Sentence examples for do something akin from inspiring English sources
Drug companies know how to attack it, so they do — something akin to looking for lost keys under the lamppost because that is where the light is.
So basically the best way to target this is to do something akin to a plank on a foam roller (thought this was going to be fun? I do hope not).
David Mahfouda of the Fixers Collective, a Brooklyn group, will teach the lost art of repairing household appliances; Steve Gerberich will lead a group in creating kinetic sculptures of animals; and Christian Cerrito will give a workshop on "art bots," simple machines that do something akin to finger painting when they're put on a sheet of paper smeared with pigment.
It was a must-read among Chinese news workers, and in it she posed a challenge: Who among them "could take the initiative and do something akin to what American news organizations have done?" In 1998, Hu received a phone call from Wang Boming, one of the hotel-room founders of the Stock Exchange Executive Council; he was starting a magazine and he wanted her to run it.
And so it struck me -- if in "Hoop Dreams" we were trying to look at the American dream through the eyes of inner-city black families and these two boys aspiring to make it, it would be really interesting to do something akin to that with contemporary immigrants and look at the American dream and the American myth of the melting pot through their eyes.
Sagan is a personal hero of Finman's and he says he wanted to do something akin to the Golden Record to remind us about this time in world history.
Hare's hero in Page Eight is doing something akin, as somebody puts it in his film, to "a dishonourable job in an honourable way".
In "It's Never Just Black or White" (On the Contrary, Jan . 2, Daniel Akst suggested that by making young, single men pay higher premiums, auto insurers were doing something akin to racial profiling by the police.
Since observers have previously suggested that the Air Force pilots who sit in their flight suits at the base in Nevada, using joysticks to control drones flying over remote war zones, are doing something akin to playing a video game, the implication that some of them might be recreational gamers is not surprising.
Or the Federal Reserve could underwrite the plan; the central bank's chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, recently talked about the Fed's doing something akin to the Bank of England's new Funding for Lending program, which offers incentives to banks to increase lending to households and nonfinancial businesses.
