Sentences with phrase «somewhat akin»

For many Mormons, the first line of help outside the family is often the local bishop, a role somewhat akin to a pastor or a rabbi.

However, the quality of these enhancements needs to be consistently high to match user expectation — somewhat akin to an avid cycling fan expecting medal after medal for Team GB in the Velodrome.

The actual Shield device looks like a standard console controller with a smartphone stuck on top, somewhat akin to the Moga Pro.

Hot storage is like the wallets that you carry around in your pocket, while the Cold storage is somewhat akin to your savings bank account.

Some of the biggest features here include Blinkfeed, a social and news aggregator that is somewhat akin to Flipboard.

Well that's because the earpiece also doubles as a loudspeaker in a configuration somewhat akin to HTC's current implementation of BoomSound.

It's is somewhat akin to Quick Charge in that it uses higher - than - average voltages to achieve faster charging, but there's slightly more to it than meets the eye.

The interface looks somewhat akin to Codecademy, but it's far more graphical and playful, which makes sense, given that the target audience is kids.

This case is somewhat akin to deciding a dispute between Darth Vader and the Borg, or if you prefer a classical metaphor, Scylla and Charybdis.

Now it's somewhat akin to «the pot to be calling the kettle black» for me, of all people, to be pointing out spelling mistakes and typos (after all, my indiscretions in this regard are legendary), but the Nulethics» website prose is rife with

This compact, sleek - looking Moveo electric scooter has a surprise: when you hop off, you can fold it neatly into a moveable package, somewhat akin to an oversized roller suitcase.

Anderegg leaned on a self - selected measure of attitudes that was already preexisting and not intended for research purposes, somewhat akin to using drivers license data to tease out attitudes to organ donation versus age or the like.

Gavin's pussycat: This is one of the mechanisms of «meme - laundering», somewhat akin to the general form of money - laundering.

Invoking RICO is somewhat akin to treating a cancer patient with a 45 caliber hollow point to the brain.

... if you're not up for playing the DIY game,... Asking how much does it cost to build a tiny house is somewhat akin to the... -LSB-...]

Probably because doing so is somewhat akin to expecting your doctor to explain why it's a bad thing that oxygen can't enter your circulatory system as easily when you have pneumonia; the expectation is that your expertise on your own metabolism encompasses the concept of oxygen as a metabolite.

I thank Lou Gold down in Brazil for prompting this to some extent, in part by drawing my attention to Andrew Sullivan's notion that managing The Daily Dish is somewhat akin to being a deejay for ideas.

Tracking scientific progress has become somewhat akin to the old art of Kremlinology — sifting for subtle shifts of language showing that vexing questions are being resolved.

President Obama is in a situation right now somewhat akin to that facing the creatures that once prowled the edges of the La Brea tar pits — a sticky trap that caught and consumed the least wary or agile members of many species.

It's gotten to the point where the United States Geological Survey has developed state - by - state lists of threatened and extinct stream gauges — somewhat akin to the «Red List» of endangered species maintained by conservation organizations.

It's somewhat akin to what my son Jack and I described in our video and my post earlier this year on herons in a mangrove patch amid Florida's suburban maze — that if you give nature, or a farmer, a little breathing room, the payback is enormous.

Kiesler's concept of the «polydimensional» was somewhat akin to Surrealist automatic drawings.

Their own names therefore have unfortunately come to be replaced by the inclusive term «Wells Street» — a kind of Corporate Artist somewhat akin to Dada's «Exquisite Corpse.

Rather, each motif is composed of dozens of different but related colours, a technique somewhat akin to the refracted surfaces of Cubism, but more manic and less geometric.

«Thought - provoking... [Falconer] writes well, cites many a worthwhile quotation, and includes lots of good reproduction... Useful primer... Enjoyable... A huge achievement, somewhat akin to Norbert Lynton's The Story of Modern Art.»

It is a moment somewhat akin to the idea of a divine breath, breathing life in and out behind the mirage of imagery that our senses experience.

This game appears somewhat akin to Castlevania and its contemporaries at first glance but turns out to put fighting over jumping as the chief modicum of action.

The story itself is quite interesting, as you explore the run - down mansion, and the Croft family history through letters and recordings somewhat akin to the indie hit Gone Home.

Regarding Randy's game suggestion: there are parts of Assassin's Creed: Revelations that are somewhat akin to what he described.

Many, many retirees here in the US rely on Social Security income, which is somewhat akin to what you're talking about over there.

What we are seeing now, though, with posturing and whispers about what the Fed might do in relation to rates, is increased volatility which makes investing in the stock market somewhat akin to being on a roller coaster for many investors.

With the Asus MeMo Pad, it comes with a 10.1 - inch display at 1,280 x 800 pixel resolution, a 1.2 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad - core processor, 1 GB RAM, and 16 GB of internal memory, retailing for $ 299 a pop, making it somewhat akin to a Nexus 7 albeit with a larger viewing real estate.

It's somewhat akin to having to make up your mind between chocolate or vanilla with both of them being equally appealing.

In our own families I believe the act of preparing food and eating together is somewhat akin to forming the «soul» of the family.

Once the puddle was hit, we expected the usual forced braking action somewhat akin to running into a wall.

The effect is somewhat akin to those old handshake zappers available at gag shops and Spencer's gifts....

A continuation of a design theme first seen on the 2007 Golf GTI W12 - 650 concept, and somewhat akin to the upcoming Ford GT, these floating pillars serve to send airflow to aerodynamic features and cooling ducts for the rear brakes.

Twelve states set a minimum pay scale and allow local districts to exceed that number, somewhat akin to the way local supplements allow certain North Carolina districts to offer more lucrative pay today.

I imagine editing a book series is somewhat akin to curating an art show or even a film retrospective: in all three cases the curators / editors need to present works tied together with a thematic thread.

Somewhat akin to sprinting to spear an unsuspecting ruminant.

Neural nets process information by passing it through a hierarchy of interconnected layers, somewhat akin to the brain's biological circuitry.

Somewhat akin to the «deep grammar» that Chomsky believes underlies all human language, these core knowledge modules enable all infants to organize their perceptions.

These distinct, sharp - edged features — somewhat akin to bathtub rings — suggest that each of the comet's lumps has an outer shell of onionlike layers that is at least several hundred meters deep, the researchers report online today in Nature.

Curbing greenhouse gases is somewhat akin to a farmer planting a tree, Doniger said.

Scientists don't fully understand what's driving Jupiter's strongest auroras, but data gathered by the orbiting Juno spacecraft hint that the electrons generating Jupiter's polar glows may be accelerated by turbulent waves in the planet's magnetic field — a process somewhat akin to surfers being driven shoreward ahead of breaking ocean waves, the researchers report today in Nature.

This is somewhat akin to not having to buy car insurance until you had a wreck.

I hope you like your daily dose of Delany, though: I'll be moderating three panels, and the legendary Julie Germany and I are official honorary Co-Chairs (which I believe is somewhat akin to being named Prom Queen and King — we'll be the ones in the tiaras).

It's somewhat akin to England's cricket coach Peter Moores reassuring you that his team is performing well in training.

This solution would be somewhat akin to the status devised by the League of Nations in 1921 for the Aaland Islands, disputed at the time between Finland and Sweden.

Forcing school programs to choose between being sure that there are sufficient portions of expensive fruits and veggies available and offered vs having the funds to repair or replace a milk box or convection oven is somewhat akin to the old saying of «cutting off your nose to spite your face.»