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"liken" Definitions
  1. to represent as similar or like; compare: to liken someone to a weasel.

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On the other, Democrats liken the Republican candidate to Caligula.
His supporters liken the dehorning to castrating cats or dogs.
"I'd liken it to being on a rollercoaster," Hanke says.
"I liken it to email spam," McEachern told CNN Business.
Just do not liken it to Russian propaganda, the Americans say.
LG: I like how you liken Pokémon to a gym class.
I liken it to experiencing a continual slap in the face.
The fruit eaters liken the diet's effects to a spiritual experience.
"I liken it to a carpenter working with wood," he says.
I liken it to having built a house without any foundation.
"You get hair that I liken to overcooked spaghetti," says Gordon.
Physicists liken swapping two anyons to braiding two strands of hair.
"I liken spreadsheets to a computer game for executives," he said.
"I liken it to throwing money at a problem," she tells me.
Some analysts liken THAAD to shooting down a bullet with another bullet.
Some analysts liken it to shooting down a bullet with another bullet.
"I liken it to a murder-suicide," Wisenberg told CNN's Dana Bash.
You could liken the rolls to waves and tides of the sea.
The researchers liken the treatment to a "cancer antibiotic" (The Jerusalem Post).
"Some people liken it to a fourth branch of government," Taylor explains.
Many experts liken the process to waves lapping on a sandy beach.
I liken the elimination of this whole way of life to a breakup.
I liken companies in this category to companies such as Docusign or Salesforce.
They liken it to America's Jim Crow laws that once enforced racial segregation.
Many people I talk to about this experiment liken it to digital veganism.
DW: I liken it to trying to remember a film you've never seen.
One of which is this video, which they liken to a social experiment.
As a means of deep relaxation, I'd liken birding to yoga or meditation.
Opportunity arrives before evidence"I liken it to lightning and thunder," he said.
The best way to describe this feeling is to liken it to friendship.
Weighted blankets are nice to have—we liken them to a warm hug.
"I liken it to the CEO of a large medical center," he continued.
Why do they liken some people's interest in the investigation to an obsession?
That has led critics to liken the boxes to a form of gambling.
Some experts liken willpower to a muscle, which when used repeatedly gets fatigued.
"We liken them to the protein bars of the ancient world," Dr. Miller said.
To liken them to the alt-right diminishes their work, and hurts the resistance.
Democratic strategists liken this to the Tea Party takeover of the GOP in 2010.
A pair of pimps liken Richard Nixon's Vietnam brinkmanship to their own management style.
Some who've drunk it liken the taste to whiskey, others to salt and ash.
"I liken it to a computer that has gone into 'sleep mode,'" he said.
" He added: "I liken it to fans of a rock band, like Arcade Fire.
Admirers often liken Mr. Snowden and the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, to Mr. Ellsberg.
I liken it to those iconic paintings that go to a museum restoration shop.
Did the owners liken the boy wizard's name to their restaurant simply to get publicity?
" Regarding the show as a whole, he added, "I liken it to Full House 2.0.
"I liken it to a daisy chain, long and very fragile daisy chain," Collins said.
I can only liken the whole thing to post-traumatic stress of a wartime era.
His critics liken him to Hugo Chávez, whose "Bolivarian revolution" has brought ruin to Venezuela.
You&aposve got a much stronger leader and I liken that on to Ronald Reagan.
Diplomats liken Yemen to Somalia: no longer a coherent state but a collection of fiefs.
They liken the relationship between the UK public and DeepMind to a one-way mirror.
The only stipulation is that they cannot in any way liken themselves to Boise State.
" The same day, King also made a comment that seemed to liken Mexicans to "dirt.
Valeant has drawn scorn for its drug pricing strategy, which critics liken to price-gouging.
Some scholars went so far as to liken the timeline to a work of propaganda.
Hannity also attempted to liken H13N1 to coronavirus: But comparing coronavirus to H1N1 is misleading.
In government documents, local officials sometimes liken inmates to patients requiring isolation and emergency intervention.
Opposition legislators and the legislature's staff liken the two-year ordeal to a prolonged strangulation.
I'd liken it to stepping on a fresh, bendy branch versus a dry, brittle one.
Advocates liken it to pregnancy: requiring medical care, but not a disease or a disorder.
That both performances should stand alone, and that somehow it's anti-feminist to liken the two.
I took a dive into what I would now liken to slowly drowning without realizing it.
I liken it to cruise control right now, where you always still have to pay attention.
It turns out if you liken Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Kim Jong Un, there are consequences.
"I once heard someone liken it to the feeling of pooping," another guy, Sean*, told me.
I liken it to finding that a swarm of bees has settled in your back yard.
As Eater points out, you could certainly liken this ceremonious list to an Oscars for food.
More surgeons than mechanics, the technicians liken themselves to a pit crew at an auto race.
Many liken it to the American hamburger, but the hot dog is probably a better comparison.
If you could liken the music you make to an emotion, what emotion would that be?
Would he liken himself to those who laboured at Stonehenge, the pyramids or China's Great Wall?
I often liken entrepreneurship to an incurable disease, or it's an affliction that certain people have.
Some marine scientists liken this to the impact of a prolonged heatwave or drought on a forest.
TasteAnd surprisingly, the blandest tasting of all — I'd liken it almonds that were roasted and never salted.
I'd liken it to eating tiny little fudge crunchies with just a hint of fresh coconut flavor.
To liken them to their riot grrrl predecessors is an easy comparison, but also a bit simplistic.
Philosophers of the Ivy League Look liken particularly dramatic collar rolls to the silhouettes of angels' wings.
Location scouts liken landing a job for your house to winning the lottery, as competition is fierce.
SSE50, another gauge that some liken to China's "Nifty 50", trades at price/earnings ratio under 10.
"I would liken him to a chess player: very analytical and a numbers guy," Mr. Weinreich said.
Zoomed-in photographs of Ms. Maiolino's face liken the topography of skin to that of a landscape.
Earlier you said you liken your father to Mufasa, but which character do you most identify with?
"As I liken the Michigan State game to a state championship, this is even bigger," Harbaugh said.
I liken it to if we were to lose paintings by Picasso, Monet, Rembrandt or a Homer….
I sometimes liken it, Kara, to — we have thousands of nuclear weapons custodians in the United States.
Researchers liken the vanishing remains to books containing priceless knowledge about past cultures, past ecosystems, and past climates.
I'd liken it to a homestyle mac and cheese consistency that you might get as a BBQ side.
Yet for some reason, Alan in the show and Adora in the book both liken Camille to Joya.
Some observers liken the neglected districts in the South and West Sides of the city to war zones.
Indeed, when people liken Boris Johnson to Trump, the comparisons are often either overblown or superficial (the hair).
They liken it to machine learning, though it's not clear that the drone gets any smarter over time.
I liken Spyro now to a great family film, which neither ruffles nor condescends its variously-aged audience.
This week, Johnson wrote a newspaper column to liken Muslim women wearing veils to postboxes and bank robbers.
There are Iraqi Shiite militiamen cheering for clerics who liken the enemy to foes from seventh-century battles.
All this is just a funny pun to liken the sun to apricots, a star with a fruit.
"I liken it to the burning down of a candle," Mr. O'Brien said at a news conference Wednesday.
"I liken it to being the cleanup crew at an 88-car pileup on the highway," said Rep.
"I liken this to the lawn sign from a security system," Elie Seidman, Tinder's CEO, told the Journal.
I liken it to using a controller with rumble and then just hating your non-rumble controller afterwards.
In his article, Barr complained that journalists had made "subtle efforts" to liken the cult to the Church.
"I liken it to the CEO of a large medical center," he said at an event last October.
Advocates liken the effort to having the lifesaving allergy drug EpiPen or portable defibrillators used for cardiac arrest.
Australian law enforcement caught 30 Americans in a child pornography investigation using controversial techniques some liken to hacking.
Protesters liken themselves to brothers and sisters in arms, fighting for freedom together despite not knowing one another.
That's why some arguments that liken delivery apps' tipping policies to the restaurant industry's practices aren't an equal comparison.
This hampered diagnoses and created a supply shortage, prompting patients to liken getting a kit to winning the lottery.
When Trump used it in 0003, he obviously meant to liken himself to black victims of white supremacist violence.
These are also called the "plugholes" by locals, who liken them to what you might find in a bathtubs.
The beard does liken him to Luke Skywalker circa The Force Awakens, but the goblet of wine does not.
I liken it to a giant "fuck you" to the quiet, subservient female and the historic subjugation of women.
There are tracks where Gucci is so sensual and charming that I'd liken it to an Isley Brothers record.
Why melting glaciers and warming oceans weaken ocean currentsScientists liken the AMOC to a kind of water conveyor belt.
I guess you could liken that to Hitchcock's use of the term MacGuffin for the same type of thing.
Researchers liken it to an entrance to a secret lair: The steps descend to a dark and dusty underworld.
Pizza obsessives may liken it to a soufflé for its dough, which traps air to form an elevated structure.
PLA strategists liken them to a "metal chain" blocking passage from the South China Sea into the Indian Ocean.
Soothsayers liken the poet-prince's quest to his desire to build his kingdom into a paragon of diversity and peace.
In a tweet, China Central Television adapted Martin Niemöller's language to liken the protesters to Nazis ("First they hurled bricks . . .").
Countries around the world are taking aggressive stances against loot box systems, which critics liken to peddling gambling to children.
They liken it to a slice of tangerine or call it wedge shaped or say she has bee-stung lips.
With cameras in our pockets and Instagrammable moments at every turn, it's easy to liken ourselves to bona fide photographers.
It's best to liken its capabilities to the 13-inch MacBook Pro, which is obviously what Huawei is gunning for.
Do you liken yourself a psychic like Bran and carry around a deck of Tarot cards in your back pocket?
Readers of a certain generation might liken this feature to an updated take on MTV's Unplugged or VH1's Storytellers.
People at the large makeshift camp that now surrounds the caves liken the mood to that of a hostage situation.
You could liken Smith Haut Lafitte and Montrose to premier cru Burgundies or vintage Champagnes, or even Manhattan real estate.
In the postgame commotion, someone swiped Brady's jersey (a heist Kraft would liken to "taking a great Chagall or Picasso").
Many veterans, using a Chinese saying, liken themselves to donkeys slaughtered after they are too old to work a grindstone.
To do this in my own work with adolescents, I liken the demands of school to a strength-training program.
The cleat will also soon come with a machine-learning algorithm which the founders liken to a built-in coach.
"China's navy is receiving warships so quickly that Chinese sources liken this to dumping dumplings into soup broth," Erickson said.
He has employed an aggressive proselytizing program that has unnerved mainstream Christian denominations who liken the church to a cult.
They liken the Active Foot Frame to the bucket seat in a race car — dropped down and cradling the foot.
This cycle, Mr. Scarborough has used his show to liken Mr. Rubio to a "student government president" with a scant record.
So proof of stake — I liken it to the Scottish landowners, where people with a lot of power have more say.
Fearful that another resettlement programme looms, Sinjar's Yazidi leaders liken a programme of "Kurdification" to Saddam Hussein's Arabisation in the 1970s.
Critics liken them to pharmaceutical industry tactics that led to laws and policies requiring financial disclosure, though on a smaller scale.
Tucker has tools that perfectly align with the modern game and a style of play one might liken with persistent grime.
Of course they liken themselves to the Minutemen of the American Revolution, and they see themselves as the modern-day Minutemen.
It's a subversion of video game rules and expectations that one may (perhaps clumsily) liken to the shower scene in Psycho.
Alexander Burns: Mr. Buttigieg's fans often liken him to Barack Obama, because of his youth and persona as a cerebral outsider.
To liken it to riding a bicycle: If you get your route right, you can be going downhill all the way.
Among other things, he joked about protesters wearing masks that liken President Xi to Winnie the Pooh — a forbidden comparison in China.
There is something here I might liken to satire, perhaps, in which the subject matter is being commented upon through its inclusion.
Officials liken it to being a 'landlord' but not responsible for the management of the housing, security, food services or other activities.
I liken it to soft-immersion language classes; let the repetition wash over you a few times, and eventually, you'll get it.
TeamLab themselves liken it to a pointillist painting where an innumerable amount of individual dots are organized to create a whole composition.
While unsurprising for a former regulated monopoly which many still liken to the federal government, AT&T suffers from a bureaucratic organization.
As for Finkielkraut, Sand's effort to liken him to the racists and anti-Dreyfus zealots of circa 1900 seems to me grotesque.
I would liken it to a visual novel, because while playing this game I primarily felt like I was reading a book.
The pie of the restaurant's name refers to both Egyptian feteer, which Westerners often liken to pizza, and actual Italian-American pizza.
Mr. Schiff used it to liken Mr. Trump to a monarch, but the implication was that Republicans were terrified of crossing him.
Now, the pair hope to be known for their bet on cryptocurrency, which they liken to a different kind of social network.
Defenders liken the loot box to buying a pack of baseball cards and being disappointed that you didn't net a '52 Mantle.
They liken it to the many well-publicized horrors inflicted on women here, intended to dehumanize and put people in their place.
"I liken him to Calvin Coolidge, a pro-business president who kept constantly trying to boost the stock market," Mr. Shiller said.
I sometimes liken it to some punk kid walking on to a film set with a paintball gun and just lighting everything up.
Critics say it is painful and unnatural but supporters liken it to castrating cats or dogs and argue it is a safety issue.
They liken it to the early days of Linux when different distros battled it out (and really continue to do to this day).
Glaciologists often liken ice shelves to corks in a champagne bottle: remove them, and all the stuff they've bottled up starts to escape.
Speaking of which, if she'd have to liken the notes, which include cardamom and raspberry, to anything, it'd be her own musical personality.
Researchers at the Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group UsAgainstAlzheimer's liken this prevention-centric approach to the treatment of patients that are HIV positive.
The second group, which includes some American congressmen and chattering classes, liken Aramco's accomplishments to sticking a straw in the ground and sucking.
Tolkien aficionados liken Wistman's Wood to Fangorn Forest in The Lord of the Rings, while Star Wars fans echo Burnell's comparison to Dagobah.
" And yet Knausgaard can plausibly liken himself to a character from the fevered writings of Dostoevsky, "the impoverished young student in the metropolis.
In the case of taxes, he suggests politicians liken America to a clubhouse, and taxes to how one pays his or her dues.
Some liken Homeland Security to the first on the scene, "firefighters' so to speak, while the FBI are more akin to "arson investigators.
Saldana, who is of Dominican and Puerto Rican descent, darkened her skin to play the role, a move some critics liken to blackface.
They may have scored regal roles, but Olivia Colman and Helena Bonham Carter liken the royal family's famous wave to a household chore.
But that unpredictability is itself predictable, so when we liken Whac-A-Mole to our own lives, we ought to embrace that uncertainty.
And the antidepressant Effexor is notorious for its awful sudden-discontinuation process, to the point that some people liken it to heroin withdrawal.
It's not a virus that these three characters are passing around on the USA series "The Sinner," although they liken it to one.
Well, the best way I can liken the two is the Republican debates, which are the single greatest reality program on television today.
"The only way men can process that a woman is in power is apparently to liken her to their mother," Ms. Roll said.
Located in the hills of the Chianti wine region, the property elicits reviews that liken a stay here to "living in a painting."
Researchers liken it to the size of a Cessna airplane, according to a release by the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Canada.
Zinke went on to liken the questions on his plane use to "attacks" on his office but said he was used to them.
"Sometimes, I liken it to climate change," said Greg Summers, the provost, who helped come up with the plan to remake Stevens Point.
I liken them to a bunch of semis running down the highway with nobody able to get around them, in a lot of ways.
Early reviews liken it to Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine: Both rotate, chapter by chapter, through a cast of characters, tethered by identity, place, proximity.
Some Conservative Brexiteers, such as Daniel Hannan, are radical Whig free-traders who liken the EU to the protectionist Corn Laws of the 1840s.
Activists fighting family detention liken the centers to Japanese internment camps, and claim the detentions have stunted cognitive development and increased trauma among children.
"We like to liken it to a fight at a wedding," said Joe Russo, who co-directed the film with his brother Anthony Russo.
A.N.C. politicians have even taken to assassinating fellow party members to cover up corruption, leading some officials to liken the party to a Mafia.
Though it had been growing steadily, Czech's overall profile was suddenly experiencing the kind of growth that Wall Street analysts liken to hockey sticks.
Some corporate consultants liken the challenge to the one posed in recent years by activist investors, only based on a different set of priorities.
But it is wholly inapt to liken that morally repugnant order to a facially neutral policy denying certain foreign nationals the privilege of admission.
They liken Obamacare to a big fixed-price buffet, with its required preventive health benefits for every plan and tax subsidies for low-income Americans.
Alfie Evans is a 2-year-old Brit with a degenerative and terminal brain condition — medical experts liken it to dementia experienced by elderly people.
I liken it to the euphoria I experience every time I go back to my HBCU (historically black college or university) homecoming or family reunion.
The developers liken it to when Daniel Craig took over as James Bond; it's the same general setting and characters, but with a grittier tone.
I liken it to sitting outside of Giant Stadium with a microphone trying to listen to a conversation in Section 23 Row 4 seat 9.
Weisman is quick to liken it to the Game of Thrones universe, though BattleTech was never quite as morally complicated, and certainly never as violent.
" He continued, "It is wholly inapt to liken that morally repugnant order to a facially neutral policy denying certain foreign nationals the privilege of admission.
" Roberts said it was "wholly inapt to liken that morally repugnant order to a facial neutral policy denying certain foreign nationals the privilege of admission.
I really would liken that to the journey of fitness — you know, in the beginning, people who jogged around Central Park were seen as crazy.
Under the Belt and Road Initiative, it has loaned so much money to its neighbors that critics liken the debt to a form of imperialism.
"I feel like a lot of the leaders we have—you liken them to white men in society," Tshidi Madia, a black journalist, told me.
The new kicks have multiple holes of various sizes cut into the sides, which have led some people to liken the unconventional shoes to Crocs.
However, quite a few have told me that they don't see a conflict, and liken cryonics to any other life-saving technology, such as CPR.
Although the summer solstice technically happens in late June, we liken the season to a state of mind — one that begins, well, right about now.
It's no wonder that many humanities majors are using their considerable creative and rhetorical skills to liken their job searches to various post-apocalyptic imaginings.
While people in Canada will liken Macdonald's actions affecting indigenous people to George Washington's ownership of slaves, Professor Daschuk said there was a critical difference.
The school calls the gym the Lions' Den, but many visitors call it the Dungeon and liken playing there to playing hockey inside a box.
"I liken calling and directing a game to flying a plane," Galloway, whose job the Hawks fill with a multitude of staff members, told me.
In September, the justice minister of the state of North-Rhine Westphalia, Peter Biesenbach, went so far as to liken cum-ex players to mobsters.
For decades, North Korea has been accused of sending workers abroad and confiscating most of their wages, an arrangement that activists liken to slave labor.
Trenchant critics liken the result to a kind of modern day slavery — arguing that rights-denuded platform workers are part of a wider beaten down 'precariat'.
"I liken it to walking a tightrope because the recommendations are so subjective," said Amanda Hunter, research and communications director for the Barbara Lee Family Foundation.
"I would liken it to the Butterball hotline, but it's not about turkeys, it's about your racist uncle," said Cronk from her home in Washington, D.C.
The researchers liken it to the work of travelling salesperson:When you visit one city, you sometimes discover more cities you have to visit before going home.
The move has caused many to liken it to past bubbles in speculative stocks with a lot of hype, but not a lot of revenue yet.
Other officials liken the offensive to one in 23 that saw Turkey wrest from IS a 100km stretch of Syrian territory west of the Euphrates river.
His eldest son, Don Jr., has used Twitter to liken Syrian refugees to a poisoned bowl of Skittles candy, and he has posted images of Pepe.
We used to liken it to the army, where you'd been army buddies for a few years and now you weren't going to see them again.
I liken it to New England people sitting in a sports bar watching hockey; they're talking about hockey, but they're not really talking to each other.
Former Trump campaign press secretary Katrina Pierson, in a widely-shared tweet, also appeared to liken the white suffragette-themed outfits to Ku Klux Klan uniforms.
One of his favorite ways to describe the Yoga Book is to liken it to a children's book, specifically, Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat.
"Faving" your own tweets is a vile act, an event I liken to a mother rat eating her young, the unholy marriage of cannibalism and incest.
Industry officials liken Washington's potential role to the way government funding ensures the capability to launch sensitive military and intelligence satellites into space - another costly initiative.
The incoming lawmaker responded to Huckabee, who had shared a Daily Mail article noting that she appeared to liken her primary victory over heavily favored Rep.
Survivors liken recovery to crawling out of a hole, slowly emerging from shock, stress and hopelessness to re-establish a semblance of order -- a new life.
Internally, executives at American Public Media, the nonprofit that produces and distributes "A Prairie Home Companion," liken Thile's ascent to Jimmy Fallon's taking Jay Leno's seat.
Many people liken the process of open enrollment and picking a plan to the pleasures of a root canal, said Shan Fowler, an executive at Benefitfocus.
You could liken it to raising a baby on a steady diet of Fox News or CNN, with no input from its parents or social institutions.
"I don't want to liken this to a job interview or an episode of 'The Bachelorette' or something, but you really have no read," Eppler said.
How dare they liken the more than 50 women who have accused Mr. Cosby and the dozens who have accused Mr. Kelly to racist lynch mobs?
Experts frequently liken the space debris issue to pollution and climate change: A devastating series of collisions may seem far-fetched until, suddenly, it's a looming catastrophe.
People might be eager to liken this moment to the early days of weed decriminalization, but experts warned that that doesn't make for the best of comparisons.
One could liken the division to the drive by Quebec, where French-speaking separatists have so far failed to win votes there to break away from Canada.
So, here's a surefire way to offend a whole bunch of people on the internet: Take a millennia-old culinary tradition and liken it to squeezing zits.
You can see traces of visitors' interactions in the flowers, cards, stuffed animals, and even jewelry left beside the chairs — more marks that liken them to headstones.
I liken it to drinking a milkshake through a coffee stirrer: you'll get some milkshake eventually, but you'll also get frustrated and end up with a headache.
"I liken it to giving the keys to your kid to a car," said Cunningham, who has a 10-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter.
With health care so much of the focus in the Georgia special election, Democrats were ready to liken an Ossoff victory to that of former GOP Sen.
With a personality-driven following that many liken to former Chinese leader Mao Zedong, Xi does not appear to lack for self-confidence or vision, said Johnson.
Although you would liken skill set more to Gunnar Nelson's, Gallagher has the same flair for fashion and unwavering self-belief that McGregor has become notorious for.
For good reason did Andrey Krutskikh, a senior advisor to the Kremlin, liken Russia's latter-day information warfare capability to the testing of the Soviet atom bomb.
Some liken the gathering to the last of the great doctrinal councils in 787; others compare it to more recent gatherings like one in Jerusalem in 1672.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan also reportedly granted permission to protesters to fly a giant, orange inflatable baby designed to liken Trump over the capital during his visit.
However, Jonas said some fans of high-end performance cars liken driving an electric Ferrari to eating a 3-D printed soy doughnut — just not the same.
"Some people liken it to a fourth branch of government," Matthew Taylor, a professor at American University who studies corruption in Brazil, explained to me last month.
Dr. Moore and the marine biologist Julie van der Hoop liken it to a human swimming long distances in wet jeans, heavy waterlogged jackets or work boots.
Some liken the Moscow renovations to the Sochi Olympics, the most expensive Games in history, which yielded multibillion-dollar projects for businessmen with ties to Mr. Putin.
"I liken covering American whiskey to covering sports," said Fred Minnick, who writes about whiskey full time and is the author of three books on the subject.
In his paintings, Gilliam imbues the tragedy of Black death (some liken the peaks of his draperies to Klansman cloaks) and the kaleidoscopic potential of Black life.
In a speech on Monday in Phnom Penh, the capital, Mr. Hun Sen appeared to liken his views on the news media to those of Mr. Trump.
She went on to liken herself to Sanders, who frequently touts the number of small contributions from donors to his campaign and has refused super-PAC support.
And he's certainly not the first guy to liken the current wave of sexual harassment and assault allegations happening across all industries to something resembling a witch hunt.
It's easy to liken Hale to the recent spate of canceled men who popped their heads out to see if people are no longer mad about their misdeeds.
So instead he teaches me how to use a DSLR, and we have what I would liken to a Demi Moore-Patrick Dempsey Ghost moment with his camera.
Two of the portraits liken Chisholm's characteristics to those of Orishas, human embodiments of elemental spirits from the Yoruba tradition, while the third incorporates the Pan-African flag.
The rhythmic movement and color of the parasite inside the transparent creature had many liken it to a raver dancing to beats with glow sticks on their limbs.
We in the west cannot allow terrorists or those who liken themselves as martyrs in a greater struggle to dictate the course of our day-to-day life.
Outside a London mall with my brother Robin, en route to Glastonbury in a bus with an odor I will affectionately liken to a can of old farts.
Some liken his shadowy role — though not his ideas — to that of Mr. Trump's former adviser Stephen K. Bannon, or Karl Rove, who counseled President George W. Bush.
But they also liken China to such sworn enemies of America as Iran and the Soviet Union, and argue that only hard-line pressure can "crush" its expansion.
"We kind of liken it to a fire extinguisher," said Leatherback Gear co-founder Brad de Geus, who credits his brother for coming up with the product's design.
I liken my U2 fandom at this point to being a fan of a sports team: if your favorite team has a shit season, you'll still root for them.
Their story led many to liken them to the young cancer patients who fell in love in the best-selling novel and 2014 film The Fault in Our Stars.
" (The poor things have apparently never seen artworks that consist of literal middle fingers to the world.) They liken it to "a dying mantis or a poorly formed pterodactyl.
When you liken them to ISIS, it seems like perfectly appropriate because they are domestic terrorists in terms of the crime, the racketeering, the murders that they carry out.
Others less politely liken it to a maritime used-car lot, with second-hand rigs changing hands at low prices and old bangers being decommissioned or turned into scrap.
"I liken it to the Dutch reclaiming the land from the sea: We've just got to try to wrest some of the power away from our smartphones," he says.
John S. Shealy is a Louisville, Kentucky-based psychologist who has written much about meditation and mindfulness, an act he and countless others liken to taming a wild horse.
Mr. Robot fans might liken the stunt to the one pulled by the show's anti-capitalist fsociety, who symbolically removed the testicles from the iconic Wall Street bull statue.
The tumultuous week has also led the New York Post to liken Trump's White House to "Survivor" in a continually-updated cover showing the departure of senior Trump officials.
Before last season's N.B.A. championship won by the Cavaliers — which Clevelanders liken to the breaking of some mysterious evil spell — its last champions were the football Browns of 21948.
If asked why relatives have to be detained to receive their "training," officials should liken their condition to a disease or cancer that requires a quarantine, the document says.
Kremlin-watchers often liken his performance, which this year spanned almost 80 questions, to that of a tsar listening to his petitioners as he promises to fix individuals' problems.
In some cases, two or more small clusters can even merge to form a large cluster, in a process the authors liken to the fusion of two atomic nuclei.
The Assembly has passed a two-year extension of mayoral control but linked it to local property tax extenders, a maneuver that Republicans liken to holding such revenue hostage.
Analysts liken the possible reaction to be more like when President Bill Clinton was impeached and acquitted by the Senate than when President Richard Nixon was facing impeachment proceedings.
Even though a significant number of GOP members say it's a bold stroke with crucial presidential support, many Republicans liken the move to price controls that would kill innovation.
Trump aides often liken the federal bureaucracy to a "deep state" — a term once reserved for authoritarian regimes where a permanent, unelected class of officials secretly steers the government.
The uniformity could assuage those who liken hemp to its federally illicit cousin and have either steered away from working with hemp businesses or tried to ban hemp products.
Christian Pederson Behrends critiques both of those works in two linoleum, black-and-white prints that liken the inane actions portrayed in the inaccurate historical paintings to children's games.
I liken it to when you're a little kid and you want to cross the street, but the highway's too busy and so everybody holds hands and walks across together.
Washington (CNN)Ben Carson appeared to liken slaves to immigrants who choose to come to the United States while addressing employees at the Department of Housing and Urban Development Monday.
He added that "it is wholly inapt to liken that morally repugnant order to a facially neutral policy denying certain foreign nationals the privilege of admission" to the United States.
And when she left government, they say, Clinton became even more combative, going so far as to liken Putin to Hitler in 2014 for his annexation of part of Ukraine.
She has the kind of warm, relaxed presence of an old friend with a breezy attitude we can only liken to other cool girls, like Zoë Kravitz and Adwoa Aboah.
Some liken the man who died, a 22-year-old Cree named Colten Boushie, to Trayvon Martin, a black American teenager killed by a Hispanic man in Florida in 19963.
" In a release from the brand, they liken the collaboration to a meeting of minds; Minnie's imitable style meets "sophisticated and cool take juxtaposed with her fun spirit and femininity.
The lawsuits tell the stories of people jailed for driving after having had their licenses suspended for failure to pay court debt—a situation that critics liken to debtors' prison.
If you didn't watch Sorkin's short-lived disasterpiece, I'll liken this mask drop to Adam Driver's in The Force Awakens (at least we knew to expect Driver months in advance).
It's a plan to gamify healthcare or incent good behavior in a way that the company's founders liken to the "good driver discount" that conscientious drivers receive on their insurance.
Clinton went on to downplay his own conduct, identify with the #MeToo movement and liken himself to John F. Kennedy while pushing back on the notion he should have resigned.
Officials familiar with the dynamic often liken it to a power struggle, though it's Cipollone who has amassed power while several others say Mulvaney's sway on the President has diminished.
The authors liken the effects to a 30 pound weight gain over one year for an average human, which they say would be the equivalent of an extra cheeseburger every day.
Those opposed to the plan liken it to selling the family jewels and draw parallels with the past sale of highways to private enterprises, which then hit citizens with crippling tolls.
Some even liken it to the strict racial segregation in South Africa under apartheid, in which the indigenous black African population was ruled by a colonial regime based on white supremacy.
In a speech last month, Mr Duda went so far as to liken EU membership to the 1795 partition of Poland, which wiped the country off the map for 123 years.
As JAB grows, analysts increasingly liken it to 3G, a feared Brazilian investment group that snaps up makers of consumer products like Kraft Heinz before slashing costs and jacking up returns.
Some experts liken the potential upheaval from automation to the economic changes that sparked an education revolution more than a century ago, which made high school the norm for American students.
The authors liken the effects to a 303-lb weight gain over one year for an average human, which they say would be the equivalent of an extra cheeseburger every day.
Residents who gathered in Manenberg and Hanover Park to watch as soldiers assisted police on Thursday afternoon welcomed the new deployment to an area that officials liken to a war zone.
He went so far as to liken his situation to that of hard-working government employees, even though he previously made about $200,000 a year as mayor of Salt Lake County.
It is an involuntary, cathartic, out-of-body experience I would personally liken to a desperately needed rest stop on a long road trip mixed with coughing while having the hiccups.
The authors liken the effects to a 30-lb weight gain over one year for an average human, which they say would be the equivalent of an extra cheeseburger every day.
You could liken it to "The Sims," except in that long-running series, you supervise mercurial characters who will throw fits when ignored and even pee on the floor in defiance.
Public relations has long been an easy target of critics, who liken its faceless practitioners to Machiavelli's Prince or Orwell's Big Brother, manipulating public opinion to hide truths and maximize profits.
Officials familiar with the dynamic often liken it to a power struggle, though it is Cipollone who has amassed power while several others say Mulvaney's sway on the President has diminished.
But he undermined his cause by offering a dubious excuse for why he hasn't released his tax returns yet, a lack of transparency that allowed opponents to liken him to Trump.
Roberts called it "wholly inapt to liken that morally repugnant order" to Trump's travel ban, but said its reference in dissenting opinions provided the court the opportunity to clarify its illegality.
House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady used the CBO score to argue that this report made it harder to liken the GOP plan to "Obamacare Lite" as some conservatives had done.
The obvious choice for emphasizing the importance of a heat protectant would be to liken styling your hair without one to having casual sex without a condom: dangerous, and likely best avoided.
You can almost liken it to the psychological horror of Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House where family drama blurs with supernatural elements, and it's hard to tell what's real or imagined.
There are a handful of advancements that have changed the beauty industry so profoundly, we'd liken their creation to the invention of the wheel — and one of them is long-wear makeup.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte appeared to liken himself to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler on Friday and said he would "be happy" to exterminate three million drug users and peddlers in the country.
Both Lauren, 22, of Florida, and Shelby, 24, of New York separately noted that they liken Friendsgiving to another faux holiday recognized by many TV-obsessed millennials: Parks and Recreation's Galentine's Day.
Schenk isn't trying to sell an erotic fantasy: there are no pictures of beautiful porn performers on the packaging or website, no attempts to liken the product to being inside anyone's body.
Despite the artist's intentions to inspire people with his sculpture, it has also drawn the ire of astronomers who liken the project to space trash that makes it harder to do astronomy.
The compound is known familiarly as Steidlville, and his employees liken a stay there to entering a submarine: the door closes irrevocably behind you, and there is nothing to do but descend.
"I'll have to check that," said Putin, who fielded almost 70 questions in just under four hours, in an event that Kremlin watchers often liken to a tsar listening to his petitioners.
The compound is known familiarly as Steidlville, and his employees liken a stay there to entering a submarine: the door closes irrevocably behind you, and there is nothing to do but descend.
You might liken "Singaporean cuisine," then, to "New York cuisine," in that it reflects the city's cultural makeup—it's a mosaic of dishes from Malaysia, China, Indonesia, India, and parts of Europe.
The document encouraged officials to liken the detained relatives' mental state to a serious, contagious disease like severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, that requires the quarantine of the Uighur detention camps.
Years later, listening to a cassette of the band's debut album, I heard de la Rocha liken those same ribbons — which I hadn't thought about much as a fourth grader — to swastikas.
John H. Neff, one of the three portfolio managers, said that he and his two colleagues, Charles T. Akre Jr. and Thomas Saberhagen, liken their investment process to a three-legged stool.
I liken it to an atrophied muscle that hasn't worked in a long time — it's a little cranky getting it going, but it's a way for Congress to stand up for itself.
"We liken this a lot to what Amex did for wealthy business traveler, [LendUp] could do for different customer," Orloff said, adding that Schulman has a passion for financial inclusion and LendUp's approach.
They liken selfies to cave-man drawings, Renaissance portraits, and self-portraiture, and also want to tell the story of the technological and artistic convergence that made selfies in their current form materialize.
Whether you liken yourself to Kylie or you've come to appreciate Jordyn's chill vibe, you're going to go full fangirl over the newest makeup collaboration with both girls' contoured caricatures all over it.
It's easy to compare Yeay to Ebay as a marketplace and Snapchat as a social network, especially as it added filters and stickers last month, but Mohr prefers to liken it to Musical.
So there was, in short, little to indicate the duo would combine to produce a battle that, inevitably, prompted fans, journalists and even the players themselves to liken it to a heavyweight fight.
Meanwhile, Erdogan's increasingly nationalist and bellicose stances against U.S. and European Union allies and ethnic minorities like the Kurds have lead some observers to liken him to a Turkish version of Donald Trump.
Because shale wells decline rapidly, executives also liken this business to running on a treadmill that never stops — they need to drill new wells constantly to maintain production and continue to generate revenue.
He has landed rhetorical blows on Modi, taking the floor of parliament in March to liken a tax amnesty announced in the budget to a skin-lightening cream that turns black money white.
In one district east of Gaza City, young men donned black and white shirts that resembled those worn by prisoners in concentration camps, a publicity stunt intended to liken the Israelis to Nazis.
The order is all composed of movement and change, and although it is life, not art, we may fancifully call it the art form of the city and liken it to the dance . . .
Variations of the flag are used by the Ground Self-Defence Force and on the fatigues of some Japanese sailors, but some South Koreans liken it to Nazi symbols such as the swastika.
MANILA (Reuters) - Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte appeared to liken himself to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler on Friday and said he would "be happy" to exterminate 3 million drug users and peddlers in the country.
These systems, which analysts liken to a bullet taking out another bullet, could in theory take down a missile with a nuclear payload without detonating it -- although the radiation emitted would still pose risks.
But to liken this year's Wimbledon finalists to fighters actually does a disservice to the traits that sets them apart from their peers, and even from knockout boxers like WBC heavyweight ruler Deontay Wilder.
Mr. Temer, 75, a button-down career politician whose demeanor is so cryptically ceremonious that his rivals liken him to a butler in a horror movie, was apparently inspired by an array of themes.
At the outset in the state, Mr. Kasich's team went so far as to liken his approach to the way he planted himself in New Hampshire, which rewarded him with a second-place showing.
The campaigner and doctor behind MAIMES, Sarah Myhill, has posted YouTube videos setting out her views: "I liken it to child abuse," she says in one that has been viewed more than 8,000 times.
The history of TV is one of upstarts and competitors, and my first instinct was to liken Netflix to something like cable, which rose as a serious competitor to broadcast TV in the 1980s.
"I liken it to a bunch of ants building an ant hill and then somebody comes with a hose and washes it all away and you just have to start from scratch," he said.
He previously ran a popular, moderate government as mayor of Mexico City, but rivals depict him as a dangerous firebrand and liken his policies and style to the socialist project in crisis-hit Venezuela.
The poster below, on a wall in the Ma On Shan district in northeastern Hong Kong, seems to liken front line protesters to the protagonists of a battle scene in a Renaissance oil painting.
Then, on Tuesday, Mr. Trump mentioned Venezuela in his State of the Union address and immediately pivoted to a campaign line that seemed to liken Venezuela's socialist government to liberals in the United States.
Despite that and despite the overwhelmingly negative reactions to Paul's disturbing and tasteless video, some fans continue to support him on YouTube and Twitter, stand up for his actions, and even liken him to Jesus.
And I liken it to, if you think about what if Russia had bought all the advertisements on a network or run the content of a network during a presidential election and swayed it. Right.
" As a passenger, all you might feel is fear, but at the wheel, "Acceleration is under one's control, and the result is a flush of bodily sensation that some people liken to a sexual orgasm.
"I liken it to hitting the lottery," said Marc Minker, who has worked with professional athletes and is the lead managing director at CBIZ MHM, a New York-based national accounting and professional services firm.
Filming also took Lewis back to his hometown of Leeds in Northern England, to accents most non-English viewers will liken to the North on Game of Thrones or the downstairs drawl of Downton Abbey.
The ad tries to liken Pied Piper to a table for sharing — and a metaphor for all that's "beautiful and sad and hopeful and dangerous" about life itself, for that matter — but it doesn't connect.
Y.), the liberal firebrand from Queens, is using her command of social media and her moment in the political spotlight to tackle some of her targets, employing communications techniques some liken to Trump's (The Hill).
They tried to liken the program to a focus group and said Nielsen and comScore run similar programs, yet neither of those ask people to install a VPN or provide root access to the network.
" I liken it a lot, at that time, in terms of thinking strategically about it, to what we went through with music services, which was, "Is that something that's going to develop on its own?
Mr. Schiff's decision during a committee hearing to liken the president's remarks in the July 25 call to a mobster issuing a veiled threat drew the president's ire on Friday, as it had for weeks.
ATHENS (Reuters) - Black-clad protesters in southern Athens have torn down a red sculpture shaped like an angel and broke its wings in a fresh act of violence against an artwork critics liken to Satan.
A children&aposs movie about a police dog who goes undercover at a dog show has come under fire for a controversial scene which many liken to the way a sexual predator grooms kids for abuse.
The researchers liken it to donning a mask with a beak and having a facial recognition system identify you as a bird, ignoring all other characteristics that indicate you're just a person wearing an artificial beak.
In private, some executives liken the situation of German industry in China to the proverbial frog in a pot of slowly heating water which ends up boiling to death because it won't or can't jump out.
Last week, protesters who occupied the terminal at Hong Kong's airport forced the cancellation of nearly 1,000 flights and detained two men they thought were pro-government sympathizers, prompting Beijing to liken the behavior to terrorism.
Last year, he told her of his plan to liken the blockbuster film franchise to constitutional law in a speech he was about to give at the graduation ceremony for the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
"The only thing I can liken it to is if were to pitch like a catapult throwing, like the old school, Game of Thrones catapults as opposed to getting on top of the ball," Verlander said.
" Trying to find a suitable analogy for non-actors, Skarsgard offers, "The closest thing I can liken it to is being in a very destructive relationship, because you never really realize you're in one until you're out.
Many in Jusos liken themselves to "Momentum", a left-wing dissident membership group that has influence in Britain's opposition Labour Party, securing the election of outsider Jeremy Corbyn as leader over the objections of the then-leadership.
I don't think that Momofuku needs to change the longstanding name of its famous crack pie, and it would be futile to suggest that we can no longer ever liken slightly naughty things to Very Bad Things.
COOPERMAN: I LIKEN THAT TO THE FACT THAT THE STOCK MARKET IS LOOKING AT ECONOMIC GROWTH, INFLATION, CORPORATE PROFITS, INTEREST RATES, RATHER THAN WHETHER THE UNITED STATES PRESTIGE AROUND THE WORLD IS GOING UP OR GOING DOWN.
It would be unfair to liken them to children, but they certainly have the mischievousness of class clowns; the sort who'd drastically lower your prospective GCSE marks, but you wouldn't care because you were laughing too much.
We'd liken slipping into a set of the brand's top-rated percale sheets or plush quilted slippers akin to an Eloise-at-The-Plaza type of experience — aka luxurious and the perfect opportunity to score a deal.
I liken the hair strand to a scratched table: When you're repairing it, you pile on the polish, but you remove 99% of it, and what's left plugs the gaps and leaves you with a nice polished surface.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders will decide this autumn where to move EU banking and medicines agencies that they are pulling out of London due to Brexit, using a voting system some liken to the Eurovision song contest.
Senior officials liken the process to Europe's annual TV music schlock-fest, when the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest is often determined by viewers phoning in votes for acts from like-minded neighbouring states and historic allies.
Nuedexta is being increasingly prescribed in nursing homes even though drugmaker Avanir Pharmaceuticals acknowledges in prescribing information that the drug has not been extensively studied in elderly patients -- prompting critics to liken its use to an uncontrolled experiment.
Chosen to lead Mr. Trump's transition efforts, Mr. Christie has taken a role that some of his allies liken to that of a White House chief of staff, soliciting views on what a potential administration should look like.
Barr has become known for defending Trump with single-minded zeal since joining the administration earlier this year, prompting legal experts to liken him to a defense attorney for Trump rather than the nation's top law enforcement official.
No matter how many things Ms. Salazar makes up, it seems unfair to liken her to our post-truth president, who lies on a much grander scale and who has the power to do far, far greater damage.
It is yet another way in which the current administration tries to liken them to hardened criminals, when in fact they are women who crossed the border at great personal cost to seek asylum and flee certain death.
" You might think it's a bit of a stretch to liken 50 Cent's tasteless joke to perceived discrimination against Republicans, but this is a woman who blamed the Tide Pod challenge on "the breakdown of the American family.
His aides have circulated statistics about past elections to reporters in each locale, and Mr. Buttigieg has sought to liken himself — in kind if not by name — to past general-election winners, like Bill Clinton and Mr. Obama.
John Foord, The Times's editor-in-chief (a role that was equivalent to that of the editorial page editor today), took exception — not to Senator Miller's "masterly statement," but to Senator Hoar's "unfortunate" attempt to liken the races.
The best way I can describe the effect is to liken it to a software upgrade for my brain — an update designed to guard against the terrible way the online world takes over your time and your mind.
Some liken the ICO craze to the South Sea bubble in the early 18th century in Britain, when promoters raised funds for companies promising the "transmutation of quicksilver into a malleable fine metal" or a "wheel for perpetual motion".
But seeing Obama with natural-looking ringlets on newsstands brings me a joy that I can only liken to the morning after midterms when I woke up to Democrats taking the House and women of color owning the elections.
The proposed strategy is that energy can be gathered in those prime locations—or any suitable location, for that matter—and transported through a high voltage transmission network, which the researchers liken to an interstate highway of electrical wires.
This general unpleasantness has resulted in occasional lapses in judgment that lead to piss-poor optics; for instance, his disastrously unfunny criticism of a traditional South Indian breakfast, which he somehow saw fit to liken to prison food. Haha!
One early example of her published work at the time is a parody — one could liken it to a cartoon — consisting of a series of eggs acting out a political drama; the eggs having been adorned with Hitler's mustache.
I'd liken this type of puzzle to a very high-concept dessert, with hard drizzled caramel festooning an assortment of bonbons and decorative dabs of fudge on the rim of the plate — you know what I'm talking about. Delectable!
Breitbart's coverage of Sarah Palin and pre-2016 Ted Cruz was fawning — though it paled in comparison to its hagiographic coverage of the Trump campaign, which had led many to liken it to Pravda, the Soviet-era propaganda machine.
"Loot boxes" — a random assortment of virtual rewards that players can purchase in games for real money — have come under fire from critics who liken the practice to gambling, since a person pays for the box without knowing what is inside.
You might liken sound baths to the pose of shavasana — the final, restorative position you take during yoga, also known as corpse pose — but the feeling of relaxation brought on by a sound bath, for me, was much more intense.
Tim Cook made a point during the original Watch's unveiling to liken the Digital Crown as equally innovative and revolutionary as what the mouse was to the Mac in 1984 and what multi-touch was to the iPhone in 2007.
Below, check out some of our favorite gems, which liken the musician to everything from a Star Wars stalwart to our personal favorite, that delicious mainstay of drugstore "fancy" candy selections every where: the crinkly gold foil-wrapped Ferrer Rocher.
Instead of drawing comparisons to the quiet nebbishness of Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg or Microsoft's Bill Gates, some liken him more to the late Steve Jobs — quietly charismatic from afar, but not so warm and fuzzy in the arena of business.
I think people have enjoyed it," Baldwin told CNN, before noting that his busy schedule will limit his SNL appearances in the fall, prompting him to liken his upcoming guest spots to "a couple celery sticks" rather than a "whole meal.
"I liken it to a literary conceit: You take a person from history or mythology — for example, Napoleon while he was a prisoner at Elba or Pocahontas before the Europeans arrived — and invent a few days for yourself," Mr. García explained.
Those who work in the fields of addiction and recovery liken it to the landmark surgeon general reports of the 1950s and 1960s that said smoking caused lung cancer and led Congress in 1965 to require health warnings on cigarette packs.
"I liken it to a bar discussion of the best football team of all time — after 4-5 beers," Dan Costa, the former national program director for air, climate and energy at the EPA, wrote to a colleague in July.
"You just have what I would actually liken to a gold rush in the content space," Rob Master, vice president of global media, categories and partnerships at Unilever, which owns brands like Dove soap and Lipton tea, said during a presentation.
I would liken the feeling you get when you can "name that tune" to the same little delight you get when you've crested the peak of a puzzle like this one and are dead certain you'll be able to complete it.
Though the campaign's umbrella group disavows anti-Semitism, the use of terms like "ethnic cleansing" against Israel, used to liken Israelis to Nazis, are commonplace in the BDS campaign and can arouse feelings of hate and loathing against Jewish students.
The authors liken their plan to the New Deal, but the real parallel is to World War II. It is the state mobilizing as many of society's resources as possible to wage a war on global warming and other ills.
In low doses, say two to three grams of powder in water, it acts like a stimulant, providing a mild buzz users liken to caffeine; in higher doses, it can relieve pain, relax muscles, reduce inflammation, and lead to mood improvements.
It's easy to liken it to the Matrix in the Matrix trilogy; our own Anne Cohen also considered such homages in how Maeve's character appears to be The One, a powerful being within the system that is able to manipulate its rules.
Fahrenheit 11/9 refers to the day that Trump was officially announced as the next U.S. president, and the title seems to liken his election to have had as much of an impact on the country as the September 11 attacks did.
And as Pasquier tries to liken the development arc to Slack, which showed employees wanted some more seamless tool for communication, that company is also working on making its search tools smarter, like helping employees find the right person to ask a question.
A designer builds a collection for the runway with samples, because he doesn't know how it'll grade for all the sizes the brand caters to ("I always liken it to an architect that makes a model before they build a 200-story building").
While it's tempting to liken the Space Council's idea to the Federal Aviation Administration's air traffic control system, the analogy falls apart in a key way, says Brian Weeden, the director of program planning for the space policy NGO the Secure World Foundation.
So liken in Watergate, you have a very serious news organization, CNN, in Watergate, the Washington Post making judgments about what is news and that&aposs really the most important thing that we do when we go out and do our reporting.
Ted Cruz has been going around New York City showing his contempt for "New York values," while Mr. Trump has been stirring his audiences to lusty cheers by reciting a song, "The Snake," that he uses to liken immigrants to poisonous reptiles.
Last week, protesters who occupied the terminal at Hong Kong's airport forced the cancellation of nearly 1,000 flights and detained two men they thought were pro-government sympathisers, prompting Beijing to liken the behaviour to terrorism and leading some protesters to apologise.
"Look there are 28500 senators on the committee, so if you liken this to a baseball game I think he scored runs in all 6900 innings with no errors," the Heritage Foundation's Hans von Spakovsky said on the organization's SCOTUS 2628 podcast.
Letters To the Editor: "Parties' Leaders Work to Rein In Their Renegades" (front page, June 9) seeks, perhaps in the interest of a false equivalence, to liken the Democrats' effort to achieve unity with the Republicans' effort to transmogrify their fascism-flirting candidate.
" ABC canceled "Roseanne" on May 29, hours after Ms. Barr used her Twitter account to liken Valerie Jarrett, a former special adviser to President Barack Obama who is African-American, to the offspring of the Muslim Brotherhood and "Planet of the Apes.
The precarious state of politics hung over our conversation: Hobbes's description of life in the state of nature – "nasty, brutish and short" – prompted the president of a charter-school foundation to liken the vision of the "Leviathan" to "a Donald Trump inaugural speech".
They have lauded the mass arrests as evidence that Prince Mohammed is serious about taking on corruption, and some even liken the forfeiture of billions of dollars of assets by those arrested in exchange for their freedom to plea bargains in America.
Yet participation in World War I was deeply unpopular among US citizens, and political cartoons published in The Masses, such as Henry Glintenkamp's "Physically Fit" (11914), liken the draft to a death sentence, as a skeleton measures a fit young man for a coffin.
Maduro was quick to liken Brazil's situation to his own country's instability -- calling it a "coup" which was "made in the U.S.A." The economy Venezuela's economy shrank 5.7% in 2015 and is expected to contract an additional 8% this year, the International Monetary Fund says.
" He also discussed why he wants to make a political statement: "To watch half the country ignore what is quite obviously right in front of them, I liken it to standing on the railroad tracks cheering for the locomotive that's about to run you down.
"The company's content strategy continues to deliver results, and we liken Netflix's apparent mentality around cash flow (spend as much as makes sense within a modest cash burn and leverage framework) to Amazon's mentality around profit," Canaccord Genuity analysts wrote in a broker note.
He has visited Israel from time to time, but hasn't given the country much concentrated thought, tending to liken its fate to his business prospects: if the core concern is strong, you don't sweat the smaller stuff, which you can't do much to influence anyway.
Oh. Of course, Scheana isn't the only one: fresh-faced newcomers DJ James Kennedy and Lala Kent liken themselves to "Eminem and Dr. Dre," collaborating on hits like "Ain't Nobody Got Me Feelin' Like I'm Feelin' You," which sounds exactly how you think it sounds.
These crosscurrents will be on display during three days of meetings and speeches at the General Assembly — a ritual that some liken to "diplomatic speed dating," but which Mr. Trump treated last year as just another venue to talk about his "America First" policy.
RAZOR COMPANY EARNS PRAISE FOR SHOWING WOMEN WITH BODY HAIR The bikini's name was meant to be shocking Heim had originally called his design the "atome," in an effort to liken the tiny garment's design to that of a similarly tiny atom, according to the Smithsonian .
The Flip or Flop and Christina on the Coast star is 23 weeks pregnant with a baby boy — her third child, and first with husband Ant Anstead — and the dad-to-be used the occasion to liken his son on the way to a sweet tropical treat.
The official said the government is expecting a backlash both from within the state bureaucracy and from rights activists who could liken the moves to the authoritarian era of former President Suharto, when loyalty to the state ideology was mandatory and equated with loyalty to the regime.
It's not clear how traffic and weather data could crash the computer in the infotainment system so spectacularly, but it's definitely cause for concern — you could liken it to a DirecTV set-top box crashing because of "errant" data being broadcast over an ESPN video stream.
Some 75 miles southwest of Stas's position — past sandbagged checkpoints and over roads so badly chewed up by military vehicles that the locals liken driving on them to "riding on a washboard" — lies the city of Avdiivka, where Svitlana Savkevych is the librarian at School No. 6.
When Bill Simmons and Zach Lowe devoted perhaps 3 minutes of a recent pod to the Nets surge, I confess to feelings of pride and validation I can only liken to a U.F.O. conspiracy theorist hearing that the government is probing the sighting of a flying saucer.
To liken our professional roles in The Pussycat Dolls to a prostitution ring not only undermines everything we worked hard to achieve for all those years but also takes the spotlight off the millions of victims who are speaking up and being heard loud and clear around the world.
Others liken the series to The Man In The High Castle, the Amazon series that depicts what the world might look like if the Nazis won World War II. Of course, TV doesn't exist in a bubble — it's a part of the patchwork that makes up our culture.
In the course of trying (and failing) to insult anyone and everyone, Yiannopoulos manages to liken himself to a diverse cast of characters both real and fictional that include Oscar Wilde, Freddy Mercury, Nigel Farage, Martin Luther King Jr., Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the raptors in Jurassic Park.
Despite his interest in the pitching matchup, Bonds did not fawn over the Mets' staff, saying before the game that it was preposterous to liken their stable of talented pitchers to more established acts, like the vaunted Atlanta Braves rotations that included Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine and John Smoltz.
The New York Times piece, published Saturday, contained leaked documents instructing party officials to tell Uighur students that their family members had been imprisoned in a detention camp because they had been affected by "religious extremism," and to liken their conditions to cancer, a disease, or a drug addiction.
" Typical of complaints in this vein was a review by Herbert Leibowitz of Mr. Wilbur's collection "The Mind-Reader" in The New York Times of June 290, 22011: "While we acknowledge his erudition and urbanity, we regretfully liken his mildness to the amiable normality of the bourgeois citizen.
" They continued: "To liken our professional roles in The Pussycat Dolls to a prostitution ring not only undermines everything we worked hard to achieve for all those years but also takes the spotlight off the millions of victims who are speaking up and being heard loud and clear around the world.
HHS said the location is a comfortable environment for children while they wait to be placed with family members or sponsors in the US.But immigrant advocates and others liken such places to child prison camps and have raised concerns that the isolated location will make it hard to provide legal aid.
Prosecutors had tried to link the gang to the Sicilian Mafia and liken its methods to traditional organised crime clans in a bid to win longer sentences and expand the use of anti-mafia legislation beyond its application to well-known, established groups such as the 'Ndrangheta or the Camorra.
Within the euro zone, a rift between austerity-hit southern states on the one hand and Germany and its rich northern allies blew up this week when the Dutch chair of the zone's finance ministers appeared to liken the debtors to a spendthrift who blew his cash on "booze and women".
Julia Serano and Arjee Restar, for example, say they are worried about what it might mean to liken trans identity to a contagious disease — much the same way that gay people have been thought to be contagious and thus prevented from being Boy Scout leaders, teachers, or otherwise fully integrated members of society.
While Samantha has gone so far as to liken her sibling to Cruella de Vil, write a memoir initially titled The Diary of Princess Pushy's Sister, and conduct countless interviews slamming Meghan for not staying in touch with her family post-wedding, her most recent tirade against the royal is particularly unnecessary.
Some liken the increased purchases by the BOJ - the only central bank in the world that buys stocks at the moment - to failed government efforts over more than two decades to prop up the market by pressing government-related financial institutions to buy after the bursting of the late-1980s asset bubble.
In his video on Monday, between drags on a cigar, Mr. Kessler cast himself and his supporters as victims — going so far as to liken today's white nationalists to the African-American students who required the protection of United States marshals and National Guard members to enter the University of Mississippi in 1962.
Departures this summer of chief strategist Steve Bannon and short-lived communications director Anthony Scaramucci had Kelly's imprimatur, to be sure, but also had the blessing of a powerful family member whom some inside the White House liken as the real chief of staff: Jared Kushner, the President's son-in-law and senior aide.
The story is about a father, played by Louis, trying to stop his underaged daughter from sleeping with a much older man, evidently a more ho-hum taboo in an era when evangelical Republican defenders of Roy Moore can liken alleged sexual contact with a 14-year-old to the chaste parentage of the Son of Man.
Many liken it to Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (a story Judge has not yet read), and I still recall a high-school English teacher invoking the movie in an effort to impress on the class what Franz Kafka's life was like, toiling away by day at an insurance company in the twilight of the Hapsburg empire.
While some observers have been tempted to liken Mr. Duterte to Donald J. Trump, the United States presidential candidate, for his provocative, populist rhetoric, others said that it may have been in part Mr. Trump's own remarks about American alliances during his campaign that have led Asian leaders like Mr. Duterte to feel insecure about their ties with the United States.
I just began reading and talking, and it seemed to me that quantum computing was the closest thing I could find to something that you could liken to the Manhattan Project, where there was a technology that really would alter the basics of intelligence collection, of national security, that was not quite over the horizon—it's further than that—but the people were beginning to do things about it.
HHS said the Carrizo Springs location is a comfortable environment for children while they wait to be placed with family members or sponsors in the U.S.But immigrant advocates and others liken such places to child prison camps and worry that the isolated location 110 miles (180 kilometers) from San Antonio, the nearest major city, will make it more difficult to find lawyers to help the teenagers with their immigration cases.
At first we were tempted to liken your outlook for November to the experience of a James Turrell perceptual cell — because you need to take some time to reflect on your experiences and impulses — then we thought better of dropping yet another reference to the Light and Space zen master, so we contemplated comparing your current astrological prognostics to Marilyn Minter's messy photos — because they highlight the up-close ugliness and beauty of human bodies — but we worried we over-rely on Minter analogies.
In A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature, Gordon Williams traces the cherry's cultural influence back to the 16th and 17th centuries, referring to some of the notable ways Europeans were using the fruit to talk about sins of the flesh: Poets Josuah Sylvester and Robert Herrick liken "Cherrielets" to "niplets" and "teates" in multiple works; Charles Cotton compares a "Garden-plot of Maiden-hair" (pubes) to black cherries in Erotopolis (1684); and John Garfield refers to sex as "playing at Bobb-Cherry" in the erotic pamphlet Wandering Whore II (1660).

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