Sentence examples for like a raid from inspiring English sources

The result was a little too much like a raid on the wardrobe of President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan.

"It was a raiders' attack, just like a raid on a business in the 1990s," Mr. Prokhorov said, before signing a paper that he said expelled disloyal members of the party, and then demonstratively holding it before cameras.

Their staff's complaint about pensions looked quaint on the day that Argentina's government said it would nationalise the country's private-pension accounts in what looked to some like a raid to help it meet upcoming debt payments.

His arrest was like a raid in hostile territory, spearheaded by Federal Security Service (FSB) special forces brought in from outside the republic, backed with armoured vehicles and helicopter gunships.

But the officials said they would deport any of the participants in the suits if they were picked up in the course of another immigration service action, like a raid on an employer.

Analysts said the moves against Vladimir Yevtushenkov this week looked like a raid on his business by Kremlin-connected forces, and were a sign of an intensifying battle for a "shrinking pie" of resources.

"What has happened in the black community is like a raided African village where they came and took the best and strongest and left behind the weaker ones, the ones least able to move forward," Campbell says.

She stages dramatic revolutionary happenings, like leading a raid by dispossessed Native Americans on a US base, in order to promote her film career.

PHILIP GOUREVITCH: It seems entirely likely that in a raid like that on a house where some are armed and some are not and it's a life and death battle, some of the people who get killed would be unarmed.

Frankly, I enjoy a game that I don't need to play every week to stay on top of, even if I'd like a less maddening Raid.

"People would make jokes about it, even before we'd go into a raid, like, Oh fucking we're gonna get the wrong house," he said.