Sentence examples for mistake akin from inspiring English sources

Mr Obama could certainly tone down the triumphalism: opting to make his acceptance speech not in the convention hall but in a 75,000-seater sports stadium seems like another mistake, akin to his hubristic rock-star's tour of Europe.

At 5 46 a.m., Taylor McFadden, a 26-year-old woman on her way to meet a friend at the airport, wondered if spending the hour unconscious was a mistake, akin to plugging your ears at the symphony.

Recently on the Guardian website John Sutherland was discussing the morality of rap music (surely a category mistake, akin to debating the efficiency of bananas, but that's another matter).

His mistake, Mr. Akin says in the ad, was in his word choice, "not in the heart I hold".

Passing this bill would be a major public policy mistake -- akin to the disastrous (and bipartisan) deregulation of the financial sector in the 1990s.

It includes what the NEA calls "an artist resource program offering cross-navigational assistance," which, if Culture Monster's interpretation of government jargon is not mistaken, means something akin to establishing a dating service where artists and techies can meet, in hopes they'll click as couples and have beautiful brainchildren together.

Akin's mistake was that opening his mouth with crazy talk -- as my nine-year-old daughter says -- made it much harder for Republicans to win a sure Senate seat pickup with him on the ballot.

Make no mistake, the calls for Akin's resignation likely had nothing to do with the substance of his remarks -- keep in mind, the Republican platform has a call for a ban on abortion even in cases of rape.

But it is wrong to assume that it is the cause of human nature, rather than a consequence; that is akin to mistaking the decorative finishes of a building for the underlying civil engineering.

Akin made a mistake and said something stupid, Gingrich said, but he had a long record in the conservative movement, and he didn't deserve the avalanche of criticism he had received from establishment Republicans.

Obama seems to operate under the mistaken impression that leadership is akin to facilitating a corporate retreat.