Sentence examples for bore too close from inspiring English sources
Last year, for example, a court in Düsseldorf ruled that Samsung could not sell one of its Galaxy tablet devices in Germany because it bore too close a resemblance to the iPad 2 from Apple.
When Jonathan Kent's production of Tosca opened two years ago, there were mutterings that it bore too close a resemblance to its predecessor, the 1964 Franco Zeffirelli staging that served the Royal Opera for four decades.
The only tiny speck of grit in the vaseline for Mr Fellowes must have been the complaints in the press that certain aspects of Downton Abbey bore too close a resemblance to other works.
The release of "Phone Booth," scheduled for November 2002, was postponed by 20th Century Fox because the film's plot bore too close a resemblance to the sniper attacks then unfolding around Washington. "Phone Booth" is scheduled to be released on April 4.
Fronting the Boomtown Rats's first gig in 27 years, a snakeskin-suit-clad Bob Geldof was, as ever, a tremendously entertaining mouthpiece for a decidedly middling band, while the endearingly personable Paloma Faith sadly bore too close a resemblance to a foghorn to be a truly captivating torch singer.
PAGE A21 New York Report JUDGE RULES AGAINST AUTHOR Of Harry Potter Guidebook In a 68-page ruling, Judge Robert P. Patterson Jr. of Federal District Court in Manhattan blocked the publication of a Harry Potter lexicon written by Steven Vander Ark, saying that the book bore too close a resemblance to the best-selling works by J. K. Rowling.
Away We Go has an easy, no-particular-place-to-go looseness that doesn't bear too close a scrutiny, but has a certain likability.
(I'd lose the marbleized stockings that bear too close a resemblance to varicose veins).
Vans, a longtime purveyor to surfers and skateboarders, contends that a new offering by Skechers U.S.A. bears far too close a resemblance to its own checked pattern.
When wayward bears come too close, watchmen at first use scare tactics to frighten them back out onto the tundra, firing whistling flares, cracker shells and rubber bullets.
