While they were akin to light laser points, they were huge and moved erratically.
Across the country, mixed martial arts matches do not represent something out of "Fight Club"; rather, they are akin to boxing in how closely they are watched by highly trained medical staff and referees.
"They're akin to a refugee population, except they were born in the U.S.," said Shannon Price, director of the Diversity Foundation, a nonprofit that specializes in offering financial aid and scholarships to 400 polygamist children.
The hydrodynamic phenomena experienced by beating flagella inside water are rather different to those experienced by a human swimming through water: indeed, they are akin to what a human would experience if they tried to swim through honey (Purcell, 1977).
They are akin to NASA astronauts or the pioneers of Silicon Valley — except they lived 1,300 years ago, and it was the high seas that demanded navigation, not outer space or the Internet.
They play essential roles in body patterning and spatial identity, hence they are akin to a form of cellular global positioning system [ 24].
"They are akin to a political appendix.
They're akin to holy texts.
Ultimately the viewer accepts that they are akin to Surrealism.
"But people thought they were akin to eating raw oysters.
