Sentence examples for akin to causing from inspiring English sources

Millions of Americans believe that life begins at conception and consequently that an abortion is akin to causing the death of an innocent child; they recoil at the thought of a law that would permit it.

Stressing his deep respect for Islam, in his statement to the court and five sitting judges, Ahok also mentioned his beloved Muslim godparents, saying that insulting Islam was akin to causing deep offence to his own family, an infraction he would never willingly commit.

The measures enforced by the troika have created an economic contraction akin to that caused by war.

In my response to James Delingpole's comment piece on GTA 5 earlier this week, I argued that the moral panic surrounding games was akin to the worry caused by the advent of rock'n'roll or video nasties – the older generation fearing some new madness of youth.

Conversely, it has also been shown in rats that induction of a positive affective state through tickling, measured by the production of 50-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations that are proposed to be akin to human laughter, causes a positive CAB (Rygula et al., 2012).

Importantly, all of these mutations cause neurological phenotypes and, akin to the mutations that cause RDP and FHM, these new alleles are missense mutations.

In paraphrase, that there is suffering, that we will experience it and even much of what we currently experience as something akin to happiness, is actually causing us suffering.

Akin to global Perp deficiency causing impaired desmosome function in the oral mucosa and epidermis, associated with blistering and early lethality [ 20], Perp loss in the mammary epithelium also compromises mammary gland homeostasis in vivo by promoting immune cell recruitment.

He says, "When the public asks, 'Did climate change cause this?' they are asking a confused question" -- one akin to asking if steroids caused a specific home run by Barry Bonds.

The medical professionals have said it was their duty to treat anyone who arrived at the hospital and have rejected accusations that treating protesters was akin to supporting their cause.

That is expected to cause widespread hand-wringing, akin to America's "Sputnik moment," when the Soviet Union beat it to become the first country to launch a satellite.