Sentence examples for bore striking from inspiring English sources

The official said the killing bore striking similarities to the murders in January 2009 of Stanislav Markelov, a lawyer who had represented hate-crime victims, and a young reporter who had been walking beside him, Anastasia Baburova.

They bore striking similarities to the items recovered after the raid in Durham.

Two mismatches that occurred soon thereafter bore striking resemblance to the case of Ms. Santillán.

What followed next bore striking resemblance to the fate which befell plenty others in the field.

The attacks bore striking similarities to a suicide attack in Suruc in July this year that killed 33 pro-Kurdish activists.

The furore over her Republican party convention speech, which bore striking similarities to a speech by Michelle Obama, may tempt her to stay behind the scenes.

One example from Algeria is adorned with a graceful Moorish arch; another, created by Zemah Davidsohn in New York in 1863, bears striking similarities to contemporary Shaker gift drawings.

"In many ways, the city of Mumbai bears striking similarities to New York," Mr. Kelly said at a meeting of hotel security officials and other business people.

In the Iliad, Patroclus, who dies as a substitute for his king and dearest friend, Achilles, and then gives Achilles a description of the miserable condition of man after his death, bears striking similarities to the friend of Gilgamesh, Enkidu.

"Velvet Goldmine," which is set mostly in London in the early 1970's, follows the rise, fall and mysterious disappearance of Brian Slade, a David Bowie-like superstar whose stage alter-ego, Maxwell Demon, bears striking similarities to Mr. Bowie's most notorious invention, that flame-haired, extraterrestrial androgyne Ziggy Stardust.

Indeed, the novel bears striking similarities to an essay he wrote for The New York Review of Books called "Edward Wilson in Benares," an autobiographical account of a young Indian man reading Flaubert and Wilson in Benares, struggling to understand Western culture and, in encounters with a student named Rajesh, his own country.