Sentence examples for terms akin to from inspiring English sources
The best form of government, a polity, was, in contemporary terms, akin to an efficient, stable democracy.
According to network theorists - those who believe that society can be analysed in terms akin to a computer network - all this should be to the good.
A nation that knew next to nothing about Chechens last week might now view them in terms akin to those of a man who prosecuted two brutal wars against them.
When Timothy Geithner said yesterday morning that "the eyes of the world are on us," it was, in Treasury Secretary terms, akin to pleading with lawmakers not to embarrass us any further in front of the neighbors.
He had come to see his role in both small and sublime terms — akin to a stonemason toiling for years on the York Minster cathedral (begun 1220, finished 1472) without witnessing the work being completed.
Whatever this move represents, it has nothing to do with capitalism: it's all about trading years-long monopoly contracts for a short-term fillip to the Treasury, with the hope that while extracting a profit, our roads' new owners will somehow improve and expand them (they might, but surely on terms akin to the eyewatering arrangements of PFI deals).
Pan-seared snapper was called "cochino" -- here a jokey term akin to "Pigpen," as in the "Peanuts" character.
Borrowed later as a marketing term akin to soccer mom to mean a middle-class suburban mother from states where hockey is a common pastime.
Each metropolitan area, the researchers say, should obtain most of its nutrition from its own "foodshed," a term akin to "watershed" meaning the area that naturally supplies its kitchens.
The other body of work uses the word as a purely descriptive psychological term, akin to 'depression' or 'tranquility'tranquility
An interesting example of these types of models was developed to analyze experiments of SIV in macaques where early drug treatment led to control of the virus in the long term (akin to 'elite controllers') [ 87, 88].
