It's intended to be akin to a visit to the altar, or the celestial end point of a pilgrimage.
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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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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The shift in currency rates, according to Dalio, will be akin to the Bretton Woods break-up in 1971.
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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.
For a Dutchman to say he was bored with beer would be akin to knocking Rembrandt.
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.
One way to accelerate this would be to create an export financing arm for technology products akin to what the U.S. now has for commodities.
He called for universal child surveillance systems to be introduced in Scotland, akin to what is already available in many other parts of the world.
It is striking that this generally poor country seems, in some areas of life, to be following a path more akin to Western countries than its neighbours.
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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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.
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.
He says OnLive will also be able to support interactivity and extra features akin to those found in a Blu-ray player.
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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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It would be akin to the problem with High Frequency Trading.
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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.
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.
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.
In some ways, Soros went on to tell Bloomberg TV, even avoiding a blowup akin to the Lehman Brothers collapse in 2008 may not be enough to save the 17-nation currency with all its current members.
Rather, managers hired women because they expected programming to be a low-skill clerical function, akin to filing, typing, or telephone switching.
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.
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