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.
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).
He views the sessions as akin to state driving tests.
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.
Things also began to deteriorate in Cuba in the 90s, during the Special Period, when the fall of the Soviet Union, a corrupt Communist system more akin to state capitalism, essentially put the kibosh on its strongest economic support.
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.
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.
In this article, we recall different approaches to the constraint-based, symbolic analysis of hybrid discrete-continuous systems and combine them to a technology able to address hybrid systems exhibiting both non-deterministic and probabilistic behavior akin to infinite-state Markov decision processes.
