For a Dutchman to say he was bored with beer would be akin to knocking Rembrandt.
It's intended to be akin to a visit to the altar, or the celestial end point of a pilgrimage.
The shift in currency rates, according to Dalio, will be akin to the Bretton Woods break-up in 1971.
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In the now vast multimedia universe, that may be akin to sending a message via telegraph instead of e-mail.
De Castries, a fan of Greek mythology, believes a Greek exit would be akin to opening a Pandora's box.
"It would be akin to closing the barn door after the horses are out, " Obama said during his Wednesday evening news conference.
Criticizing Romney for using tax havens would be akin to attacking me for living in Virginia, which has lower taxes than Maryland.
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The leap might be akin to going from having to correct articles with Wite-Out to editing them onscreen with a word processor.
Carrying the aerospace analogy, Simmons says the investigation into this disaster will be akin to that following the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger.
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This would be akin to someone who makes racial equality their sole cause in life, donating their book to the KKK to recruit members.
It would be akin to the problem with High Frequency Trading.
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Trying to trim it to the size of a banner or a signup ad will be akin to trying to convert a lion into a vegetarian.
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It would be akin to spending billions to research and build a new fighter jet and then realizing that we have no fuel to fly it.
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If blockbusters become rarer than they already are, chasing solely after them could be akin to hunting unicorns when there are plenty of deer to shoot.
At this point, expecting Amazon to actually divulge genuine numbers surrounding its Kindle business would be akin to expecting that so-called "fiscal cliff" to just vanish overnight.
Some Chinese patients awaiting transplants say abolishing inmate donations will be akin to a death sentence for them, according to a report published in the medical journal Lancet in 2011.
This global tax cartel will be akin to an OPEC for politicians, and the impact on taxpayers will be quite similar to the impact of the real OPEC on motorists.
That type of ruling would be akin to Roe.
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Obituaries focused on Kirkland's turbulent 16-year presidency of the AFL-CIO, but to say that he was only a labor leader would be akin to saying that Winston Churchill was merely a former British prime minister.
In terms of architecture and scale, arguably such a transition will be akin to the difference between setting up an isolated high desert mobile home park and building a space city with the dynamism of the Las Vegas strip.
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If Mr Bush wins, his position will be akin to that of many a struggling chairman who has just survived a takeover bid: once the battle is over, he will have to start doing all the things he denounced during the bid.
That would be akin to me arguing, after the tragic Minnesota bridge collapse in 2007 killing more than 100 people, that free democracy was the direct cause of massive decaying infrastructure across our country that was killing dozens of people on a regular basis.
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For a key subset of those people, that will set up an emotional imbalance which might be akin to the feeling of guilt with the book, and maybe the author, which will encourage them to buy the book, or another from the same author, later down the line.
The ornate snowflake decoration on top turned out to be more akin to marzipan than to conventional icing.
Loomis Sayles portfolio manager David Rolley expects the ultimate outcome to be something akin to a bungee jump.
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Thus the upper house, be it akin to the Lords, Senate or Bundesrat, would not be able to challenge the Commons as to supremacy but it would still be a democratically elected chamber.
This change should make our valuation, forecast, and ratings services more useful as the sector and industry groupings will be more akin to similar designations found on Bloomberg and other financial data service providers.
One iPhone is rumored to be an iPhone 5S, with upgrades akin to the upgrade from 4 to 4S, and another iPhone is rumored to be a slimmed down, less-expensive iPhone with a different type of casing, most likely in color.
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