Saying that Spain plays a better style of game than Argentina is akin to declaring Matisse better than Manet.
It is tempting to view the Zurich Insurance suicides as a unique and alien tragedy, akin to the "virgin suicides" in the 1993 novel by Jeffrey Eugenides — the story of five sisters who kill themselves, narrated by a chorus of admirers.
So the situation is more akin to the would-be customers granting Tesla an interest-free overdraft.
He describes Mr Lee as the "Roger Federer of Go", and for some the computer program's achievement is akin to a robot taking to the lawns of Wimbledon and beating the legendary tennis champion.
The reaction from some McDonald's franchisees was akin to that of Tom Brady seeing five burly men trying to knock him straight into the side of a mountain.
We think of obesity as a state of excess, but it's really more akin to a state of starvation.
" In part, more development is necessary to reduce the risk of a social backlash akin to that suffered by Google Glass, Mr Luckey says.
The company owns stakes in Chinese Internet sites with a media bent, like Youku Tudou, which is similar to YouTube, and Sina Weibo, akin to Twitter.
"" For office workers who spend their days working on a computer at a traditional desk, it is fairly old news by now that the medical profession considers sitting for hours a health hazard akin to smoking a pack of cigarettes every day.
But the process to make sake, which includes milling the grains of rice and fermenting them for weeks, is more akin to the beer-making process.
Whether I was making friends with complete strangers, or even efficiently planning a vacation, when I look back on my travels, I feel a sense of pride akin to finishing a marathon.
" The effect of music training suggests that, akin to physical exercise and its impact on body fitness, music is a resource that tones the brain for auditory fitness and thus requires society to re-examine the role of music in shaping individual development,"the researchers said in their study.
Uber's recent moves into shipping packages rather than people signal it's interested in becoming more of a full-on logistics company, akin more to UPS than your local yellow cab service.
As you can imagine, visual learners favor seeing something in order to learn it, and experiential learning types are more akin to learning from events and experiences (or, doing something with the material).
It's a simple idea, akin to tossing a bottle into the cosmic ocean.
Sustained eye contact can give you confidence In the movies, you'll see something akin to this in action.
Inside the bus was a silence akin to that in a church.
Wali and Kamal watched this exchange with something akin to fascination.
Durians, even those harvested from the same branch, can be so nuanced and dissimilar that tasting them is something akin to sampling fine wine.
The attraction of seeing midlife as a period prone to crisis, she says is akin to horoscopes: "It gives you certainty.
