Sentence examples for rather akin from inspiring English sources

But these complaints seem rather akin to quibbling about room service while the ship is going down.

The result, he thinks, is populist anger rather akin to that now fuelling the tea-party movement, which draws much of its support from white male baby-boomers.

My assignment was to search for a securities analyst beholden to no one, with no secret agenda -- a task rather akin to being a 21st-century Diogenes.

It is rather akin to the old computer-punched cards and when fed into the hole in the wall dispensed the princely sum of £10 after I had entered my 10-digit pin.

Rather, akin to Churchill in 1941: "If Hitler invaded hell," he told his private secretary as Germany readied to invade Stalin's Russia, "I would at least make a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons".

Despite its varying states of existence, MUON's music is rather akin to its sub-atomic namesake with its deconstruction of pedantic structures, but also as intelligent, intense and cryptic aural and visual forms.

So next time you see a traditional cider at a hefty 7% ABV, don't think of it as super-strength beer, but rather more akin to a low strength wine.

They even argue — and this is sure to generate controversy — that the obsessive drive to create "nut free" environments is not the result of any real increase in children's allergies but rather something akin to an epidemic of adult hysteria, spread via network transmission.

A spokeswoman told us it will not be verifying political advertisers' identities in these two markets, saying the system will rather be akin to a temporary ban on foreign-funded ads imposed during Ireland's recent abortion referendum.

It posed questions to the Naval War College, asking for their opinion as to whether the new class should be a "conventional" 23 kn ship with an eight-nine, 16-inch main battery, or rather one akin to "A", "B" or "C".

Informal regulatory norms are not simply firms' behavioural regularities - though these constitute evidence for such norms - but rather something akin to a 'script' rooted in past experience of expectations fulfilled and in a shared discourse concerning market behaviour [ 23, 26- 28].