This cronyism and profligacy leads critics to liken China to other fast-growing economies that subsequently suffered a spectacular downfall.
It was not politic of him to liken Peter Mandelson, the prime minister's upwardly mobile courtier, to a crab.
And as Judge Higginbotham said, it has been too willing to liken impeachment of a president to the perjury conviction by a basketball coach.
BoA and others have tried to liken insurers to sophisticated investors with a duty to perform their own due diligence on the securities they guaranteed.
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Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon showed Arafat that Hizbullah commander Hassan Nasrallah was right to liken Israel to a spider web that would collapse at the slightest provocation.
As she did then, executive producer Darlene Hunt continues to liken their attempt to lighten an otherwise dark topic to MASH, which was at its core a comedy about war.
Anyone remember any calls for civility when former Democratic Congressman Martin Frost took to Politico to liken the tea partiers in Congress to the Taliban who blew up two ancient Buddha carvings on an Afghanistan hillside?
To simply liken divorce to an illness, only serves to deflect attention from the real reasons why more marriages end prematurely these days than they used to.
Many have spent millions of dollars on hiring digital ad firms and creating content for their Facebook pages in order to stimulate buzz, which advertisers liken to word-of-mouth marketing campaigns.
Elvis' contractual obligation to Colonel Tom Parker, who many liken to the selling of his soul.
Already hopped up on Red Bull, tempered by a liter of coconut water, Woodman darts about the cabin, occasionally breaking conversation to unleash his trademark excited wail that friends liken to a foghorn.
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Liken it to the difference between a no-load index fund and an index ETF.
Surgeons liken it to putting a tractor-trailer into reverse gear and swerving flawlessly through a wicked S-curve.
"I liken it to somebody going in and defacing a wall with a can of spray paint, " he said.
Mr. FIELDS: Well, you know, in any company, in any 100-year-old company, I kind of liken it to a person.
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"If you liken it to a household account, that's not a bad mortgage to house value ratio, " Mr Kershaw added.
Liken it to a car speeding down a highway at 90 miles per hour only to suddenly slow to 30 miles per hour.
The Sun says voters liken him to a snake, although Downing Street aides point out the other options in the survey included a poodle and a lizard.
And it basically talks about their - I liken it to the childhood game Hide and Seek, where, you know, you're counting and it's this after you're counting, you're able to say ready or not, here I come.
Its leaders liken Gaza to a ribat, a warrior monastery, and its inmates to murabitoun, or militant monks, recalling the 11th-century revivalist movement which withdrew to the Moroccan highlands before sweeping onto the Moroccan plains and Andalusia.
Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson is running ads that liken his opponent to a member of the Taliban.
Some liken the situation to the early 1980s, a tumultuous period of bombs and assassinations that Mr Assad's father, Hafez, outlived through ruthlessness.
But shadow home secretary Chris Grayling liken the bill to a "doggie bag" containing the government's leftovers at the end of a Parliament.
Some in Silicon Valley now liken the climate to that of the late 1970s, when government and military contractors employed more than 20% of the region's workforce.
In a future artistic interpretation of this project, I imagine Puxian will liken the Protector to the American border, and our desire to shut out Mexico when swine flu broke out there.
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When people liken the tech world to a high school in which the geeks have won, this is what they mean.
But many in Pakistan liken his sudden return to the country as a drone that is out to upset the country's nascent democracy.
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