I always hesitate to find a modern British parallel, because you're going to insult somebody's home town if you say it resembles, say, Letchworth".
By instantly submitting a patent request, the person can secure as their own property not only the methods they have actually invented, but all possible derivatives and independent creations resembling said methods.
The i-MiEV has been around for years in Japan (the US will get it in 2011), and now a local retail chain called AEON is offering two e-bikes [JP, PDF] whose design is supposed to resemble said car.
Socrates thus resembled, say, the wiser-than-thou and often manipulative comedian-commentators Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert in today's America.
None of Mr. Kahn's creations resemble, say, a tidy layered cake or a round little tart.
In that respect, it does not resemble, say, 1932, when distress was general, or even 1968, a period of great prosperity.
His idea to twist the column's groove pattern transformed his prints into something organic, resembling, say, the petal of an orchid or the inside of a seashell.
The technology in question, called holographic video conferencing, would resemble, says Benton, "HDTV plus depth" and allow for "the communication of presence".
You may not appreciate the handiwork of Celia Giménez, the 80-year-old woman whose unauthorized restoration of a religious fresco turned the face of Jesus into something resembling, say, a monkey in a shearling coat.
This may come as a surprise to those who expected the television of the future to resemble, say, a smartphone screen, where every channel would be roughly like an app that you subscribe to à la carte.
