Sentence examples for merely akin from inspiring English sources

Glasgow now had the lead but in the business of scaling that try-mountain it was merely akin to putting on the boots and arriving at the foot of the climb.

Mr. Akin merely took the grand plan logic a step farther, by suggesting that women play an active role in deciding whether or not to become pregnant.

"Unfortunately," he writes, "the megaphone merely makes God akin to a firefighter who commits arson just to play hero by later extinguishing the flames, or like a nurse who poisons patients to feel the joy of resuscitating them".

Some scholars believe that they are merely conceptual parts, akin to subsets of a set.

But Mr. Akin called their bluff.

Mr. Akin would merely have to file the necessary papers with the court and his name would no longer be printed on the November ballot.

But hailing it merely as such is akin to hailing "Moby-Dick" for being a book — technically correct, if painfully thickwitted.

It did: Even in the sleepy middle portion of the show, when She & Him played slower tracks and covers like "Unchained Melody," Deschanel was working it up on stage; on the higher tempo numbers (like "Never Wanted Your Love"), she was legitimately jumping around, smacking her tambourine with vigor -- no small feat on a night when merely sitting still felt akin to running a 10K.

And suggesting that these sporting events are just games is akin to suggesting that the World Trade Center towers were merely two tall buildings.

Still others, led by an instinct akin to foresight, merely lay their eggs on a leaf, so that a browsing caterpillar will eat them.

Finally, several historians, yours truly included, have described Washington's victory at Trenton as a merely symbolic or psychological triumph, akin to the Doolittle raid on Tokyo in 1942.