This is akin to state-sanctioned torture.
To his detriment Gary also left a cyber note saying that American foreign policy was akin to state-sponsored terrorism.
Admittedly, he left cheeky messages about the lax security in the system and added that American foreign policy was akin to state-sponsored terrorism, the sort of remark that countless politicians and commentators – including many in the US – have made many, many times, most recently over the use of drones.
Summing up the experiences of 130,000 people like this is akin to stating New York "isn't what it used to be", shamelessly reductive.
It may be akin to stating that a green light follows amber when pointing out that the Scottish game has lagged, perhaps terminally but certainly meaningfully, behind its continental equivalent.
In Brazil, a ramped-up drug war and more police impunity will have a devastating impact on a black population already experiencing something akin to state-sanctioned genocide: Each year, black Brazilians make up three-quarters of all homicide victims and nearly 80percentt of those killed by police.
Which is ridiculous, of course, because that's assuming that writing books is an effortless undertaking (an assumption very much akin to stating that all New Yorkers are Yankee fans: simply untrue).
Ireland, Greece, Spain, and Portugal are the clearest examples of countries which are storing up major trouble - and without the currency escape hatch - which makes these countries more akin to states like California, Michigan, or New York than the U.S. Sovereign credit ratings have been cut repeatedly in Ireland, Portugal and Greece.
This allows us to recreate a state of co-expression of Epi and PrE determinants akin to the state of ICM cells in the embryo, and to follow the resolution of this state in real time.
