Its value has only to do with the shock level of its confessional message, making it akin to the rapper Eminem's lyrics, and equally ephemeral.
The route was determined by its technical feasibility, not the economy of the local area, making it akin to a randomised trial.
Presumably it will be a closed-end case that will come to a conclusion, making it akin to many cable series.
Yet the scale of the purchase makes it akin to a foreigner buying nearly all the Chinese province of Hainan Island — legally impossible, and an unimaginable scenario, analysts said.
The Stamford office holds R.B.S.'s second-largest trading center, making it akin to the London trading offices of United States banks.
The most unusual idea: adding new scenes and perhaps a new musical number to the New York "Spider-Man" every year, making it akin to a new comic book edition, and then urging the show's fans to buy tickets again.
Swiping, he says, tends to dehumanize people and gamifies online dating, making it akin to playing a slot machine where after each swipe the user expects a jackpot: a match.
Painting was publicity, he contended, which made it akin to contemporary advertising; the nineteenth-century nude with the come-hither glance wasn't so different from the twentieth-century pinup.
But again here, complainants would argue that the way Google controls Android makes it akin to a closed platform at this stage.
These echoes of Christian iconography also help to amplify the religious, apocalyptic feel of the picture, making it akin to a sacrificial alter or shrine.
