Major economic indicators from industrial production to unemployment are so closely aligned that the two nations resemble partners in synchronized swimming.
AS it happens, each of these make-believe nations resembles an actual country, according to a study by two researchers, Olivier Blanchard and Pedro Portugal, published in the American Economic Review in March.
These reforms transformed Japan into a powerful centralized nation, resembling (on a smaller scale) T'ang China.
We are more and more becoming a class-defined nation, resembling 13th century England, where land, possessions and unchecked greed reigned and serfs worked until they dropped, with nothing to show for a life of servitude.
The election, as we were reminded, was less about issues than about personal style, and like dogs and their owners, nations often resemble their leaders.
But do the Iraqi people really want America's Western-style democracy, or like the British and French before, does the U.S. simply want to create nations that resemble itself?
If the lives of nations often resemble lives of individuals, then perhaps a valid psychological parallel can be drawn between South Africa--or Africa--or Africa--oreratherwhitheSouth Afrule-makershe cofbative processes of the terminally ill patient.
Laying out how the contemporary Executive Order on immigration from certain predominantly Muslim nations logically resembles exclusion and internment scores no points with someone who would have voted for those policies.
Every politician since Blair has seemed determined to turn this country into one giant branch of Bluewater; or a whole nation that resembles one of those French hypermarkets near Calais – somewhere you can buy anything you want as long as it's coffee or distressed jeans.
However, we hypothesize that the relatively high level of travel within the country will affect the pattern of mortality such that cities across the nation may resemble one another more closely than cities within a predefined geographic region.
Roger Moore of The Orlando Sentinel analyzed Spears to emulate "a lot of Janet Jackson's old concert act and cleaned it up for a younger audience," also noting choreography resembling "Rhythm Nation" precision".
