Such an election would be reminiscent of Stalinist days: the government is exceedingly unpopular but the weak and fragmented opposition is hounded by the secret police.
Given how in-your-face HTC's new Sense 5 UI is (its BlinkFeed home page manages to be reminiscent of Flipboard, Blur and Windows Phone), we feel a bit silly kvetching about something as unobtrusive as carrier bloatware.
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Weakening earnings reports will be signs that QE3 was failing just as QE1 and QE2 did, but today the downside risks for investors will be an ugly reminiscent of the performance of stocks from October 2007 into March 2009.
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The Kremlin's apparent willingness brazenly now to strike at its foes wherever they may be is all too reminiscent of past, ruthless measures taken by Russian and Soviet rulers to crush internal and external dissent.
The purpose of such sanctions would be to strangle Israel slowly, in a manner reminiscent of the economic and political warfare that brought down the apartheid regime in South Africa.
His colored glass cubes demonstrate the flexibility of design today: The pieces, reminiscent of children's building blocks, can be mounted on top of each other to make shelves or placed sideways to form coffee tables.
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The combined effect of such steps will be to hollow-out the military in a manner reminiscent of the condition the armed forces were in during the presidency of Jimmy Carter.
Bove speculated that the timing of Cruz's departure suggests there might be a sizeable write-off coming for the firm, reminiscent of the scenario that played out with Warren Spector's exit from Bear Stearns (See " Bear Claws Out Co-President").
Bove speculated that the timing of Cruz's departure suggests there might be a sizeable write-off coming for the firm, reminiscent of the scenario that played out with Warren Spector's exit from Bear Stearns (nyse: BSC - news - people ) (See " Bear Claws Out Co-President").
Even the charges of sexual impropriety against him were curiously reminiscent of the Clinton scandals (though it has to be said that such behaviour is hardly the preserve of the counter-culture).
The race to be the leader in green-based chemicals is very reminiscent of the metamorphosis of the smart grid race.
If austerity is leading Europe into deep recession - some are saying it is reminiscent of the 1930s - then what is to be done?
This may be conceptually sensible, but this button has a circular arrow symbol reminiscent of the "Back" button on a Web browser.
Dr Chess speculates, for example, that bug fixes to existing programs might be delivered automatically in the future as tiny patches, in a manner reminiscent of gene therapy.
It's mildly convincing and sites are starting to pick it up -- the story goes some dude grabbed these pics from a Photoshop template his friend was working on and then posted it to Flickr, a scenario reminiscent of those iPod nano phatty shots that turned out to be real.
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The idea of rights for whales is certainly a provocative one, and is reminiscent of the Australian philosopher Peter Singer's proposal that human rights be extended to the great apes chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orang-utans.
" It's advice reminiscent of Michael Pollan's maxim, which I've found to be the simplest and most straightforward: "Eat food.
Steve Harvey can be scathing in a palms-down, slightly fey style of irritated disbelief reminiscent, in this one respect, of Jack Benny.
The Center views with alarm this Soviet behavior and urges that the Bush Administration do nothing that could be perceived as minimizing the significance of such non-compliant activities -- all-too-reminiscent as they are of Moscow's past record of contempt for its arms control obligations -- or otherwise viewed as acquiescing in these violations.
The suspicion, though, is that weapons like the Active Denial System really are reminiscent in many minds of the ray guns of science fiction, and that using them in combat would be a PR mistake.
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