Sentence examples for position akin to from inspiring English sources
Nationalists also serve as the magistrates, a position akin to mayor, in 15 of Taiwan's 25 largest cities.
DANNY ALEXANDER, Britain's chief secretary to the Treasury (a position akin to a deputy finance minister), has a tricky job close to an election.
Modernists like Picasso, Hannah Höch and Kurt Schwitters elevated it to a new position, akin to painting, often with political implications.
Now he is in a position akin to the granny disposed of by the wolf, his principled stand swallowed in the Con-Lib coalition.
But even her allies are beginning to wonder whether her volcanic temper, off-the-wall statements and increasingly nasty battle with the news media will be her undoing as chief minister, a position akin to that of a governor.
For anyone familiar with the protracted way most plays are developed today, that is a jarring position, akin to a Nascar driver who loves pit stops or a corpse who loves purgatory.
In extant collagens which are generally much larger, hydrophobicity is tightly constrained, with only two triplets in type I collagen out of 300 having a tandem pair of hydrophobic amino acids at X and Y positions akin to the H2 peptide.
Annah Pickering from the New Zealand Prostitutes Collective (NZPC) told VICE the legislation as it stands puts migrant sex workers in Aotearoa in a precarious position, something akin to the position of all New Zealand sex workers before the Prostitution Reform Act was passed into law.
Leuzzi, who is 36 years old, obtained a 5-year position there (akin to a tenure-track position elsewhere) in January 2005.
Moynihan's position is akin to a local authority director of education and so as far as we are aware his salary in that position is unmatched in the UK.
Scalia later defended his position before a Senate subcommittee, invoking an analogy both homely and extreme: "Anyone saying a few kind words about executive privilege after the events of the last few years is in a position somewhat akin to the man preaching the virtues of water after the Johnstown flood, or the utility of fire after the burning of Chicago.
