Mr. Kubovy agreed that the situation bears an eerie likeness to John Guare's "Lydie Breeze" plays, which he directed four summers ago at the New York Theater Workshop.
When government regulators answer to those they are tasked to oversee and those in control are of foreign agency, the situation bears more than a passing resemblance to a banana republic.
This dire situation bears little resemblance to the global-warming picture, currently in vogue among policy makers, of a slow, steady warming that creeps along imperceptibly year by year.
Arians will continue to call the plays, a football aspect of this situation that bears watching, particularly because Luck's development is critical for a young team in the middle of a massive rebuilding.
While Florette speculates, dozes, and dreamily entertains memories, the reality of her worsening situation bears down upon the reader.
Mr. Obama's situation bears some resemblance to that of Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose New Deal sought to end the Great Depression.
The situation bears some similarities to John Edwards's presidential bid during the last election cycle, when his wife, Elizabeth, had a recurrence of cancer that had been in remission for years.
Still, even though we're told that "Earth was colonized by the Zycronites," and even though Iris's situation bears an indisputable resemblance to that of Zycron's sacrificial maidens, the two parts of Atwood's big new book feel like separate projects that have been soldered together rather than thematically connected.
The general situation bears strong similarity to the case of metric spaces.
The situation bears resemblance to abnormal grain growth in Fe 3 wt% Si alloys, where special properties are attributed to Σ9 boundaries.
