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The phrase "akin problem" is not correct in standard written English.
The correct expression would be "akin to a problem" or "an akin problem" depending on the context.
Example: "The issues we are facing are akin to a problem we encountered last year."
Alternatives: "similar issue" or "related problem."
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"We don't think he has an Akin problem".
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But Akin's problems did eventually become Romney's problems, and he was forced to meet the task of "distancing" himself from Akin head-on.
This was akin to problem-oriented policing being developed by Herman Goldstein in the US at same time to sharpen police practices in relation to specific forms of crime, using more analytic and focussed thinking.
He claims that there are two sorts of problems that face every research tradition: empirical problems (akin to Kuhnian anomalies); and conceptual problems (i.e., problems of consistency, either internal or with dominant traditions in other fields).
Sure, the outrageous statements by Republican Senate candidates like Mourdock and Akin were a problem, but an even bigger problem has been the over-the-top partisanship in recent years from Republican members of Congress like Eric Cantor, Jim DeMint, Rand Paul, and Darrell Issa.
Akin to the problem of learning are the relatively complex activities of reasoning, problem solving, and intelligent and linguistic behaviour.
(In that regard, it is akin to the problem that confronted designers of the space shuttle decades ago).
Each installment also includes at least one sample problem akin to those found on Part I. Professor Fisher is also accepting questions from the studying audience.
Mr. Mukasey said in June that the mortgage crisis was a different "type of phenomena" that was a more localized problem akin to "white-collar street crime".
Mr. Serra must also resolve a problem akin to that faced by Al Gore in the United States when he ran for president two years ago.
At the other extreme of consumer behavior, the dynamic approach leads to an optimal stopping problem akin to pricing an American put option, albeit complicated by the non-traditional payment structure.
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