Sentence examples for doing something akin from inspiring English sources

The partners say they are doing something akin to teleportation.

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.

Here's Godard, in 1956, on the subject: "To direct a film is to plot; one says of a plot that it is well or badly mounted [montée]." The "montage" of a plot is exactly what Katz is up to, and what his characters are up to: by carrying out his machination, the amateur detective is doing something akin to movie-making.

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.

So, don't expect to line up behind your "favourite" prisoner, or join a campaign to discredit the most "evil" guard (although in Zimbardo the inmates did something akin to this, by nicknaming the harshest guard "John Wayne" and gossiping about the value of fellow inmates).

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.