Sentence examples for pretty much akin from inspiring English sources

Starting this way is pretty much akin to a bull locking itself in a china shop.

Now, I wasn't around when Christopher Columbus happened upon America but I rather fancy the reaction to that discovery was pretty much akin to the noise that greeted the unveiling of BRF.

Last night should have been a do-or-die clash, a battle for survival for little Getafe, a club playing in the first division for the first ever time, whose ground is laughably called the Coliseum (pretty much akin to calling a Vauxhall Nova 'Knightrider') and stands proudly alongside a knot of motorways on the edge of a grim Madrid satellite town, and whose fans mostly support Atlético.

Expanding is pretty much akin to starting an entirely new company.

Now it's bought $1.25 trillion in debt from government-owned mortgage issuers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which is pretty much akin to buying debt from the Treasury, and it's scooped up $300 billion in bonds from the Treasury directly.

It's pretty much akin to seeing your shadow.

Conservatives have pretty much abandoned Akin, so her comments passed by without much controversy.

What's different this time is not just that the ilk of Akin now includes pretty much every Republican holder of or aspirant to public office.

'I think they are all pretty much of a muchness.

Perhaps she did feel desperate to write this book, and perhaps it was truly akin to Ellen's decision to risk pretty much everything to live in her chosen gender.

Unlike drones they're not capable of nimble flight, of darting back and forth over a target; instead they're more akin to massive, delicate gliders, taking off from regular airfields but then pretty much left to their own devices.