And this is made worse by Chinese officials who treat Tibet as their personal inheritance, and behave like latter-day feudal lords.
But the human rights organisation said those who had used their veto in the assembly were "like latter-day King Canutes, trying in vain to hold back the tide of equality".
But unless you like latter-era thrash then don't waste your time; this, like Sarcófago and Sepultura, is the true bastard metal sound.
So why can't Russia's newly rich accept Soviet style, even if they live like latter-day czars?
Evangelicals can sound uncomfortably like latter-day Dr Livingstones, determined to convert the heathen to Christianity and abstinence.
On my visits, the waitresses seemed to all have dark hair in topknots, like latter-day Frida Kahlos.
On the theatre's roof the four actors who perform Made in China's Get Stuff Break Free line up like latter-day pierrots.
Western consumers live like latter-day royalty: British consumers eat as if there are nearly three planets; Americans as if there are five.
(Fast-forward to the two-minute mark of "Don't Turn the Light On, Leave Me Alone" to hear a jam that sounds remarkably like latter-day Radiohead).
When a baby gorilla is born in the Virunga reserve in East Africa, researchers sometimes have a party to name it, like latter-day Adams.
Time Warner subscribers, catching glimpses of the headlines, may have felt a little like latter-day Rip van Winkles — groggy, befuddled at all they seemed to have missed.
