Sentence examples for are roughly akin from inspiring English sources

Among the likeliest is a breast-cancer medicine known as 572016, or just "016", whose "mechanism of action" and molecular targets are roughly akin to Genentech's Herceptin a commercial hit for that firm.

"It's roughly akin to China and the U.S. It gives rise to many tensions".

It is roughly akin to putting the head mechanic in charge of an entire airline.

That practice was roughly akin to taking the rent money to the racetrack.

That is roughly akin to a German government newspaper (if such a thing existed) promoting Holocaust denial.

His announcement was roughly akin to declaring it daytime at 3 A.M. because the sun will rise eventually.

This is roughly akin to teaching a young child to identify a class of barking animals with the name DOG.

That is roughly akin, in the Cajun universe, to describing Graceland as the house belonging to Gladys Presley's son.

His announcement was roughly akin to declaring it daytime at 3 *A.M. *because the sun will rise eventually.

The move is roughly akin to Warren Sapp selling off his massive collection of Air Jordans, or Jean Dujardin auctioning off his furniture in "The Artist".

As acts of betrayal go, this was roughly akin to Johnny Damon's shaving off his beard, forsaking the Red Sox Nation, and joining the Yankees.