directing, producing radio, television, films, and music.

But there's plenty that the public needs to remember about Rubin and Citigroup — and that history makes the thrust of Rubin's OpEd akin to a Saturday Night Live satire.

«Anything less than the complete implementation of the fiduciary rule would be akin to sending individual investors into those rough seas without a life jacket.»

As hostile as libertarians are to government, even we believe government can legitimately order the withdrawal of life support, and prohibit parents from moving a child to obtain further treatment, when that treatment would fruitlessly prolong a child's suffering — i.e., when further treatment would be akin to torture.

As a business owner, finding the perfect work - life balance is akin to finding a unicorn.

To embrace only the teachings which one prefers, or those which are easiest to understand or integrate into one's life, is akin to pulling out the tapestry's threads and unraveling the whole.

So, aborting a human life is akin to «murder.»

After hearing countless stories of how pornography has affected the lives of others, I've come to realize that the consequences of porn use are akin to flying bits of shrapnel: painful, unpredictable, and in some ways, fatal to our lives.

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.»

Physicals akin to those required for life insurance - the overly obese will pay signficantly more Medicare and universal health insurance (unless the obesity is caused by a medical condition).

By working to get these recognised as social evils akin to racism or sexism [2] it has been possible to get towards the goal, which is that homosexual behaviour is firmly accepted in society and that society should be indifferent to the form of relationships which individuals choose to enter or make the basis of their family lives.

The «punishment» you refer to is akin to feeling sorry for the infinite number of people who were and will be deprived of life because they were / are never conceived in the first place.

Forcing others to live by your religious beliefs is akin to rape.

This is because the house of god has lost it's way, telling women to live in the dark ages, telling 3rd world countries with rampant HIV and excessive births and infant mortality to continue abstaining and not use appropriate birth control akin to the idiot savant named George W Bush whose policies perpetuated this.

To use a real life example, it would be akin to deciding to choosing to safeguard my house with fire detectors, plenum rated ceiling tiles, non toxic materials and cement fire walls.

Physicals akin to those required for life insurance - the overly ob - ese will pay signficantly more Medicare and universal health insurance (unless the obe - sity is caused by a medical condition).

Others fear this prospect and prefer to believe in fairies and fantasies and are not even ashamed that their mental description of an after life is akin to that of a 5 - year - old's picture book.

It's akin to interviewing people who had near - death experiences, all the same, all from all over the world, then determining that there is, indeed, life after death.

He anticipates a concept of entity that is akin to that of Whitehead, but without deserting the plane of the life world and its unities.

That mankind has in this sense been cowardly has done life endless harm; the experiences that are called «vision,» the whole so - called «spirit - world,» death, all those things that are so closely akin to us, have by daily parrying been so crowded out of life that the senses with which we could have grasped them are atrophied.

I'm not suggesting that having a jerk for a boss is akin to being a slave or a child laborer, but I do believe that if we are going to make our offices, shops and factories the sorts of places we'd like to spend the better part of our waking lives, then change is just as likely to come from the Church as from anywhere else.

It is unfortunate that a country of this stature, who rules the world, from the skies like a god, and lacks comprehensive leadership to deal with these pressing issues... where are the Presidents akin to our late leaders that took the initiative and got things done, America has become a cold, hostile place to live, We lack the sense of unity that made us what we are... There are hundreds of thousand unemployed, Why can't the government promote an agency akin to the peace corps, that utilizes the young folks sitting on their a $ $ and make them earn their unemployment check by working in this storm zone, to rehabilitate and get these folks back on their feet... it would promote a culture of selflessness and charity and would without a question cause a paradigm shift in the minds of our youth, This is what makes a nation great!

This was one of the few compeltely selfless acts Ive had in my life, because the very thought of spending hours inside four concrete walls in a stiff church service were akin to drinking rat poison.

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.

Losing the conference championship game & then playing host to the Super Bowl is akin to losing the love of your life to your rival and then hosting their wedding at your house.

The new hero, Ray Wilkins (who had captained the side at just 18 years of age), had to be sold to Manchester United to help stabilise the team but with managers being changed at a rate akin to the modern game — three in four years — the Blues were set to begin life in the «80s in the second tier.

The new system could be an opportunity to make a clear new cultural statement about fatherhood, with higher expectations on their involvement — akin to the expectation on mothers — in a way that would make it less acceptable for fathers to drift out of their children's lives.

I've come to think of getting married as more akin to college or high school graduation than a romantic gesture or the real - life fairtyale we're led to believe it will be.

As I have mentioned, life has been a bit akin to a dumpster fire lately and this is clearly been taking a toll on my health.

They have become akin to a woman's life source, doctors, nurses, midwives, and friends... Continue reading →

That would be akin to me saying my husband's hugely diminished income designing houses is the fault of anyone living in a subdivision or repo'd house because they refuse to give my hubby the business.

Channel your inner director in this hands - on, tech - based workshop series for teens at Hamilton Grange Library on Mon., Aug. 10th at 1 p.m. Using an iPad, participants will bring clay, pipe cleaners, and other craft materials to life, creating a stop - motion video akin to the films Coraline or The Boxtrolls.

Scaling their model up to a shark 21 feet long and weighing 7,300 pounds — akin to the largest of living white sharks — they found that such an animal opening its jaws to a 35 degree angle could squeeze its prey with almost 4,000 pounds of force.

The oscillation is a pattern of climate variability akin to El Niño and La Niña — weather patterns caused by periodic warming and cooling of ocean temperatures in the Pacific — except it is longer - lived.

Then slower - growing critters that invest time digesting complex molecules that are energetically expensive to consume move in, akin to the colonization of a field by shrubs and then long - lived trees.

He says it's akin to «the worst flu of one's life», accompanied by sweats and chills, vomiting and aches.

I think James Gunn, the author of the 1972 science fiction novel «The Listeners» about radio astronomy and the search for other life in the universe, said it well: «It may be that there is no one out there or if there is someone out there he will never speak to us or we to him, but our listening is an act of faith akin to living itself.

The process that gives rise to these quasiparticles is akin to the way energy turns into short - lived «virtual» particles and back into energy again in the vacuum of space, according to Einstein's famous equation E = mc2.

Reduced expression of the Indy (= I'm Not Dead Yet) gene, which encodes a cell surface transporter for tri - and dicarboxylic acids, prolongs life and health span in a manner akin to caloric restriction in D. melanogaster and C. elegans.

Critics call this procedure akin to choosing the importance of one life (aging) over another (embryonic).

These tenants for living are akin to the Golden Rule we all have heard «treat others how you want to be treated,» this limb just gives us the directions on how to do that.

If you're leading a stressful life, taking more estrogen to pump up your energy is akin to taking drugs such as speed — it may produce a temporary high, but there's always a corresponding low to follow.

Gaia herself is akin to a living symphony.

Prana, akin to the Taoist term Chi, references the universal energy which informs all life through inspiration and expiration.

However, this is something akin to looking at somebody who smoked their whole life and never got lung cancer.