In staying with the analogy of fortune, for New Labour, their total years in power, 13, proved to be unlucky.
To appreciate the character of the future we are entering, permit an analogy with the automobile, acknowledging the inherent imprecision in any analogy.
The closest analogy in recent history may be with the death of Princess Diana.
We use the word virus deliberately to make the analogy with disease bearing vectors and in the absence of a sufficiently large number of hosts epidemics and pandemics simply die out.
But is it the kind of punch - in using the analogy we've been stake-sticking with this morning, Renee - that you think is going to raise significant questions in the minds of Democratic voters.
"Throughout this trial we have moved forward in the water like a shark...bad analogy...shark is probably not a good analogy, " said Cochran dealing with laughter in the courtroom.
In the case of Dr Forrest's Artificial Immune System, however, the analogy with biology is far stronger.
The problem with that analogy is that Apple decided to develop their retail skills in a home-grown fashion through slow hiring and investment.
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Wendell Weeks, Corning's energetic and animated chief executive, has a favorite analogy: "We're like the girl in the nursery rhyme, with the curl, " he says with a huge grin.
In this analogy, beginning to exercise is equivalent to building internal resilience to be able to cope with the problems as they are.
To use an apt football analogy, just a month ago George Allen was in the open field gliding towards the end zone with the ball under his arm and a smile on his face.
With last weekend's Kentucky Derby in mind, let's consider a horse-racing analogy.
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Drawing an analogy with the originality of Steve Jobs, Xu tells how he and his co-founders huddled in a meeting room of the loft for two months, thinking up new mobile apps that would be easy to use and win over lots of users.
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Let's understand for a second that -- I don't know what Senator Graham or Senator Bond said in 2005 when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an analogy that if you compared the recidivism rate of detainees at Guantanamo with the U.S. penal system, the detainee rate is less for -- the recidivism rate is less for Guantanamo detainees.
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