Sentence examples for matter akin from inspiring English sources

On Wednesday Mr. Romney continued to take aim at the Obama administration's handling of unfolding developments in the Mideast, accusing the administration of a "severe miscalculation" and calling its handling of the matter "akin to an apology".

JACKSONVILLE, Fla .— Mitt Romney on Wednesday took aim at the Obama administration's handling of unfolding developments in the Mideast, including the death of an American ambassador in Benghazi, Libya, accusing the administration of a "severe miscalculation" and calling its handling of the matter "akin to an apology".

We can be conscious of abstract truths or of spiritual reality directly in a matter akin to sense perception.

"Unscrambling whether it was the poor Australian batting or the woeful Delhi pitch that cost this game is a matter akin to the evolutionary batting order of chickens and eggs.

The other is to argue that the constitution of moral facts by non-moral natural facts is an a posteriori matter, akin to the relation between water and H2O, and that therefore Moore's openness only points to a conceptual gap, not a metaphysical one (Ridge 2014: Section 2).

— While I support most actions by border states to stem the flow, shooting from a helicopter, or any where else for that matter, is akin to murder.

The size of this "matter effect" (akin to the way photons of light are refracted as they pass through glass) will let physicists determine the ordering of neutrino masses and, just possibly, why there is any matter to begin with.Jan Piotrowski: online science editor, The Economist.

Mie's theory of matter is akin to the traditional geometric view of matter: matter is passive and pure extension.

Over those centuries, modern Europe and North America, the two centers of the Industrial Revolution, experienced nothing like the Thera eruption of the Minoan era -- or, for that matter, anything akin to the double whammy of the 9.0 earthquake and 50-foot-high tsunami that struck Japan on March 11th.

Mr. Wald declined an interview request to discuss what happened next, but according to a CNN staff member who insisted on anonymity to discuss internal matters, Mr. Akin came under immediate pressure from Republican campaign officials to back out of the interview booking.

In movies, the alchemical force that makes an actor a star isn't a straightforward matter of technique, akin to a musician-like virtuosity that can be achieved with study and practice.