Sentence examples for was not akin from inspiring English sources

Then Obama insisted that what Snowden did was "not akin to Watergate or some scandal in which there were coverups involved".

"Senator Reid did work a lot," Mr. Summers said, adding that the absence of a quorum was not akin to the absence of accomplishment.

Mr. Obama pushed back swiftly and with humor, minimizing Mrs. Clinton's experience level by pointing out that being first lady was not akin to being Treasury secretary.

Hawkins said last week the choir's tradition of presidential performances was not akin to "implied support of party affiliations or politics".

The medical workers have said they treated anyone who arrived at the hospital during the height of the uprising in March, mostly wounded protesters, and that their work was not akin to supporting the protesters' cause.

The fact that this force was temporary rather than permanent meant that it was not akin to the inertia theory of classical mechanics, but, as Marchia stated explicitly, it was a simple theory and did explain the phenomena in temporary projectile motion.

(At oral arguments on April 29th, Justice Sonia Sotomayor questioned whether the protocol wasn't akin to "burning a person alive who's paralyzed").

"With more than 80,000 jobs already delivered this season in less than two months, there is no way that a system that wasn't akin to cloud computing would be able to cope," says Mr Kight.

This is not akin to leafleting at a political opponent's rally.

This is not akin to giving each team a soft penalty to even the score.

But in the current circumstances, leaving the euro is not akin to abandoning the standard as Britain did in 1931.