Sentence examples for is like offering from inspiring English sources
This is like offering crack cocaine to a recovering drug addict.
If you think of a screaming child as an environmental disturbance, then giving a child a discount is like offering a subsidy to a polluter.
This is like offering a library where all the books in it are invisible to the readers unless an author is standing there and personally hands each reader a copy of their book".
But handing citizens oodles of data without providing better means to respond is like offering "a dashboard without a steering wheel", says Clay Shirky, a technology writer.The data deluge should help political debate though, by educating citizens and giving experts more numbers to crunch.
That might have been reasonable in some ancient world, but is hardly right for today's.Selling a precise prediction to an anxious investor is like offering water to a parched explorer lost in the SaharaThe reason is that predictions lead to increased risk taking, hence to the accumulation of fragile exposures in the "tails".
Don't imagine that complexity, chaos theory, agent-based modelling or some other fad narrative will deliver better, more usable predictions than those failed economic methods we are still teaching our university students.The truth is that selling a precise prediction to an anxious investor is like offering water to a parched explorer lost in the Sahara desert.
It would have been like offering SS soldiers UN pensions in the 1960s.
It's like offering an innocent man who doesn't want to be hanged the chance to be poisoned instead.
It would be like offering a devout order of self-flagellating monks an inexhaustible supply of local anaesthetic.
Writing to the man Evelyn Waugh had called "the greatest living writer of the English language, the head of my profession", was like offering a souffle to Bocuse.
Being liberal to those who abused their freedom, Dr Mahathir said, was "like offering a flower to a monkey", which would tear it apart.Under him UMNO, it was joked, came to stand for "Under Mahathir No Opposition".
