"The media is going to run us into the ground about this," she said of Mr. Akin's situation.
Republican aides declined to discuss Mr. Akin's situation or the party platform, referring questions about Mr. Akin to the public comments Mr. Romney has made in interviews.
Interestingly, efforts by psychologists to model decision-making in situations akin to the original position show that people in practice tend to choose a principle that calls for the maximization of average well-being subject to the constraint that nobody falls below a specified floor (see Frolich and Oppenheimer 1992).
It is, in short, a situation akin to the earliest days of cinema.The tools will also have to improve.
It is a situation akin to baseball's Class AAA where there is a wide range in potential ages among the players.
It's a situation akin to the disappearance of the formal engagement and wedding portraits, courtesy of Bachrach, that were once a staple of newspaper society pages.
Then the robot can add weight, making the limb heavier, so the patient can mirror a situation akin to living without the robot.
Now, this might push us into a situation akin to what Simon Kuznets found himself in when he was formulating ways to measure the national economy — confronting all sorts of data but no real coherence.
Dr. Abramson said one kit he was given had implements for ventilating a patient unable to breathe, but no bag to push air into the patient — a situation akin to having a gasoline nozzle and tank, but no fuel.
The stalemate has been something akin to the situation leading up to the First World War: all parties knew a disaster loomed but were unable to find a way to stop it.
Without his calmness and scrutiny of the electoral process, a situation akin to what occurred in Kenya in 2007/08 – when the losers refused to accept the result, and murderous chaos ensued – may have occurred.
