Sentences with phrase «time akin»

Unfortunately, many people consider networking events as nothing more than social time akin to a cocktail party.

It creates a power - saving dimmed display and still shows the time akin to a traditional watch.

Not exact matches

Wheeler's «split the baby» approach to the contentious net neutrality debate, reported on over the weekend by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, would effectively reclassify Internet service providers as public utilities akin to the phone companies under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, but only in dealing with large content providers such as Netflix and Google's Youtube.

While many in the financial industry predict it's just a matter of time until regulators subject cryptocurrencies to stiffer regulation, proponents argue that over-regulation would be akin to impeding the rise of the internet.

Most of the time these regulations are just background noise, but at the heart of most passenger horror stories lies some rule that transformed an ordinary service interaction into something more akin to a police stop.

The fish he was used to seeing swim around the reef had dwindled and given way to lionfish, newcomers capable of eating 30 times their resting stomach volume, according to Lad Akins, Reef Environmental Education Foundation director of special projects.

Several times a year, VarsityBooks.com even flies the student reps to attend two - day conferences akin to corporate sales meetings.

At the same time, others warn that loud calls for banking reform to help smaller institutions is akin to a wolf - in - sheep's - clothing mission to win relief for bigger banks, too.

The reality today is that buyer decision models may have appearances akin to disparate networks and at times be very asymmetrical.

Do they find themselves akin to being in the middle of Times Square with flashing billboards, bright lights, and the consistent horns of taxi cabs?

This is not the first time this crowd has viewed American law - enforcement officials operating under a lawful search warrant as being akin to Nazis.

We are creating a system of on - demand labor akin to «cloud - based labor» where companies «provision» labor resources at will and release them at will, not by the year or month but by the job, labor unit, or small time unit, including minutes.

«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.

And even scientists such as Vilenkin who co-authored the paper that suggests that this universe being past infinite is unlikely reveals that many assumptions were made (akin to working in a sterile environment), and that their theorem didn't suggest anything beyond the space - time boundary; didn't rule out multi-verse and other theories under consideration.

Our profound and utterly ridiculous self - seeking first regards those times as happy which are in some way akin to our nature.

At the time, she wrote about the threat of excommunication in her church, calling it «akin to spiritual death.»

As a naturally free spirited, independent and rather bohemian young female (at the time) the spiritual, psychological, emotional abuse was akin to being in an abusive marriage.

For me, it mirrored the culture of the time, as it went from»70s emphasis on community and freedomto explore, to»80s emphasis on power and certainty — akin to the «conviction» politics of Thatcher.

Ishmael was born of Sarai's maidservant (a common custom for barren women in ancient times was to give a maidservant to her husband to bear the child — akin to surrogacy and then claim the child as her own for inheritance purposes).

To succeed, more time is needed to convince the rest of American culture that opposition to homosexuality and same - sex marriage is akin to invidious discrimination.

As time goes on there is greater and greater pressure to just view this immoral behavior which Paul specifically speaks of, as just a plain old sin, akin to stubbing your toe and shouting some expletives.

A Vatican official at the time offered the opinion that the critique's negative remarks about the theology of Karl Rahner were akin to «attacking granny.»

At the same time, my perception of nature is more akin to that of Anglo - American Romanticism.

I feel like a burden has been lifted off my back; a feeling of taking a step into the unknown; akin to the sensation I experienced when I did cliff - diving for the first and only time in Boracay, Philippines.

«That first request, at the time, was akin to requesting that the creamery manufacture chocolate - flavored cottage cheese.»

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.

Now, as we walked to the office and my knees slowly turned from rubber to bone, I began to feel a sensation somewhat akin to exhilaration for the first time, and with it came a talking jag.

It's akin to when an announcer drops the ICYMI nugget that Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas are friends, as if you'd not heard so the prior 250 times.

talk about skewing the stats to fit your own conclusions... this is like a slap in the face to every real Arsenal fan... have you no shame, have you no dignity, have you no sense of right from wrong... if you think everything was so well orchestrated why is everyone and their brother laughing at the way in which we conduct business both on and off the field... either you're a paid hack or a delusional buffoon... regardless you can't be a genuine Arsenal fan because the difficulties facing this club having been going on for years and this latest episode in our pathetic recent history is but a glaring reminder of how far we have fallen... I'm not going to waste my time discrediting every single ridiculous statement you made in your love letter to Wenger, but if you write another article I will gladly expose you for the fraud you truly are... this club is in desperate need of a serious cleansing and for you to try and package this dog and pony show as a well - oiled machine is a direct insult to anyone who has supported this team during the supposed «lean» years... the deceptive and disrespectful manner in which this organization has treated it's fans is an abomination to supporters everywhere and for you to even try to justify their actions is akin to saying just shut - up and keep filling our pockets... so please crawl back under whatever stone you crawled out from under and think carefully before you spew this type of propaganda ever again

Blinky enjoys the warmest friendship with the Akins management and occupied a seat of honor directly behind Akins» corner, to which he offered encouragement from time to time.

For the first time, we have scheduled a ladies» fixture list complete with tournaments and matches akin to that of the men's squad.

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.

Hooked at half - time in Huddersfield akin to the contingency substitution of last season in the Manchester derby that United were collectively outplayed in, Mkhitaryan has once again suffered to replicate any kind of consistency showed in the opening weeks in the last two months.

Mahrez's ability to take the ball into tight spaces and come out the other side, and beat multiple opponents with his runs on the ball, has been akin to how the danger of Eden Hazard saw him occupy two or more defenders himself for at times for Chelsea last year.

At the time of Makelele's sale he even described the departure of his fellow French international as being akin to selling the engine from a gold - plated Bentley.

, and the West Rutland Art Park (which seems akin to the deCordova), but needed to edit our plans given timing — I hope to fulfill this mission soon!

Adult structure helps by recognizing and providing the time, space, and conditions for an infant to sleep and rest, but doing any more would be akin to trying to force teeth to appear in different places in the mouth at different times.

The company has worked with cooperatives throughout Africa to utilize their sustainable ingredients for over a decade, so when time came to reformulate its famous Organic Shea Lip Butters, akin to lips such as Shea Terra Organics» fan Angelina Jolie, Tammie knew just where to begin.

It's akin to someone crying wolf all the time; eventually, you would tune it out.

They are encouraged to view this special time as akin to defecating, as they are both bodily functions -LRB-!)

Yes, tomato sauce is messy, but hopefully by now you've realized avoiding a toddler mess at meal time is akin to avoiding hearing about the Kardashians.

To me, it doesn't recall movie promos, but is more akin to a bueinss stating, «If you read the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, you've seen our ads» — in other words, citing an authoritative source and saying that the source itself endorses the content.

This was the first time in recent years that, an opposition leader had spoken at the gathering of all who matter in the Presby Church, in a manner akin to a campaign rally with policies espoused and political promises made.

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.

«At the same time this platform explicitly seeks to transform the party from the traditional centralised party organisation into something more akin to a mass social movement, responding to the rising demand for greater activist engagement.»

That is why each time NDC is forming government there is no proposal to appoint anyone to a status akin to the position of a Prime Minister such as a «Senior Minister».

It allows Labour to leave the single market but then unilaterally offer something akin to free movement - this time as a decision of the British government rather than a rule of membership from Brussels.

That's akin to building a brand new case and appearing before a judge for the first time.

Now Pääbo and his colleagues have devised a new method of genetic analysis that allowed them to reconstruct the entire Denisovan genome with nearly all of the genome sequenced approximately 30 times over akin to what we can do for modern humans.