In the play, it is likened to an Englishman's pub.
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Relations fell into a chill, likened to the Cold War.
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Meituan has been likened to U.S. discounting platform Groupon Inc.
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Its historic significance was likened to that of Lawrence v.
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Machine learning techniques can be likened to a black box.
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It has been likened to Cuba and the former East Germany.
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The president's speeches can be likened to a roller coaster ride.
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Many campaigns, often likened to startups, don't have human resources staff.
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One Reddit user even likened to it going to a pilgrimage.
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They've been called gorillas and likened to men playing against women.
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It could be best likened to that of children's lip gloss.
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The job has been likened to graduate school for aspiring coaches.
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It has been likened to severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS.
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Esper said U.S. troops should not be likened to a tripwire.
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In early Hellion reviews, Boleyn's voice is even likened to his.
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" Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, meanwhile, he likened to a "voracious weasel.
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China was likened to colonial powers that "just take everything and go".
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The result was likened to a "political earthquake" and "landslide" by experts.
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Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby's robe was likened to a seltzer can.
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The impact of IoT is being likened to a new industrial revolution.
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So I'm still not entirely sure why I've been likened to Bangs.
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"EU law is likened to a ratchet, clicking only forwards," he writes.
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Gandhi was likened to the Hindu goddess Durga, the slayer of demons.
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Artery-clogging khachapuri, the cheesy bread often likened to pizza, still tempted.
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Dying of black lung can therefore be likened to slowly suffocating to death.
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Pangolins are beautiful, precious little creatures, often likened to an artichoke with legs.
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More than once, I heard his manner likened to that of a wizard.
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Apple's widely respected hardware designs have sometimes been likened to museum-quality pieces.
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Though he has been likened to Quixote, Terry Gilliam says he's Sancho Panza.
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Predicting where oil prices may go is often likened to a fool's game.
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Was it his freak-out over homosexuality, which he has likened to bestiality?
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Schumer and Trump are frequently likened to each other, and for good reason.
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The teenage brain has been likened to a speeding car with no brakes.
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The change in development can be likened to that of Snow Leopard for macOS.
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This debacle of epic proportions has even been likened to this summer's Fyre Festival.
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Dolls Kill is sometimes likened to Nasty Gal, founded in 2006 by Sophia Amoruso.
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She has already been likened to Germany's Merkel for her cautious, low-key style.
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The decision has been likened to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's move on Nov.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - He has been likened to a "silver fox" in China's state media.
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The platza, which Shapiro likened to "Jewish acupuncture," isn't for the faint of heart.
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His three-decade hold on power had been likened to a modern-day pharaoh.
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Also new is the Tiny App Directory, which Roberts likened to the Slack App Directory.
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Facebook's use of Onavo, which has been likened to "corporate spyware," has itself been controversial.
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Getting back together with an ex partner can be likened to repairing an emotional injury.
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Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby's robe was likened to a can of lemon La Croix.
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According to Bustle, this sale can be likened to Ulta's famous 21 Days Of Beauty.
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Should the deer be likened to something, or made to stand in for nature itself?
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Out of the Chinese market, Cramer recommends buying Alibaba, a company he likened to Amazon.
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Commentators wrung their hands: London was likened to an invading army and a giant octopus.
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It was likened to negotiating with an employer or getting an automated customer service message.
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Mr. Slim is often likened to Warren Buffett for his relatively low-key, avuncular style.
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Check out their video (which you may remember they likened to a Korn video) above.
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The controls of the Icon A5 have been likened to that of a sports car.
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Clinton — who, for good measure, was mocked for her laugh, often likened to a cackle.
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He has been likened to Mr. Icahn for his vigorous assertion of minority shareholder rights.
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In Mr. Barron's group, the wine was likened to both a barnyard and horse sweat.
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It's a game likened to a religious experience that opens one's eyes to the possible.
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The Circle is a fictitious company that has been likened to Google, Facebook and Twitter.
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Fame, therefore, is likened to a get-rich-quick fantasy, a shortcut to circumvent societal stagnation.
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THE POLITICAL arts are often likened to magic because they depend on the suspension of disbelief.
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The program is known to host EDM-filled "mega events" that one attendee likened to Coachella.
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Today, everything from contemporary poetry to fan fiction to zine culture is likened to coterie writing.
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It put her apprehension about retirement, which she likened to jumping off a cliff, at ease.
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One of her advisers is being likened to Rasputin by a shrill South Korean news media.
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It's not the first time Trump has been likened to the "Game of Thrones'" supreme brat.
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Late last year, Prada came under fire for depictions likened to blackface on keychains and dolls.
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" But she, too, questioned forcibly removing homeless people from the streets, something she likened to "criminalizing homelessness.
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Something else made this baby happen that can only be likened to some kind of divine magic.
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These waves are often likened to ripples in a pond, except they travel vertically rather than horizontally.
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It could even be likened to how some might occasionally do a nutritional detox in their diet.
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Her photos are often likened to those of Cindy Sherman, arguably our most famous costumed self-portraitist.
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The process of finding optimal solutions is often likened to finding the different "valleys" in mountainous terrain.
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His rule has been likened to a "dictatorship light"; he insists this term will be his last.
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The Straub-Huillet method, often also likened to Bertolt Brecht's theatrical tactic of estrangement, is profoundly intellectual.
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"These messages sent by online daters can be likened to slot machine play in Vegas," she said.
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The Jewish holiday, likened to Halloween, revolves around the Book of Esther, also known as the Megillah.
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In October, Google celebrated a breakthrough that CEO Sundar Pichai likened to the Wright brothers' first flight.
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By then he must pull off the do-or-die miracle he's likened to a moon landing.
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The pattern is likened to a flag on a pole, while the consolidated trading mimics a flag.
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Disentangling itself while determining new rules is a process that has been likened to unscrambling an omelet.
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Among the most intriguing exoplanets are those likened to ones we see in the "Star Wars" galaxy.
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Often, national service is likened to military service: both patriotic calls to serve and honor the nation.
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There are also straps worn on the chest that some on social media likened to a holster.
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Lebanon today can be likened to a bus without brakes, its driver hurtling toward a brick wall.
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The exposure of mammals to such noise has been likened to living in a permanent construction zone.
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The sensory stimuli were likened to air "baffling" inside a moving car with the windows partially rolled down.
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In recent weeks he's been likened to everything from an Australian frog to Dolores Umbridge from Harry Potter.
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The settlement has been likened to a concentration camp; living conditions are rough; the risk of exploitation high.
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While Trump is rarely likened to the man known as "Silent Cal," Shiller finds the historical comparison useful.
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The attack on Skripal has been likened to the killing of ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in Britain.
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In the realm of table tennis — a subtle sport often likened to chess — these were vividly unusual scenes.
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Even the occasional false notes (a few too many patients are likened to trembling trees) are easily forgivable.
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The government turns a blind eye to the commercial enterprise, which some have likened to an alternative Internet.
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Their targets included images of Winnie the Pooh, because Mr. Xi is sometimes likened to the cartoon bear.
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The situation has been likened to "an ongoing terrorist attack," as one Ohio newspaper editor recently put it.
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Tall and V-shaped, blond and chiseled, Mr. Hunnam has been likened to Brad Pitt and Channing Tatum.
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Though the Chinese were once Mongol victims, modern-day China is often likened to the expansionist Mongol empire.
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Italy&aposs interior minister has likened to hijackers some 60 rescued migrants refusing attempts to return them to Libya.
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There have been concerns about construction conditions for migrant laborers in Qatar, which some have likened to indentured servitude.
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Chansa grew up in Chibolya, a poor Lusaka township which one Zambian journalist recently likened to Sodom and Gomorrah.
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PIPPA MIDDLETON'S MODEST ROYAL WEDDING DRESS LIKENED TO ARIZONA GREEN TEA "Pippa Middleton sponsored by Arizona," another person tweeted.
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Raven Tech's Flow product was likened to a Chinese version of Siri, but it has failed to take off.
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That was in for the video for "Underwater Games"—a song we likened to Warpaint at their most narcotized.
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The company is constructing another campus in the city, a massive loop of glass often likened to a spaceship.
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They've been likened to taped recordings of a stage play, with obviously fake props and easy-to-see makeup.
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By Sunday, all four socialist officials atop the Bolivian government had resigned in what Morales likened to a coup.
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For "Motherland or Death" (2011), he traveled to Socialist Cuba, which he likened to the '70s-era Soviet Union.
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"Like" does not work in this comparison because there's nothing that "the Democratic caucus" is directly likened to. Rephrase.
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Brash and openly scathing of the political establishment on the campaign trail, he has been likened to Donald Trump.
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The effect has been likened to slapping a wet, hard beach and the sand beneath your palm becomes jelly.
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It can be best likened to a piece of gum that has been chewed for a few days straight.
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Our own eye has been likened to a camera: it uses a lens to focus light on the retina.
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Our dependence on fossil fuels is often likened to that of cigarette smoking, but the analogy doesn't hold up.
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Buttigieg went up to the family and tried to communicate with them in Dari, which he likened to Farsi.
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If there's any display that can be likened to an Imperial Star Destroyer looming over minuscule freighters, it's this.
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Rousey has often been likened to Mike Tyson, another fighter who made short work of his opponents for years.
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Her writing on nature and spirituality has been likened to Thoreau's, and won a Pulitzer for nonfiction in 1975.
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In his early days, he was likened to George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Kennedy, even Ronald Reagan.
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ET Salt and Sanctuary is regularly likened to a 2D Dark Souls because of its gritty style and difficulty.
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" The Large Blue has an extraordinary life cycle, which Mr. Creedon likened to "a plot from the movie 'Aliens.
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That's a huge ambition — one that is likened to the invention of electricity, the internet, or the industrial revolution.
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Trump is likened to Israel's right-wing president Benjamin Netayanhu who, the film suggests, is also chosen by God.
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What Wiley saw was a snapshot of complex choreography and teamwork that he likened to sophisticated tool use among apes.
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Telomeres are genetic structures found at the tips of chromosomes, and have been likened to protective caps for DNA material.
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What happened here is often likened to a big black cloud hanging over the city that has never fully lifted.
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Duterte, 71, is the alternative candidate, often likened to Donald Trump and considered both an entertainer and a loose cannon.
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A weakened polar vortex can be likened to a spinning top that starts to wobble more as its speed decreases.
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Likened to being a real-life wolf-man, Gonsalvus the "monster" was a monster hit amongst curious noblemen and women.
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According to Helfand, Prince likened to the situation to what it's like for an artist to have a studio visit.
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Crypto's proven volatility has been likened to gambling and speculation, a critical reason behind the debate of halal and haram.
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"The benefit of some complementary and alternative-medicine treatments has been likened to the vacation effect," he said by email.
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They can be likened to the DIY indie game culture we know in the west, often on platforms like itch.
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Noguchi's lamp forms are compared to those of Buckminster Fuller, or, rather, Fuller's aesthetic is likened to traditional Japanese craft.
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The poorly trained Coast Guard, often likened to a boat-riding militia, says it pushed back 18,000 people last year.
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Some communities dislike the smell of the beet wastewater, which people have likened to soy sauce, molasses or stale coffee.
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In chaebol culture, often likened to an imperial monarchy within South Korea, the chairman must endorse or make corporate decisions.
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The Hindu nationalist rhetoric of Modi and his ruling BJP party have also been likened to Trump's "America First" agenda.
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It's an odd-looking chair on wheels that some quickly likened to one used in the Pixar film Wall-E.
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Each chapter is based on one of his compositions, which he likened to children that a parent molds and guides.
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LONDON — If the history of art could be likened to a card game, Claude Cahun had the ultimate poker face.
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It's been likened to an inverted pop record, and that sounds appropriate, though I'm not quite sure what it means.
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He has backed away from proposals for radical changes to insurance and the national health system that critics likened to privatisation.
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The Eritrean regime hates being likened to North Korea's—and it does not have nuclear weapons—but the comparison is unavoidable.
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Since its launch in the early 1990s it has often been likened to a casino populated by mom-and-pop investors.
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This act of scribing might also be likened to a Book of Hours, of making one's own private Book of Hours.
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Most of today's quantum computers are best-likened to jolty, primitive airplanes from 19th-century newsreel footage — they're far from perfect.
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Grover also talked up Feedr's tech, which she says enables "dynamic menu building," something she likened to a Netflix for food.
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In Parliament, she was likened to an orangutan and bananas were thrown at her by far-right activists during public rallies.
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The prospect of asteroid mining, long the stuff of science fiction, is now being likened to a 21st-century gold rush.
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Meng is the daughter of one of founders of Huawei, a company that has been likened to the Apple of China.
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" Even Eduardo, who wears a rakish eye patch, is likened to "a high priest or a Dracula or a Fu Manchu.
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I've fielded threatening calls and emails demanding we cancel events and been likened to Adolf Hitler when I didn't back down.
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At Rainville&aposs farm, Darby waded into waist-high milkweed, bending to sniff tightly knit flowers that she likened to lilacs.
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Or is it because Jenner's hair has already been likened to a very Kim K circa Paris Fashion Week 2015 sheen?
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Their declarations of rage, triumph, fear and warning possess a directness and universality that Mr. Indiana likened to the Ten Commandments.
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The plight of livestock animals has been compared to Holocaust victims; captive whales at SeaWorld have been likened to chattel slaves.
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Some sites like Stripchat increased pay for some performers and offered free tokens to consumers, which Stabile likened to monetary easing.
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It was a request that one Israeli columnist likened to a birthday boy being told to wait to open his gift.
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The NPC gathering includes the government work report, which can be likened to the US' annual State of the Union address.
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Curling, which can be likened to shuffleboard, bocce or darts, is played on a sheet of ice with a pebbled surface.
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Guo B has often been likened to him, but when I mentioned the comparison I evoked a rare flash of temper.
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This isn't Warren's first jab at private equity firms, which she has likened to "vampires" over their use of leveraged buyouts.
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We also spoke with Karen McCormick, an investor in the esports firm Team Fnatic, which has been likened to Real Madrid.
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Instead, McNeil described an assembly line system he likened to a NASCAR pit stop, staffed by technicians who are Lyft employees.
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When it was performed, it felt like a total barrage on the senses, which I likened to a kind of synesthesia.
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Payment installments, which Reses likened to a "super power" for small retailers, are otherwise offered through a larger bank or third party.
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Likened to a "rockstar" in India, Rajan became a popular figure in a country where central bankers typically stay outside the limelight.
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Likened to a "digital hospital," the company lets patients book a number of medical procedures through its web and app-based platform.
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Eritrea's national service program was likened "to slavery in its effects" by the United Nations in 2015, an allegation the government rejects.
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It's called molka in South Korea and it's been likened to a "social death penalty," that affects thousands of women every year.
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The ADMX is technically known as an axion haloscope, which University of Washington physicist Gray Rybka likened to a large radio receiver.
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But by extending its grasp over Poland's state-controlled companies, which Mr Jackiewicz likened to "sovereign princedoms", PiS has strengthened its base.
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The speed and slickness of the procedure, often yielding blurred, unpredictable results, can be likened to photography, which Degas used and understood.
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He had been startled by a clangorous noise that he later likened to the sound of an aluminum bat striking a lamppost.
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The 19-year-old has been dubbed the "heir to Rui Costa", and likened to two-time Champions League winner Paolo Sousa.
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Still, he felt compelled to stay with the animals, whom he likened to the goddess Lakshmi, or the Hindu goddess of wealth.
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Marriage has been likened to a gem tumbler; it's banging two rocks together in order to eventually bring out their deeper sparkle.
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It is likened to prosciutto because it is a cured, salty, deeply flavorful product; to truffles because of its umami-rich qualities.
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It also appeared to deepen the tension between Mr. Trump and the United Nations, which he once likened to a social club.
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She roamed Facebook seeking people who wanted to go the women's march in January 2017, an experience she likened to surfing Match.com.
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Even though the earliest iPad was likened to a giant iPod Touch, Apple's ambitions for the tablet were much greater than that.
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He has held workshops for Steadicam operators ever since "The Shining," a film he likened to a master class in the device.
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He also insisted the media was to blame for the tensions with intelligence agencies, which he likened to Nazis earlier this month.
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His shows are notoriously long, intricately contrived collages of texts, which have sometimes been likened to long-haul flights with numerous detours.
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It's been likened to a "brain massage" or a "braingasm," though many early users were adamant that the experience was not sexual.
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The official described all those issues as "interconnected" as part of a "package deal" that was likened to a Russian nesting doll.
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Serena Williams has been likened to a man, alongside her older sister Venus; her impressive, beautiful body scrutinized for most of her career.
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It can be likened to the early days of mobile operating systems, where there were several systems including iOS, BlackBerryOS, Android and Symbian.
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Whether or not a favorite dessert can be likened to sex is an opinion that has to be left up to the individual.
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Rowling previously shared her disdain for Trump, linking to a BBC story on Twitter about the candidate being likened to the series' antagonist.
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The turning point came when Song was sent to a labor camp, which he likened to the concentration camps of World War Two.
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The controversial practice, which simulates drowning, has been likened to torture but supporters say it has helped extract valuable information from hardened terrorists.
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The rush of buying them and rolling the dice on their contents has been likened to the psychological sensation one feels when gambling.
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Top White House adviser Jared Kushner is reportedly registered to vote in two states — something President Trump likened to voter fraud this week.
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Clinton's evolution can be likened to a professionalization — to the kind of shift that occurs as a president gains on-the-job training.
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Congressional efforts at healthcare reform such as the ACA and now American Health Care Act (AHCA) could be likened to fixing a computer.
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The Museum positions itself as a collection of installations, though it's been likened to something more like an enlarged funhouse by its critics.
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Much of his time was spent disagreeing with other radicals, attacking Proudhon in particular, whom he likened to one of the "bourgeois economists".
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Workers have long complained about food, housing and work safety conditions at the construction site, which unions have likened to a concentration camp.
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The results would be called Supergraphics, a pioneering blend of design and architecture that she likened to a mix of dancing and drawing.
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Its central office building – a massive ring of glass frequently likened to a spaceship – could be a challenge just to navigate, she noted.
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Austin's role in shaping what became the State of Texas is often likened to that of President George Washington in the United States.
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Its glossy, crumpled surface has been variously likened to an oil slick, an ocean of garbage, and a wall of discarded film stock.
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Likened to Stitch Fix, a subscription-based styling service, Find Mine is one of many players helping apparel brands get closer to consumers.
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Often likened to the British entrepreneur Richard Branson, Mr. Mallya, 61, turned what had been a family brewing business into a sprawling conglomerate.
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The future of New Zealand's next government lies in the hands of an opposition leader who has been likened to President Donald Trump.
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" In some of the counts of aggravated battery against Miles and the Schlitterbahn Waterpark, the Verruckt waterslide is likened to "a deadly weapon.
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At the Embers, on the East Side of Manhattan, she once shared the bill with Tatum, which she likened to playing with God.
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Augusta National is sometimes likened to Oz. For one thing, it's a Technicolor fantasyland embedded in an otherwise ordinary tract of American sprawl.
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The phrase "cancel culture" â€" the internet-wide affinity for declaring an individual problematic â€" has been likened to a digital witch hunt.
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Its central office building - a massive ring of glass frequently likened to a spaceship - could be a challenge just to navigate, she noted.
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In the current worldwide #MeToo moment, "The Bride" can be likened to an allegory on patriarchy, dominance and power, personal agency and yielding.
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Besides questioning self worth over heavy guitar riffs, his latest album Do the Boogie—a follow up to last year's excellent More Than Enough—contains swaggering boogie rock that's been likened to Canned Heat, damaged noise in the vein of Cleveland's Pere Ubu and more fragile pieces that's been likened to the New Zealand pop of David Kilgour and Peter Jefferies.
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That's long been true, but the pace of innovation means financial juggernauts now face what one top executive likened to a mass extinction event.
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The pope decried that migrants sent back to Libya suffer torture and other abuse in prisons he likened to World War II concentration camps.
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The complicated emotional narratives that accompany the tense drama can be likened to those of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Netflix's Maniac.
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The smell is likened to fish, feces, and garbage, and excreted through the pores, sweat, urine, saliva, and even vaginal fluids of those affected.
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Joe Concha, I mean, what about comparing these kids whose parents are being separated them from as likened to children in Nazi concentration camps?
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The regulator issued a consultation paper outlining plans to ban all sales of binary options to retail customers, which it likened to gambling products.
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Doctor Cameron's experiments have been likened to psychological torture: he put patients in "sleep rooms," which were drug-induced comas that lasted for weeks.
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Intellia Therapeutics is hoping to transform the future of medicine with its gene-editing technology, which its CEO likened to a pair of scissors.
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American Apparel's have been ubiquitous for years; Outdoor Voices' version has even been likened to perpetually sold-out, $500-plus Mansur Gavriel bucket bags.
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That led to a war that lasted nearly the entire decade of the 1980s, a quagmire that was often likened to Russia's Vietnam War.
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This time around, however, fans are obsessing over the real-life Clay and Hannah's awesome selfie, which star Langford likened to another YA novel.
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The Southeast Asian fruit has a custard-like texture with a taste that some have likened to onions, gas leaks or even smelly socks.
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With an outrageous style that has been likened to Donald J. Trump's, Mr. Duterte has tapped into widespread discontent over unemployment, crime and corruption.
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"Bring your satire up to date as well," wrote Boldrini, who was likened to an inflatable sex doll by a political opponent last month.
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The remaining grassland is knit through with deep roots likened to an "underground forest" that also locks large amounts of carbon in the soil.
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The Algerian war in the French psyche is often likened to the Vietnam War for Americans — two conscription wars that ended in humiliating defeat.
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All jokes aside, it turns out that what the internet likened to a "turkey call" was actually an intentional nod to Shakira's colorful heritage.
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The discoveries of lawmakers — sometimes unknowingly — holding dual citizenship has been likened to a virus spreading through Parliament, picking off members month after month.
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It boasts a climate that has been likened to that of Kansas -- something Pompeo, once a congressman from that state, might want to remember.
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The opioid epidemic has been likened to the black plague, with the U.S. reaching a peak of 2628,28503 deaths due to overdose in 22019.
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While there, McCaul said he observed "complete disinformation campaign warfare" from Russia he likened to the campaign that was waged in the United States.
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He also thinks elites should stop using the derogatory "redneck" to describe the rural working class, a term he likened to a racial slur.
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This storm marked the first time since 2006 that Anderson Reservoir's spillway activated, producing heavy outflows that the San Francisco Chronicle likened to Niagara Falls.
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Billy Beane's approach, often likened to Wenger's, was not a crusade of principals, but a strict focus on the reality of running a modern team.
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Black with a red waistband, the full-length bodysuit looked striking on Williams, a new mom; she was likened to a superhero in the ensemble.
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Well, okay, he still sputtered about some things (see: President-elect Donald Trump, whom he likened to "a human What Is Wrong with this Picture").
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But there are limits to how far this model can be applied to a job that has been likened to drinking from a fire-hose.
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The view has been likened to that of the so-called birthers, who do not believe that Mr. Obama was born in the United States.
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The Japanese company said it was taking advantage of the downturn in the shipping sector, which some had likened to a "perfect storm", it said.
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Many activists have expressed fear that Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam could issue an emergency ordinance that some have likened to imposing martial law.
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The proposed independent investigative board, which proponents have likened to the 2628/28500 Commission, has majority support among Republicans, Democrats and independents in the poll.
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" The potential threats include nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, mines, and a cyber program that he has likened to "children juggling light bulbs filled with nitroglycerine.
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Efron hit the step-and-repeat in an oversized, patchwork denim jacket that most likened to Justin Timberlake's Canadian tuxedo from the event in 2001.
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It is sometimes likened to Switzerland for its relative political neutrality and its history of serving as banker in a region of dictators and oligarchs.
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The use of stolen information from the Edgar system has been likened to insider trading, but there is a crucial difference when hacking is involved.
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LONDON — It has been likened to a beach hut, mocked as being garish and compared to a giant candy cane or an ice cream stall.
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This year, it emerged that gay men had been detained and tortured in the Chechnya region of Russia, in what observers likened to a pogrom.
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That controversy in turn helped lead to numerous government efforts to curb the sale of randomized in-game items, which many likened to unregulated gambling.
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" According to Vogue, Warren's wardrobe is "kept in spectral order," which results in a look likened to Mr. Rogers's closet "stretched across a color wheel.
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"The uptick of hate crimes or bias-motivated crimes this last year can be likened to the national climate, mood and discord," Mr. Haley said.
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Stockholm case likened to Fritzl kidnapping Fritz was found guilty of rape and imprisonment at his 2009 trial and was sentenced to life in prison.
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Facebook on Tuesday released its plans for the new board previously likened to a "Supreme Court" that can overturn the company's own content moderation decisions.
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"One thing that could be likened to those that are in immigration detention or immigration incarceration is that the communication is very difficult," Chavarria said.
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The sound was likened to "buzzing, grinding metal, piercing squeals, and humming" and lasted anywhere from 10-second pulses to more than 30 minutes long.
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He also suggested that prison causes homosexuality, which he separately likened to bestiality, and that Planned Parenthood aimed, through abortions, to limit the black population.
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But even that has come as a last resort, in what some have likened to negotiating out of desperation after failing to score political points.
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For years the Ferrari, likened to a Picasso of the motoring world, has been based in Germany but shown and driven at event around the world.
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For years, the Ferrari, likened to a Picasso of the motoring world, has been based in Germany but shown and driven at events around the world.
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Investor Marc Andreessen took to Twitter to express his irritation with the regulator's decision in a statement that some on the Internet likened to colonialist attitudes.
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Set in a towering New York shelter that Kozol likened to an urban refugee camp, the book sought to excavate the causes of this great displacement.
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But his challenge faded later in the race as he attempted to battle through with a damaged car that he likened to a "four-poster bed".
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During his down time, Reubens engaged in thrift-store binges he likened to acts of rescue, filling his house, and several storage lockers, with salvaged treasure.
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The Winnie the Pooh meme, for instance, reflects a popular joke about China's president, Xi Jinping, whose physique is often likened to that of the bear.
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The latter has long been likened to the Academy Awards in that it's the most prestigious prize a designer can receive this side of the Atlantic.
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This "Great White Hunter" is hardly separable from the white Western imperialist bent on the conquest of the other, who is likened to a savage beast.
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Instead of using developer time, staff automate tasks themselves, without writing any code, with a simple user interface that is likened to learning PowerPoint or Excel.
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Here comes the Fed Meanwhile, the Fed is preparing to lower interest rates — a strategy that officials have likened to taking out "insurance" on the economy.
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It tends to go after only small banks in strategically unimportant countries; its use of 311 has been likened to using a sledgehammer to crack nuts.
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The politics are so toxic, Professor Menon added, that they make a disorderly departure from the bloc — often likened to walking over a cliff edge — plausible.
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There's a certain degree of depth to them, as though they can be likened to where our thoughts go to be interminably buried or reflected upon.
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These remedies have been likened to an internal break-up of the company — with enforced internal separation of its multiple platform products at the data level.
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A shopkeeper, D. P. Nimal Ratnasinghe, said the mountainside broke loose Tuesday night with a deafening roar that he likened to that of a helicopter landing.
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The campaign has been likened to President Rodrigo Duterte's brutal drug war in the Philippines and human rights group have accused the government of extrajudicial killings.
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The brain has been, in turn, likened to clay infused with spirit, a hydraulic device driven by liquid "humours", a clockwork engine—and now a computer.
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The protests, which China this week likened to terrorism, present President Xi Jinping with one of his biggest challenges since he came to power in 2012.
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The government is introducing more foreign institutional investors, hoping they can help improve the trading culture in the country's stock market - sometimes likened to a casino.
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Velpeau was just as astonished by what he likened to a thick gruel, leading him to conclude that his dead patient's blood was full of pus.
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Hundreds of people were found in the cargo hold of a shipping vessel, in conditions that an aid worker likened to those of a slave ship.
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But this port also took on a slightly savory, saline flavor that Martina Mirandola Mullen of New York likened to a brininess derived from the sea.
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In the song, a woman, in a voice that a New York Times critic likened to that of an "avenging banshee," lays into a former lover.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Courage to Change slate and her challenge, which will be decided March 2003, has been likened to Ocasio-Cortez's unseating of former Rep.
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Before returning to street level — and the inevitable retail experience — visitors pass through a digital center that includes what Ms. Truitt likened to a visual encyclopedia.
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The White House was also silent about the long-term implications of the referendum, which some experts have likened to a deathblow to democracy in Turkey.
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The politics are so toxic, Professor Menon added, that they make a disorderly departure from the bloc — often likened to walking off a cliff edge — plausible.
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After receiving a presidential pardon, the members of the group were transferred to a "reception center" in conditions that Mr. al-Hussein likened to administrative detention.
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Acrylic paint, slathered, smoothed, and textured, is likened to the synthetic colors and substances that are part of processed convenience foods, food dyes, and cake icing.
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If human biological complexity can be likened to an animated movie, then a hundred years ago we had about one pixel's worth of understanding of that complexity.
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In some respects, the film arrives at a propitious time, looking back at that "one brief shining moment" when a presidential administration could be likened to Camelot.
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Duterte, who is sometimes likened to Donald Trump for his blunt rhetorical style and strongman persona, served as mayor of Davao for seven terms before becoming president.
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Our brains have been likened to little more than Theory of Mind machines—almost all of our higher level processing power is shunted into this singular task.
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On foreign affairs, by contrast, he was an embarrassing apologist for Russia's Vladimir Putin, whose invasion of Crimea he bizarrely likened to the Western intervention in Kosovo.
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Namibia has in recent years attracted interest from oil and gas companies keen to explore its offshore potential, which has been likened to Brazil's prolific Santos basin.
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The esports comedy is being likened to Talladega Nights, a 2006 comedy film written by and starring Ferrell, who plays dysfunctional and successful NASCAR driver Ricky Bobby.
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East Asia's growth pattern has for decades been likened to a skein of geese, from Japan at the vanguard to laggards such as Myanmar at the rear.
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In Syria, it also began to reestablish "illicit fundraising capabilities" which the report likened to "taxes" on residents and businesses where it operates, the inspector general found.
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Its precision is so great that this functionally blind mammal's ability to feel its way around its underground environment has been likened to our sense of sight.
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Prominent investor George Soros was recently likened to a "crocodile" that had declared "war" on China for suggesting the country's economy was heading for a hard landing.
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The "doctors" are specialists at ski companies like Atomic and Head, who he likened to Formula One mechanics, who work to rebuild skis mangled at the Games.
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The attacks also undermined an effort led by the United Arab Emirates to stabilize Yemen's chaotic south, a project that Emirati officials have likened to state-building.
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But The Last Jedi treats them more like a garnish or a condiment than a meal (with apologies to anyone who hates hearing porgs likened to food).
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Then there's the clean, stylized packaging which Pin Man likened to "Apple store headphones" and is also geared to make condoms more appealing to the cool kids.
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The legislation, which some Russian media have likened to an online "iron curtain," passed its first of three readings in the 450-seat lower chamber of parliament.
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Once in Chicago, he was handed new clothes that he likened to a uniform: shirts, two pairs of shorts, a sweatsuit, boxers and some items for hygiene.
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A bear of a man who was sometimes likened to one of Sendak's Wild Things, Mr. Knussen was among the most influential British composers of his generation.
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The Turner Prize, founded in 1984, could be likened to the Oscar of the art world, and it can give a major boost to an artist's career.
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Every month, employees are compelled to gather in a subterranean chamber for two-and-a-half-hour staff meetings that have been likened to a megachurch experience.
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The flavor of retsina, a wine infused with the resin of Aleppo pine trees, has often been likened to turpentine, even by people who like the stuff.
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After the adrenaline rush of demanding money from the teller, he felt strangely peaceful, a sensation he likened to the sense of focus he felt in combat.
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Dr. Eaton said the fracking process could be likened to small underground explosions, shocks that travel into the rock formation and rapidly change the stress patterns within.
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The army was deployed in July to help quell escalating violence that has killed hundreds this year and that some officials have likened to a war zone.
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The chief justice has long been known for his extensive preparation and an ability to foresee what's ahead, which some colleagues have likened to three-dimensional chess.
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Fellow billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who Lampert was once likened to, has expressed the opinion that the one-time Sears CEO was in a no-win situation.
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For businesses, supplying zero-ABV beverages can be likened to the rise of craft beers, said Eric Schmidt, director of alcohol research for the Beverage Marketing Corporation.
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The California Coastal Commission, created 2100 years ago, is an independent entity whose authority has been likened to that of Robert Moses, the powerful New York City planner.
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Tibeb Girls, which some have likened to The Powerpuff Girls, was created by Whiz Kids Workshop — the company behind the award-winning educational children's series Tsehai Loves Learning.
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Ryan's solution to the problem was the McGriddle, which a sweet-meets-savory dish likened to a Denny's Grand Slam meal that customers could hold in their hands.
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For a company like ExxonMobil building the $19 billion PNG LNG project, a mammoth four-year task which it likened to constructing on the moon, that was doable.
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The esports comedy is being likened to Talladega Nights Major esports team organizations Evil Geniuses and Fnatic may also have a presence in the movie, the release said.
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The comparison is not a slapdash one, as if one black musician with a particular set of interests must reflexively be likened to another in a different country.
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In the field of paleontology, uncovering just one complete skeleton has been likened to winning the lottery, but lying here were over 1,500 fossils amounting to multiple jackpots.
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AI is often likened to electricity, and when electrification began in the late 19th century, entire cities used only as much power as a single household does today.
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By comparison, prices at Olympic Tower, a 1975 Midtown building likened to Trump Tower that is a few blocks south on Fifth Avenue, dropped 21 percent since 2015.
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They include China&aposs Xi Jinping, whom Trump has likened to "a king," and the Philippines&apos Rodrigo Duterte, who has sanctioned the extrajudicial killings of drug dealers.
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Trump's message has been likened to that of Richard Nixon in the 1968 campaign, who also advocated for "law and order" following the social unrest of the 1960s.
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Not so long ago, the floppy-haired Harry Styles was ringleader of One Direction, a British boy band that fans likened to the second coming of The Beatles.
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Overcast skies and long stretches of shipping yards, British artist Darren Reid brings England to life in realistic paintings that many have likened to stepping into a photo.
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A former science teacher in New Mexico admitted Tuesday to manufacturing crystal methamphetamine in a case authorities have likened to the AMC hit series Breaking Bad, PEOPLE confirms.
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To that end, he and the Pose producers spent "months and months and months" casting the show, a process he likened to first casting his Fox musical Glee.
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The record, which she describes as being part of her "Gram Parsons phase," was likened to Operation Ivy and Green Day, comparisons that were clearly meant as digs.
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Business Insider earlier this week told the cautionary tale of Fling, a racy photo-and video-messaging app likened to Chatroulette, and its young owner, Londoner Marco Nardone.
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These tycoons, who are often likened to the robber barons of America's Gilded Age at the turn of the 20th century, would go on to amass vast fortunes.
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The speed and creativity of the offensive show put on by the young guns was likened to that of the Oilers in their 1980s, Wayne Gretzky-era heyday.
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" Lartey said his supervisors "only wanted a few people" involved in the painstaking process of putting Trump's papers back together -- a process he likened to "an adult puzzle.
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In a tweet, the president slammed Democrats for their immigration proposals, which he likened to "open borders" while accusing "Republican leadership" of going along with the minority party.
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Meituan-Dianping was formed in 2015 from the $20143 billion merger of Meituan, likened to U.S. discounting platform Groupon, and Dianping, akin to U.S. online review firm Yelp.
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The two had met through the firm a year before and became friends, discussing half-baked ideas for a defense tech company that they likened to Stark Industries.
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" He said becoming a conductor had allowed him to overcome his own shortcomings as a violinist, which he likened to being "like an actor with a speech impediment.
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The new standoff, raw and unpredictable, has been likened to a "fight without rules" by Konstantin Kosachev, head of the upper house of Russian parliament's foreign affairs committee.
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White women continued to be likened to a waxen Venus and white men to marble Apollos, whereas Black bodies were often purposefully associated with simians rather than statues.
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Andrie was one of them, having been affected in three fingers with what the Cowboys' physician, Dr. Marvin Knight, likened to second-degree burns caused by a fire.
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South Korea's Sports Ministry this week asked the International Olympics Committee to prohibit any use of the flag, which it likened to the Nazi's use of the swastika.
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Overall, some 250 companies — new and old, domestic and multinational — filed to go public this year, a phenomenon some likened to the dotcom bubble of the late 1990s.
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A spokeswoman for the military, whose triumph in the so-called Six-Day War has been likened to a miracle by some analysts, summed up the muted feeling.
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Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas) called out a Texas state legislator Thursday night for a tweet that he likened to a "death threat" following the latest Democratic presidential debate.
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Disney's new movie "Christopher Robin" has reportedly been banned from release in China because its main character, a talking bear, has previously been likened to President Xi Jinping.
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THE WORKINGS of the solar system were once likened to the machinations of a precise clock, but the orbits of the planets haven't always been so perfectly balanced.
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I have visited many refugee camps in the Middle East, but never have I seen anything like Moria, a place Pope Francis has likened to a concentration camp.
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Plants here send roots deep into the earth to survive seasonal drought and fires, creating a vast underground network that some have likened to an upside-down forest.
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After finding a suitable egg donor, a process the men likened to "online dating only so much worse," they languished on a waiting list for surrogates for months.
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Piven said the research can be likened to similar efforts to detect other brain disorders earlier in life, such as Parkinson's or Alzheimer's, before they begin to impair patients.
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Magrafta occasionally interjected to try to steer the conversation back to his main talking point: the abuses of the Palestinian Authority, which he at one point likened to ISIS.
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Saavn, the music streaming service we've likened to 'India's Spotify' in the past, has landed a notable strategic investor that could help it unlock more artists and business potential.
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That iteration was both likened to the Papa John's slogan and criticized for its meritocratic undertones by putting "skills" first, suggesting the former correlates with better jobs and wages.
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The shimmering shoals of fish can stretch up to 7 km (4.3 miles) and are sometimes likened to the great wildebeest migrations on the Serengeti plain of East Africa.
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Likened to a "social curse" by Qatari commentators and a "fever spreading from house to house", over-indebtedness among the much smaller local population is a raising national concern.
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A three-hundred-and-eighty-foot lattice of red steel loops around a red steel trunk, it has been likened to the site of a major roller-coaster accident.
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On the surface, Reshopper might be likened to other hyper local flea market-styled mobile apps, such as Wallapop, Shpock or Gone, but one that targets a specific vertical.
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The most frequent target is an expected one: President Donald Trump, whose misspelled, inconsistently capitalized, outdoor-voice-used-indoors tweets are often likened to a racist Dr. Bronner's label.
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After Williams won the French Open in 2015, for example, Desmond-Harris wrote: Williams was compared to an animal, likened to a man, and deemed frightening and horrifyingly unattractive.
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When women were needed during World War II, cutting sheet metal was likened to cutting a pattern through cloth, and welding to opening an orange juice can, she said.
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Ms. Cabán's possible win has been likened to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's surprising primary victory last year over the powerful Democratic incumbent, Joseph Crowley, and the two share some similarities.
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He is characterized as an instrument — witting or otherwise — for the divine plan, often likened to the biblical Persian (and pagan) king Cyrus, who delivered the Jews from Babylon.
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But those who brave Fifth Avenue at this time of year have no choice but to move with the masses at a pace that Mr. Arnold likened to molasses.
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More than a million Uighur Muslims have been detained in reeducation camps — likened to concentration camps — since 2017, thanks in part to facial recognition tools created by these companies.
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The photo could have been likened to a majestic painting if it weren't for a boy doing a handstand, his foot smack dab in the middle of the frame.
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It's no wonder, then, that the operations of the enclave, which prosecutors likened to that of a "horror movie," serve as the inspiration for this made-for-TV film.
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Hence the sizable donation necessary to change an august Manhattan performance space into "Axelrod Hall" last season — the dubious permanence of which I likened to Enron Field in Houston.
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He has been likened to Kalief Browder, the teenager who committed suicide after being held for three years at Rikers on a robbery charge before the case was dismissed.
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In one case, she signed a treatment contract that required her to provide a urine sample whenever the clinic requested one, an experience she likened to being a prisoner.
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Legislation currently before Parliament would make it easier for the authorities to strip dissidents of their citizenship, which one former member of Parliament has likened to Nazi-era laws.
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The service has also greenlit a series exploring the origin story of Snapchat and its co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel that's being likened to Aaron Sorkin's The Social Network.
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They're often likened to neural pathways in the human brain, but that's not quite it, either, and the comparison is lost on anyone who didn't pay attention in science class.
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But in a market economy there is no grand plan, just the individual decisions of thousands of firms competing in a spontaneous process, which Joseph Schumpeter likened to a gale.
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After the wedding, Pippa Middleton was immediately designated the next most eligible bachelorette in the U.K. while Eugenie and Beatrice were likened to Cinderella's evil and ugly step-sisters. Literally.
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Still, it's hard to imagine how the company will benefit from its ad being likened to Dorothea Lange's iconic image of destitute poverty during the Great Depression, "Migrant Mother" (27).
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Duterte's crackdown on drugs, core to a colorful election campaign likened to that of U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump, has claimed more than 3,800 lives since his June 30 inauguration.
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Singapore has prohibited the fruit in its subway system, and many hotels ban durians because of the notorious smell -- which some critics have likened to rotten food or dirty socks.
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" Widely regarded as one of the sharpest script-polishers in Hollywood, Mr. Penhall has had his share of unsatisfying artistic encounters in an industry he likened to "a sausage factory.
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The CFDA Awards, which is often likened to the Oscars for the fashion set, might still a month and a half away, but the 2017 nominees have already been revealed.
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European leaders and officials had long said they would not discuss trade arrangements under threat of action from Trump, which some likened to negotiating with a gun to the head.
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Its plants sink deep roots into the ground, often likened to an upside down forest, forming a major carbon sink whose preservation is vital to the fight against global warming.
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The image in the altered fresco, "Ecce Homo" ("Behold the Man"), was likened to a monkey or a hedgehog, and it was mocked in memes widely shared on social media.
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Slightly less noxious but vastly more pervasive, the smell of the brown marmorated stinkbug is often likened to that of cilantro, chiefly because the same chemical is present in both.
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FLAT TAX: The Hill's Naomi Jagoda reports: Ben Carson has released his plan for a flat tax, which he has in the past likened to the Biblical practice of tithing.
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With a vented case that calls to mind a kitchen tool, it's a homage to and advancement of the Power Mac G5 that fans affectionately likened to a cheese grater.
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PIPPA MIDDLETON'S MODEST ROYAL WEDDING DRESS LIKENED TO ARIZONA GREEN TEA As she carried the Duchess of Cambridge's wedding dress train into the cathedral, her curvy bottom received global attention.
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Recent bloodshed in mainly poor black and colored mixed-race areas was likened to a "war zone" by a provincial official this week, with some 2,000 people killed since January.
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The sauce's taste has been likened to "corn syrup with maybe a tiny bit of Worcestershire thrown in" and "old cigarette butts," though some consumers have admittedly been more charitable.
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The US and Turkey have since signed an agreement to a ceasefire in the region, which some Republicans have likened to a "surrender" due to the eviction of Kurdish groups.
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Governments and humanitarian groups face a double cataclysm: the damage inflicted by the cyclone itself, which destroyed innumerable homes, and the severe flooding afterward, likened to a rising inland ocean.
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These days, the episode looms so large that it has been likened to the storming of the Bastille; we furiously debate who threw the first fist, or brick, or bottle.
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Haley Ebert, who was in a window seat above the right wing, said she had raised her window shade after hearing a "huge bang" that she likened to a gunshot.
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It transformed Mr. Khullar, a virtuoso improvisor whose looks have been likened to Elvis, into a household name in Quebec, garnering him coveted comedy awards and making him a millionaire.
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The stretch of Roosevelt Avenue that extends through Corona, Jackson Heights and Woodside in Queens has been likened to Times Square of yesteryear, when it was an epicenter of vice.
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But they hope her recent Twitter swipes at GOP Senators Bob Corker and Jeff Flake — whom she likened to a "middle school girl" — could kill her chances of a nomination.
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It has been identified as a strain of coronavirus — infecting the nose, throat, or sinuses — and likened to severe acute respiratory syndrome, which infected large parts of Asia in 2003.
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The introduction of an outsider (Richard Schiff), a hapless moneyman who's disparagingly likened to an animal by a villain, is especially unfortunate because it flirts with an anti-Semitic stereotype.
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Too often, Balenciaga is likened to an architect or sculptor, when in fact he was an intensely proper anatomist with a deep regard for the frailty of the human form.
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What follows is best likened to a disturbing Home Alone sequence, as the bumbling Cam piles consequence atop consequence in his efforts to get away with this ill-conceived plot.
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It signals that they are likened to the racial-gendered stereotypes of the terrorist, the gang member, and thug, which then permits continued state-sanctioned disavowal and removal of their presence.
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Yet these aren't one-off affairs: Silva reported that although the hookups are "unromantic," they are not emotionless, and many men maintained regular sexual partners whom they likened to sexual friends.
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A data firm that worked on Trump's 2016 campaign recently exposed nearly 200 million voter records online, which the Center for Democracy and Technology likened to a leak of toxic waste.
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But the streaming service, which has been likened to Netflix and Hulu, sets itself apart from those platforms by allowing users to upload their own content and grow their own audiences.
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While contemporaries like Elvis and Ricky Nelson donned increasingly flamboyant costumes, Orbison stuck to a uniform many likened to that of an insurance salesman pitching you a great deal on dying.
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It comes with a few perks beyond personalized treatment, like a specialized merch option which he likened to the model Chicago Public Media uses that rewards contributors for loyalty over time.
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This intervention model can be likened to a grassroots campaign in which the seed students took the lead and customized the intervention to address the problems they noted at their school.
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The situation is being likened to the end of the Vietnam conflict, where the U.S. sought "peace with honor" while surrendering in defeat —resulting in a crumbled agreement without America's enforcement.
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The pre-referendum campaign produced new spats with EU members Germany and the Netherlands, whose authorities Erdogan likened to Nazis when they had prevented Turkish politicians from campaigning in their countries.
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According to the directors, the video "reflects the departure and finality of a past relationship," which the band have likened to the sensation of "a digestive crumbled in a bottomless brew".
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And scross cultures, scissoring has been euphemistically likened to "making tortillas" (Latin America), "gimlets" (France), a "game of flats" (based on an 18th-century British card game), and "polishing mirrors" (China).
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Then, on Tuesday, Ms. Trump donned a green brocade Erdem tea-length dress with pink and yellow flowers that some commentators likened to traditional Indian anarkali style, complete with keyhole neckline.
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For example, in the moments surrounding her win at the French Open in June 20093, Williams was compared to an animal, likened to a man, and deemed frightening and horrifyingly unattractive.
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The Valley's farms feed the country, but it's an unsettling reality that the low-income farmworkers who cultivate the crops live in conditions that have been likened to the developing world.
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It is next to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and features a theater inside a spherical building designed by Renzo Piano that has been likened to the Death Star.
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" The exhibition will also feature a 25-minute video installation produced this year and commissioned by the Berlin Biennial, which Ms. Leigh likened to an episode of the television show "M.
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The latest coronavirus outbreak has often been likened to the SARS epidemic in 2003, which hit mainland China, Hong Kong, and Singapore particularly hard, and plunged their respective economies into recession.
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This month Beijing replaced its top man in the former British colony with an official known for enforcing party discipline in coal-rich Shanxi, where corruption was once likened to cancer.
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But internally, the EU has been unable to agree on relocation, something one senior EU diplomat likened to "fighting trench warfare" that has badly undermined member states' trust in each other.
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Training for the job is likened to that of a winemaker, since selecting the dough relies on using the senses of smell and touch to know when the mix is ready.
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Likened to a giant wok, the telescope, located in Guizhou Province, is used by astronomers to chart the shape of the universe and even listen for potential signs of alien life.
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Likened to a sommelier, the Flower Host — the person serving weed — explains the various products, suggests food and flower pairings, and shows you how to use the paraphernalia available to rent.
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Google says January is typhoon season and rainy season and mosquito season and mosquitoes carry dengue fever, the pain of which has been likened to sitting through the new Scorsese movie.
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The group had launched a monthly subscription service in June they likened to a "wine of the month club," offering to people who paid regular leaks of hacking tools and documents.
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A local teacher's restoration of a 16th-century polychromed equestrian statue of Saint George in the Spanish town of Estella was likened to a children's toy and Tintin on social media.
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For example, in the moments surrounding her win at the French Open in June 22014, Williams was compared to an animal, likened to a man, and deemed frightening and horrifyingly unattractive.
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I had been told that everyone would need to get off the bus and go through the labyrinthine pedestrian checkpoint, that many have likened to a cattle pen or a "prison."
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With a reputation as a straight-talker, he has been likened to French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau by colleagues excited at the prospect of a generational shift.
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The "legacy" part of the show, especially, could be likened to "devotional art" says Ms Ahlberg Yohe, who emphasises the painstaking and time-consuming effort involved, especially in the finishing of items.
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Likened to a "silver fox" by China's state media and online admirers, due to his looks and his diplomatic wiles, Wang is regarded as suave and charming, but tough, by foreign diplomats.
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Designed by the architect Renzo Piano, it will utilize the historic May Company Building and a newly constructed, adjoining spherical structure that has been likened to the Death Star from Star Wars.
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More than 700,000 mostly Muslim Rohingya have escaped Buddhist-majority Myanmar since last August, when attacks by Muslim insurgents triggered a military offensive that the United Nations has likened to ethnic cleansing.
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The Trump administration wants to overhaul the longstanding food stamp program, replacing it with a box of canned goods that it has likened to Blue Apron—a high-end meal kit service.
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Twitter is the Western tech company that it is most commonly likened to but, unlike its San Francisco-based peer, Weibo has shown an ability to monetize its userbase of 340 million.
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He has been likened to the late ballet legend Rudolf Nureyev and earned numerous accolades in his career, including an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance at Britain's top theater honors.
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The first was due to her experiences at a "boarding school for summer camp when I was a teenager," a place she likened to an island on its own in the world.
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Nearly 300,000 of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims have been driven from their homes by an indiscriminate military campaign of mass killings, rapes, and arson that the United Nations has likened to ethnic cleansing.
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Gentrification in Harlem might well be likened to the progress of the British Raj, where the most that "civilizing" interlopers could muster was a patronizing interest in token elements of local culture.
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It has been likened to a Hubble Telescope for financial markets and will be a central database for all stock and options "message traffic", meaning every trade order, execution, modification and cancellation.
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CAT has been likened to a Hubble Telescope for financial markets and will be a central database for all stock and options "message traffic," meaning every trade order, execution, modification and cancellation.
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Equal parts shudder inducing and idiotic, ABC's new dating game The Proposal isn't being likened to The Bachelor franchise nearly as much as it is being compared to Netflix's nightmarish Black Mirror.
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Severus is likened to "a new C.E.O., brought in to effect a restructuring," while the Colosseum was "as revolutionary as Facebook or Twitter," a simile no less baffling than it is anachronistic.
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Often likened to the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, the Boao Forum was expected to gather over 2,000 political and business leaders from around the world in late March.
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The summit meeting had been expected to at least make definitive progress toward a withdrawal agreement — often likened to a divorce settlement — and give guidelines for Britain's future relationship with the bloc.
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The coronavirus has been likened to climate change, but since the response to global warming has been poor to date, that comparison offers more insight into what hasn't worked than what has.
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China reported six deaths from the virus, which is being likened to the deadly 73/2003 spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), just ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday.
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Kushner recognized his digital savvy during the 2016 campaign, quietly elevating the Trump campaign digital director to a role that many on the campaign likened to that of a deputy campaign manager.
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There's also yet another new film simulation, Bleached Bypass, which "creates a beautiful desaturated, high-contrast look" that Fujifilm likened to a less intense version of the aesthetic from the movie 33.
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According to lawmakers, the gathering included a recitation of lyrics from "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," a Gordon Lightfoot song about a sinking ship, which was likened to the Senate's stumble.
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With its focus on the quirks and barely concealed anxieties of the privileged class, Mr. Gurney's work was often likened to that of the novelist John Cheever and the playwright Philip Barry.
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Known for its dynamic extremes, ranging from "pppp" to "ffff" — the quietest to the loudest — with little in between, her works have been admiringly likened to black holes, lasers and radiation burns.
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But I know that the woman in question, a former Director of Partnerships for a worldwide organisation, was once likened to 'one of our mistresses' by an MC at an investors meeting.
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In the mime-as-metaphor symbolism of this tautly constructed, demanding fable, Dennis's predicament is likened to the feeling of being cut off from the rest of the world by an invisible wall.
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The Danish and the Alban Berg are among dozens of quartets to have performed or recorded the cycle, which has been likened to Shakespeare's plays, Rembrandt's portraits, the New Testament, the Bible itself.
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As Hollywood moved to distance itself from Weinstein, Streep said she had been appalled by the claims made against the film studio executive she once likened to "God" in a 2012 awards speech.
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Mr Liu has been compared to the British futurist Arthur C. Clarke, says Mingwei Song of Wellesley College in Boston; Mr Han, meanwhile, is sometimes likened to Philip K. Dick, an American dystopian.
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As the spacecraft dives through Comet 67P's hazy coma, it'll use its mass spectrometer to sniff out a variety of molecules within the gas, which early scientific reports have likened to cat piss.
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The app, Study the Great Nation, was developed by the public opinion research division of China's Central Propaganda Department and tech company Alibaba, and it's being likened to Chairman Mao's Little Red Book.
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In the animation, Marx is likened to the jolly, white-bearded Santa Claus, whose modern image, as Kautz pointed out to Hyperallergic during a walk through the show, was developed by Coca-Cola.
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The CAT has been likened to a Hubble Telescope for financial markets and will be a central database for all stock and options "message traffic," meaning every trade order, execution, modification and cancellation.
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Anyone with a vested interest of making the most of their muscles is going to benefit from getting a good muscle pump—a state of affairs Arnold Schwarzenegger once likened to an orgasm.
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Then there is suadero, a cut of beef often likened to brisket but closer to the udder, almost as fatty as pork belly and, when braised just shy of eternity, just as yielding.
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For most of the popular ad blocking services, that means charging certain high-traffic platforms like Google and Microsoft for the privilege of being whitelisted — a practice trade groups have likened to extortion.
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In a nearby painting, "Portrait of Beverly," that watermelon is the centerpiece, its fleshy interior detailed in a row of pinks and reds that Mr. Salle likened to a drawer full of socks.
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Steele's reporting, which his associates have likened to raw, unverified intelligence findings, alleged that Page had plotted in 2016 with Russia's top oil executive to influence U.S. foreign policy for a huge profit.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday reported the first U.S. case of the mysterious virus, which many have likened to the 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS.
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That's reportedly led ad buyers to lump them in with connected-TV ad buys as "generic inventory sources" that one ad buyer likened to "store-brand stuff" at a grocery story, per Digiday.
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Next to the La Brea Tar Pits, it has been likened to a blob, a smoky gray, elevated amoeba-like swirl of galleries resting on eight pillars that would cross over Wilshire Boulevard.
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Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who remain inside Myanmar are mostly denied citizenship and live in conditions Amnesty International has likened to apartheid, confined to camps and villages and unable to travel freely.
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A spokesperson for the Gallery told Hyperallergic: It is important to state that this case should not be likened to the 'gig economy' debate…In fact, the National Gallery situation is exactly the opposite.
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Apple is being likened to a vigilante privacy regulator overseeing Facebook and Google by The Verge's Casey Newton and The New York Times' Kevin Roose, perhaps with too much power, given they're all competitors.
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He started infrequently writing about the people he met and places he traveled along the campaign trail in a lyrical, 20th century voice likened to that of Jack Kerouac or even Karl Ove Knausgård.
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The former military captain has been likened to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, as he has pledged to purge the country of corruption and crack down on crime — even if that means ignoring democratic norms.
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That's why the racing industry's influence on the wider automotive industry has long been likened to the influence, say, that the demands of the NASA programme had on Silicon Valley in its earlier days.
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Monaco's young striker, a mere 18 years of age, has made 44 professional appearances all told, and yet he is already being likened to one of the most talented footballers France has ever seen.
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The Carnegie Hall concert represents the New York premiere of Mr. Norman's percussion concerto "Switch," a zany, high-energy work that the soloist, Colin Currie, has likened to being trapped in a pinball machine.
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If Nintendo is easily likened to Apple for its autocratic insistence on groundbreaking innovation, it is also like Xerox in that it has failed to take advantage of ideas as valuable as the mouse.
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A video shared by Trump of his visit to the El Paso hospital has been likened to a campaign ad, with images of Trump being photographed with smiling hospital workers to a rousing soundtrack.
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Zika has been likened to rubella because both cause mild symptoms in adults but maim or kill fetuses, and the new report's authors compared their findings to the devastating American rubella outbreak of 1964.
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And apparently not even a lamb dressed as mutton, but fast approaching mutton dressing as jerky — if we accept that the way women dress can be likened to the life stages of a sheep.
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A curious message hung over Detroit during the weekend of 2016's Movement festival—an annual event, born in 2000 as Detroit Electronic Music Festival, that's often likened to "techno Christmas" by devout attendees.
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The comparison continued in 2014, when a picture of Xi posing next to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at an international conference was likened to an image of Pooh with his donkey friend Eeyore.
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Police Chief James Cervera described a chaotic scene as officers entered the building and pursued the assailant through a tightly packed warren of offices that the chief likened to a maze or a honeycomb.
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LONDON — Britain's shambolic efforts to leave the European Union have sometimes been likened to the Suez crisis in 1956, when a botched military intervention in Egypt underscored the limitations of post-imperial British power.
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While the mainland Chinese A-shares market has been likened to a casino for years, the Shanghai Composite has kept its fluctuations close to the 3,000 level for much of the last several months.
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Often likened to Anne Frank, the Jewish artist was shaped by the Nazis' rise to power and by a suppressed family history of suicide, before her life was cut short at Auschwitz in 19433.
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At one point last month, the air quality in the Seattle region was likened to that of Beijing at its worst, a threat to the old and the young, and those with respiratory problems.
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Despite warnings from employees that Theranos wasn't ready to go live on human subjects — its devices were likened to an eighth-grade science project — Holmes was unwilling to disappoint investors or her commercial partners.
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"That's good stuff" he said, and the two of them—lanky, conspicuously cool guys in late middle age—slurped away as three cameras, which Bourdain had once likened to "drunken hummingbirds," hovered around them.
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The incident infuriated the pastor, who attacked Yovanovitch on Twitter for promoting LGBTQ rights and allowing the US embassy's Facebook banner photo to display a rainbow flag, which he likened to a "traitorous" act.
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Founded in 2100, Meituan which used to be likened to U.S. discounting platform Groupon, in 2015 completed a $15 billion merger with its then main rival Dianping, akin to U.S. online review firm Yelp.
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Civil rights groups unsuccessfully sued him last year over his decision to delay implementation of an Obama-era anti-discrimination rule, which Carson had previously likened to "social engineering" in a 2015 op-ed.
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For her quiet, measured observations, and for her fiercely private personal mien (she gave many readings but few interviews, saying she wanted her work to speak for itself), she was likened to Emily Dickinson.
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This mystery drama, about a missing plane whose passengers discover supernatural powers when they return to Earth, has been likened to "Lost" and "The 4400," but it has failed to leave a lasting impression.
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Some of Trump's advisers say the plotting -- which one likened to producing a television show, much like Trump did before he became president -- was a welcome distraction from what is undoubtedly a low moment.
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His case inside the intelligence community has been likened to that of Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, a Somali terrorist who was captured in 2010 and brought back to New York, where he was successfully prosecuted.
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Furthermore, in works by Mendieta, Sara Modiano, and Graciela Gutiérrez Marx, the rape of the female body is likened to capitalism's exploitation of the Earth's resources; ecological conservation becomes an essential space of liberation.
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Kano in NOISEY London Tonight, on the season finale of NOISEY, we're in London covering Grime, an energetic DIY music and lifestyle likened to hip-hop but descended from the dance music, UK garage.
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"When we started Flipkart, we were really focusing on books, just one category and focusing on getting the customer experience right for our books," said Bansal, whose business model has frequently been likened to Amazon's.
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Desperate officials pleaded with President Donald Trump to send federal assistance Monday after at least 20 people were killed by storms and tornadoes that caused devastation authorities likened to the impact of a nuclear blast.
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What Benjamin said contained the "aura" — the mark of individuality and specialness only an original, handmade work can imbue — Bolton likened to haute couture, whilst assembly-line fashion (as reproductions of art) lacks that aura.
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" From Capitol Hill to San Francisco's Castro district, Comey's appearance attracted television "watch parties" beckoning politics buffs to taverns, restaurants and living rooms to view an event some likened to the "Super Bowl of Washington.
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He had wanted to stage "Europa Bombardata" in an area of the church that had been used as a pottery workshop during the war; the setting was to be likened to the furnaces of Buchenwald.
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Now, the Lion actress is poking fun at her viral moment on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, after host Ellen DeGeneres played a looping clip of the clapping technique that has been likened to a seal.
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It's a strategy, Ho noted, that many public health experts have likened to tobacco companies setting up shop in low-income countries after losing their battle to keep people smoking in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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Moelis claimed its recapitalisation plan would allow the government to realise between $75bn and $100bn in cash by exercising warrants, a structure it likened to the post-crisis resolution of the bailed-out insurer AIG.
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Though the appeal to racers of a car that in advertising campaigns was likened to a tortoise for its slowness and low fuel consumption is not immediately obvious, competitors said the 2CV had unique characteristics.
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And more and more he looks to the past and brings it forward, revisiting, reusing and transforming motives from his own art, a pattern he likened to a jazz musician's improvisations on favorite, unforgettable tunes.
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With images of exhausted firefighters, angry bystanders and despairing residents still flooding in, the events unfolding were likened to the Hillsborough disaster on social media, in newspapers and by opposition politicians time and time again.
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Candy speculators and fans of Necco Wafers are hoarding the 171-year-old sweet that's been likened to chalk, in the event that Necco products are discontinued forever in the next month and a half.
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And more and more he looks to the past and brings it forward, revisiting, reusing and transforming motifs from his own art, a pattern he likened to a jazz musician's improvisations on favorite, unforgettable tunes.
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Mr. Percoco, whom Mr. Cuomo once likened to a member of his family, has been accused of taking more than $300,000 in bribes from an energy company and a developer seeking deals with the state.
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"I never saw so few international buyers," said Magnus Resch, the founder of Magnus, an app likened to Shazam for the art world, who is based in New York but has an apartment in Berlin.
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A veritable American castle, often likened to America's Versailles, it was built by George Washington Vanderbilt between 1889 and 1895, and is the US' largest privately-owned house, with 250 rooms (43 alone are bathrooms).
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The roughly $1.1 billion bright and transparent edifice, designed by HKS architects, features a mostly clear, steep roof and has been likened to a Nordic long house, a Viking warship and an ice shard formation.
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Often likened to "Dallas," another Reagan-era television drama about rich and dysfunctional clans, "Dynasty" revolved around the Carrington patriarch, played by John Forsythe, his wife (Linda Evans) and his estranged ex-wife (Joan Collins).
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" It is no secret he harbors personal animus toward McCabe, whom he views as a central figure in special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian election meddling, which he has likened to a "witch hunt.
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The concept of sex addiction gained traction in the 1980s, when Patrick Carnes published "Out of the Shadows," one of the first books to identify compulsive sexual behavior, a problem he likened to an addiction.
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Gritty has frequently been likened to a Muppet, a comparison that Allen finds astute, as he drew a lot of inspiration from Jim Henson's early Muppet creations and work for the 29 film The Dark Crystal.
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The tallest building will be 70 stories, and the mixed-use complex will have 1,838 rental apartments and 36,000 square feet of retail, including a food market that Mr. Kushner likened to Chelsea Market in Manhattan.
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"It's very reminiscent of how I started out," he explained to reporters at Hockenheim, whose present layout has been likened to a glorified go-kart track by those who miss the bygone blast through the forest.
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And it's exactly what it sounds like: A traditional liquid formula, except it eschews traditional applicators in favor of a small rolling wheel that is best likened to the same tool used to slice a pizza.
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Flynn is believed to have helped fuel Trump's skepticism about the intelligence community, which he likened to Nazis and publicly mocked for concluding that Russia had tried to interfere in the elections to ensure Trump's victory.
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Prominent investor George Soros was recently likened to a "crocodile" that had declared "war" on China for suggesting while at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that China's economy was headed for a hard landing.
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Indonesian billionaire Hary Tanoesoedibjo, one of Trump's overseas business partners, who has been likened to the Republican in various ways, told CNBC on Thursday he may run for the top job in Southeast Asia's largest economy.
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"The interesting thing about this argument is that a private host, Twitter, is being likened to a public space," said Morgan Weiland, an attorney and scholar at Stanford University Law School's Center for Internet and Society.
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The lives of great artists and thinkers and statesmen are like the lives of the great extinct species, the tyrannosaurs and stegosaurs, while the lives of the obscure can be likened to extinct species of beetles.
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André Rehbein Sathler, an economist who works for the lower house, said Ms. Rousseff's administration broke the law by failing to reimburse the banks for these expenditures, a move he likened to printing money with abandon.
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This is because the pebbled surface, which can be likened to the peel of an orange in terms of texture, combines with the stone's concave bottom to create a micro-layer of water and reduce friction.
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This process can be likened to the manufacturing of celebrity identities, where parents can potentially shape the public persona of their child in any way they want: Child genius, disobedient, fashionista, fussy eater and so on.
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Ms. Goldstein noted that the rule only applied to residential buildings in certain zoning districts, and that unenclosed structural voids, expanses of outdoor space that some have likened to stilts for condos, would not be affected.
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In contrast, the U.K. is advising those with a high temperature or a cough to stay at home and not be tested, which Sridhar likened to advice that is given for people who have the flu.
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China was asked to foreswear its World Trade Organization rights to challenge U.S. trade protection, a request that commentators in China likened to the "unequal treaties" imposed on China by imperialist powers in the 6900th century.
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That would allow for much more time to build a new relationship with the European Union and would lessen the chances of a disorderly departure from the bloc — often likened to walking off a cliff edge.
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Founded in 3003, Meituan which used to be likened to U.S. discounting platform Groupon Inc, in 2300 completed a $2200 billion merger with its then main rival Dianping, akin to U.S. online review firm Yelp Inc.
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The skins and stems, which generally float to the top of the grape juice to form a cap, are pushed down by a perforated steel sheet, which Mr. Licklider likened to a French-press coffee maker.
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Why it matters: Some of the attacks on Thunberg following her UN speech appeared to target her because she has Asperger's, which is on the autism spectrum and which she has likened to having a superpower.
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But the next major revamp that Big Fashion gave the ugly sandal didn't come until Céline's "furkenstock" moment in 2012, which the New Yorker likened to Oppenheim's gazelle fur-covered teacup ("witty, provocative, and slightly silly").
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The attack has been likened to the assassination of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, a critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who died in London in 2006 after drinking green tea laced with radioactive polonium-210.
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The control she exercises over her image could be likened to that of an Instagramming celeb, but her photographs aren't necessarily critical; they are inquisitive (it takes her about four months to create one silicone mask).
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese province whose corruption problem was once likened to cancer has turned over a new leaf, like the spring rain blowing away smog, its top official wrote in the country's leading newspaper on Thursday.
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It also said the game contained other elements prohibited by Islamic law, including "polytheism against God by multiplying the number of deities, and gambling, which God has forbidden in the Quran and likened to wine and idols".
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Labour's anti-Semitism saga flared again this week after it emerged that Jeremy Corbyn, the party's leader, hosted an event in 2010 at which the actions of the Israeli government were likened to those of the Nazis.
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On top of that, Respawn plans to make money on the free-to-play title entirely through microtransactions, including sales of cosmetic items and loot boxes, the latter being a controversial in-game purchase likened to gambling.
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A Facebook spokesperson said in an emailed statement that the company had "heard that some people are seeing posts or messages about accounts being cloned on Facebook," messages that they likened to a chain letter or email.
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On Monday, well-known investor Warren Buffett recently revealed he has purchased stock in airlines, a move that United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz likened to a "Good Housekeeping seal of approval" for the industry and his company.
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The pain, he wrote, was "likened to a knife being driven in through a point between the outer canthus of the eye and the hair line," far more intense and debilitating than even the most serious migraine.
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They were searching an area where the ocean was 1,400 feet deep, and their main search tool was a 14-foot-long autonomous underwater vehicle weighing thousands of pounds that Mr. Taylor likened to an underwater drone.
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" The watches' quirky central dials are decorated with paisley teardrops, floral patterns and diamond shapes to create contrast, something that Mr. Selmoni likened to matching a suit and a tie "because the rhythm of the patterns work.
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His mellifluous voice, likened to a down comforter or "a slow drip of Midwestern molasses," feels warmly familiar to any public radio listener who has heard him sing "Tishomingo Blues," which opens his show each Saturday evening.
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The big plunge in bitcoin's price has has drawn comparisons with the Nasdaq's sharp fall in 2000 and the failure of many cryptocurrencies has been likened to some of the companies that crashed during the dotcom boom.
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LONDON — It has been billed as "the world's tallest moving observation tower," a futuristic 531-foot-high structure that will give visitors an experience that one of its creators likened to floating in a hot-air balloon.
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The entire under-$30 line is supposedly great, but this $28 vitamin C serum (which people have likened to the multi-award-winning $166 C E Ferulic Serum) is the real showstopper — and it keeps selling out.
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Ms. Graham's eyes welled up, she later recalled, as Mr. Brakeley spoke to her generous spirit and beautiful nature, and she compared him to her deceased father, whom she likened to a towering redwood, during their vows.
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This description might sound like new age music, but instead of the odyssic compositions of Vangelis and Enya, Woo's music has been likened to Cluster, Brian Eno, Durutti Column, Sun Araw, Robert Ashley, and early Animal Collective.
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Perhaps not coincidentally, Mr. Trump has lately started asking his supporters to raise their right hands and pledge their loyalty to him, creating tableaus that critics have likened to the salutes of followers of Hitler and Mussolini.
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He gave the example of the company's 2017 acquisition of Maintenance Supply HQ, a move he likened to Home Depot's 2015 acquisition of Interline Brands, which helped it cross-sell to customers who previously flocked to Interline.
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At the cult's peak in the 1980s, there were thousands of Rajneeshees around the world who worshipped their guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (later known as Osho), a white-bearded Indian man they likened to a rock star.
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Instead, it was likened to a poorly received mea culpa from BP that showed its unpopular chief executive pledging to clean up an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico over a soundtrack of squawking sea gulls.
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In Delaware, the southern portions of the state are often likened to the lands of the Old South; and at the same time, many northern white liberals had fled Wilmington and shared Mr. Biden's opposition to busing.
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Policies that separated migrant children from their parents, forced asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for their day in court and detained teenagers in camps likened to juvenile prisons have done little to stem the immigration flow.
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Weeks earlier, the internet had a mini-meltdown over the opera gloves Amal Clooney wore to the Golden Globes; they were likened to accouterments better suited for a prom, a debutante ball or, incredibly, a pornography scene.
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His livid criticism of that campaign, which he likened to a "medieval call to a crusade," presaged what happened next: He took back power in 2012, and set about undoing every element of Mr. Medvedev's little thaw.
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" Both Jeff and Kay in the Philadelphia suburbs and Martina Mirandola Mullen in New York noted a strange aftertaste in the Ravines, which Ms. Mullen likened to "my grandma's super humid lawn in Pennsylvania, covered in mushrooms.
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The new security facility, which Mr. Litterst likened to a security checkpoint at an airport with X-ray bag screeners and a magnetometer, replaces a temporary facility that had been set up at the monument since 28.
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Republicans have seized on the claim that the FBI relied on a dossier of intelligence reports compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele to gain court approval for the surveillance, which the president has likened to spying.
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A multimillionaire who one acquaintance affectionately likened to a "beat-up Toyota Camry" for his unpretentious demeanor, Egerman earned his money as a health care technology entrepreneur, co-founding one company that eventually sold for $1.2 billion.
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Summers were spent at the 107-room Rockefeller "cottage" in Seal Harbor, Me., and weekends at Kykuit, the family's country compound north of New York City in Tarrytown, N.Y. The estate was likened to a feudal fief.
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PARIS — A French farmer who smuggled African migrants to safety, defying the authorities in an effort that his supporters likened to the Underground Railroad, was essentially given a slap on the wrist by a court on Friday.
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Later that day, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, in a meltdown for the ages in what observers likened to a "hostage video,"chastised the press and made numerous misstatements leaving many to observe that Spicer intentionally lied.
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K-pop has often been likened to a "factory" by the media — a "machine" that pumps out bands on a conveyor belt and hands them hollow, algorithmic pop songs to lip-sync as they move in perfect synchronization.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union welcomed a snap British election that one of its leaders likened to a Hitchcock plot twist, but there was conspicuously little talk in Brussels of the vote halting Britain's exit from the bloc.
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The company, sometimes likened to U.S. photo agency Getty Images which it also partners with, apologised in a post on its official Weibo account, saying the incident revealed its weak management and that it was cooperating with authorities.
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" She also revealed that due to the film's practical effects, she actually got to fly while making the film, which she likened to choreography and described as "one of the greatest joys I've ever experienced as an actor.
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The band spent a week working out the score in a room together, then invited the actor/singers in, along with Ms. Settle and the choreographer David Neumann — a process Mr. Beller likened to adding new band members.
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The airport, one of the world's busiest, was returning to normal but under tight security after thousands of protesters had jammed its halls on Monday and Tuesday nights, part of a protest movement Beijing has likened to terrorism.
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Haunted by self-loathing and a sense of his own ugliness — he is repeatedly likened to a boar or rooting hog — he found refuge in a feeling of entitlement, blustering overconfidence, misogyny and a merciless penchant for bullying.
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Trump seemed to relish in the Patriots' win earlier this year, which he likened to his victory over Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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Take the lesser-known plainfin midshipman, which gets its name from the spectacular pattern of silver light-emitting organs called photophores that run the length of its belly and are likened to the buttons of a naval uniform.
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Improvising during a training session on hills, Nolting developed a technique that she calls a "hop crutch" — keeping her crutches falling at a proper momentum while maintaining a steady cadence, in a rhythm she likened to controlled falling.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee this week, hundreds of youngsters will compete in a uniquely American contest that has been likened to an intellectual extreme sport, involving one of the world's most tricky languages.
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Ironically, NATO also encourages fecklessness among its members in ways that can be likened to what financiers call the "moral hazard" phenomenon, in which excessive insurance, offered for an ostensibly good purpose, promotes risky behavior by those insured.
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That harebrained heist, which Vanity Fair likened to "Ocean's 11" meets "Harold & Kumar," is retold in "American Animals," Bart Layton's docu-thriller, now showing in New York and Los Angeles before a national rollout on Friday, June 8.
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There were the inevitable thrill seekers who went to the infected areas out of curiosity, becoming new victims, which Fefferman has likened to journalists traveling to war zones who put themselves in harm's way to get a story.
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As an fMRI device tracked blood flow in their brains, the students watched a series of video clips of varying lengths, an experience that Dr. Parkinson likened to channel surfing with somebody else in control of the remote.
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Yandex, which has been likened to the Russian Google, already runs a robo-taxi service in a small Russian city with five Yandex cars dropping off riders (free for now) with a safety operator in the passenger seat.
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The death toll from coronavirus, which is being likened to the 2002/2003 spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), rose to nine, but many markets held firm as Chinese authorities ramped up efforts to control the outbreak.
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In order to soothe French anxieties in particular, the German government agreed to give up its beloved, powerful Deutschmark, a currency President François Mitterrand of France had likened to a German "nuclear force," in favor of the euro.
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Founded in 220 by Wang Xing, Meituan which has been likened to U.S. discounting platform Groupon Inc, completed a $15 billion merger in 2015 with its then main rival Dianping, akin to U.S. online review firm Yelp Inc.
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Among the highlights are a collaborative poetry dance between choreographer Molissa Fenley and poet Bob Holman, with a giant painting by Roy Fowler, and dance theater artist Ara Fitzgerald's performance as P.T. Barnum, who's likened to Donald Trump.
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Mahmud, who said he later got death threats, was hailed as an antifascist hero — and likened to "egg boy," the Australian teen who became an international star after he smashed an egg on a far-right politician's head.
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Starbucks made a similar announcement, saying it would transition to a new lid for cold drinks that many have likened to an "adult sippy cup" that eventually will mean eliminating more than 1 billion plastic straws per year.
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Beadnose nosed out a larger Alaska brown bear, a male called 747 – and likened to a jumbo jet – in online votes collected by staff at Katmai National Park and Preserve during a wildly popular event called Fat Bear Week.
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Van Jones, a former White House adviser to President Barack Obama, accused Donald Trump of hypocrisy for repeatedly condemning terrorists while refusing to denounce an endorsement from David Duke, a KKK leader that Jones likened to a domestic terrorist.
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O), often likened to U.S. streaming giant Netflix, has snapped up domestic game maker Skymoons in a deal that could be worth nearly 2 billion yuan ($298.59 million) as it looks to broaden its offerings following a U.S. listing.
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Meanwhile: Guthrie took issue with an anonymous former Amazon executive quoted in an otherwise flattering Bloomberg BusinessWeek cover story on Microsoft who said Azure was the Minnesota Twins compared to AWS, which was likened to the New York Yankees.
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The photo has already been likened to the iconic picture of former President Barack Obama huddled with his national security team in the White House Situation Room as they monitor via live video the killing of Osama bin Laden.
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The former special counsel and former FBI director defended not subpoenaing the President because of the prolonged process to fight over it -- a move Dean, who is a CNN contributor, likened to not pushing for the infamous Nixon tapes.
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" Indeed, the presence of light throughout the house is even that much more pronounced in the unapologetically bare, bold new space, which Chavez likened to a "massive life sculpture for studying the passage of light between sunrise and sunset.
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When Marcus first arrived at Inkkas' retail outpost in 2015, he was struck by two glaring flaws: the bizarre setup, which he likened to a "trading floor of some stock exchanges behind some shoes," and the lack of inventory.
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Letter from Europe LONDON — For travelers returning to London from distant places struggling for bare-bones survival, the portals of passport control sometimes resemble what a British writer likened to the looking glass in Lewis Carroll's fable of Alice.
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A minute later, Rothenberg, who first ran into trouble owing to profligate spending, adds that he plans to host a Founder Field Day — a startup party likened to "a scene lifted from HBO's Silicon Valley" — in the near future.
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The comments may fuel speculation that Moscow is seeking a prisoner exchange involving Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine arrested and held in Russia on spying charges that he denies and that he has likened to a political kidnap.
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He quite enjoyed being likened to Samuel Johnson, the great 21961th-century critic, essayist, lexicographer and man about London, who, like Professor Bloom ("a Yiddisher Dr. Johnson" was one appellation), was rotund, erudite and often caustic in his opinions.
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Likened to political campaigns yet infinitely less consequential, complicated or, it can now be unequivocally said, nasty, awards campaigns are behind virtually all of the movies and actors being talked about for big prizes this and most every season.
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Some Iranian officials have called the killing of General Suleimani — whose role in Iran has been likened to that of an American vice president, chairman of the Joint Chiefs and C.I.A. director rolled into one — an act of war.
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 did a huge amount to break up the one-party states that prevailed in most Southern states after the end of Reconstruction, states which some scholars have likened to single-party dictatorships abroad.
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The Catholic Church is likened to a bird of prey, murderous and blood-red in its second capital, Avignon, and we are free to link this, without coercion, to the Chilean situation and the ethical somnolence of Father Urrutia.
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A 19-year-old Indiana man has been charged with three counts of felony murder after allegedly enacting a crime spree that authorities have likened to the plot of the horror film The Purge, according to court documents obtained by PEOPLE.
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And Skinceuticals' CE Ferulic — a glass dropper bottle full of yellow, watery antioxidants whose scent has been likened to hot dog water — is one of the most prized, if all the dermatologist recommendations and gushing testimonials are to be believed.
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Washington was the more physical group in the first two games of the series and breezed to a pair of wins at home, the first of which Atlanta star Paul Millsap likened to an MMA matchup instead of a basketball game.
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Canada's government was in the hands of what one National Research Council scientist I interviewed for my book The War on Science likened to small-town hardware store merchants, uninterested in any knowledge that didn't produce cash on the barrel.
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Earlier Zach likened to a sluggish morning wood to a "check engine" light, leading me to wonder how sending out boner pills wasn't analogous to giving guys a piece of duct tape over the top of that call-to-action.
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Instead they and other agri-food firms were offered cheaper loans and other small tax relief measures which the head of the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association likened to "giving someone a bicycle when they needed something with a motorised engine".
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But it would be men like the Irving Thalberg, who ran Universal Studios at 22013, and Louis B. Mayer, the power broker whose predatory behavior is likened to Harvey Weinstein's, whose careers would persist through the dramatic changes of the 1920s.
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Given the President's propensity for spinning tall tales, the raid -- which he has already likened to a movie -- will likely take on even more mythical proportions in the months to come, letting the President play the ruthless, square-jawed war leader.
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THE GREAT GAME - LITHIUM VERSION The global battle for control of lithium has been likened to the "Great Game," the term coined to describe the struggle between Russia and Britain for influence and territory in Central Asia in the 19th Century.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Dazzled Mexicans filed into the opulent residence of their presidents on Saturday, when the new government threw open its doors in a highly symbolic moment one visitor likened to entering the Palace of Versailles in the French Revolution.
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The act can be likened to prayer; each word, when transcribed from the Bible, becomes, as he writes it, inscribed inside his own psyche: his own psyche becoming, in fact, another empty book upon which the words are being transcribed.
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The result is a bruised, blistery mess—the ink, as Faith said, essentially "pops like popcorn" and causes a disgusting effect on the skin that can only be likened to a terrible sunburn or (what looks like) a flesh-eating disease.
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Be smart: The Adani mine has been likened to Australia's Keystone XL pipeline, in terms of its outsized role in defining the national debate on energy and climate change — just like Keystone has done for a decade here in America.
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Italy&aposs new anti-migrant, right-wing interior minister has made good on a campaign pledge to close Italian ports to non-governmental organizations that pick up migrants at sea, which he has likened to taxi services for migrant smugglers.
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Kuma's winning design, which some critics have likened to a stack of pancakes, will be 20 meters (22 yards) lower than the original plan and incorporate wood into the roofing in an effort to blend with its leafy downtown surroundings.
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Schultz on a number of occasions last year called for more civility in the election campaign, which he once likened to a circus, and has warned employees several times that the current political environment in the U.S. would test Americans.
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Convinced that the threat of communist infiltration had been overstated and could easily be contained by less repressive measures, he worried that EO 22003 would only empower the FBI, which he likened to the Gestapo and the Soviet secret police.
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A commission to design a stadium in Qatar — a sensuous plan that more than a few observers likened to female anatomy — became, in truth unfairly, a lightning rod for critics who decry the treatment of foreign laborers by the government there.
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In September 2014 — after a lengthy and highly publicized trial that was likened to the 1994-95 trial of O.J. Simpson in the United States — Judge Masipa convicted Mr. Pistorius of culpable homicide but found him not guilty of murder.
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" During her tenure at Yahoo, Couric sought to do high-quality journalism rather than the lower-rent stories Yahoo was best known for at the time, which she likened to "the boy who lived on ramen noodles for 13 years.
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The A-side contains three bonkers punk songs including "My Dickies" where Riddick goes ham on guitar, while the B-Side "Night Bully" hunkers down into a more industrial punk arrangement and sound that has been likened to to Chrome.
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CRISPR—a gene-editing technology that is often likened to a pair of scissors or Swiss army knife for the genome—is hot stuff in the world of science, and researchers are excited about the possibilities that the technology may bring.
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Shoppers who enter the "boardroom" at the San Francisco store, a new space for entrepreneurs and small business owners, will get an idea of the look of Apple's futuristic headquarters, which is likened to a spaceship for its circular design.
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The Chinese initiative has been likened to the United States' ambitious Marshall Plan in Europe after World War II, but the Marshall Plan was mostly composed of grants rather than onerous loans, critics argue, and went toward economically viable projects.
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His illustration of red ants on a Mobiüs strip could sort of be likened to the millions of us busily scurrying along our normal routes in a repeating loop; like roads on an island, there's circularity, no beginning and no end.
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JERUSALEM — Polish and Israeli officials met on Thursday to address the diplomatic rift that erupted over a new Polish law that makes it a crime to blame Poland for the Holocaust, a measure that Israeli officials have likened to Holocaust denial.
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During his long reign, former President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, 75, outwitted rivals, survived civil wars and famine, presided over a decade-long oil boom and created a network of security forces and militias that some likened to a spider web.
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A posting for the event on Facebook pays homage to his poem "Encounter in the Black Night," in which a "lost" generation is likened to two lovers finding their way out of darkness by touching the poles of extinguished street lamps.
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The calls are increasing despite stepped-up enforcement and other efforts to stamp them out, which some have likened to a game of Whac-a-Mole; robocallers find new phone numbers to hide behind once their numbers are ignored or blocked.
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In the 44 years since Richard M. Nixon resigned, virtually every political investigation has been likened to the one that brought down a president, the suffix "gate" applied to all sorts of public flaps, no matter how significant or trivial.
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Many global markets held firm as Chinese authorities ramped up efforts to control the outbreak of the coronavirus, which is being likened to the 2002-2003 spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and has already led to nine deaths.
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While Web Foundation CEO Alex Lovett doesn't think online political ads should be banned outright — a move he likened to "taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut" — he says that allowing them right now would be a risk to democracy.
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With six degrees of warming—a worst-case scenario science writer Mark Lynas likened to "a meteorite striking the planet"—GDP would only be projected to suffer by 7 percent relative to that of an unwarmed world, according to one model.
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Violence against the Rohingya, nearly all of whom are Muslim, in the country's Rakhine state has been likened to ethnic cleansing and has tarnished the reputation of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel laureate whose party now controls Myanmar.
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At the Queens Botanical Garden, the outdoor Fragrance Walk offers aroma therapy (deep breath, please) with its heady combination of hyacinths and Edgeworthia chrysantha, more commonly known as the paperbush plant, whose scent has been likened to a spicy gardenia.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A botanic garden on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol is expecting a stinky first in coming days as a trio of so-called corpse flowers is due to open and release an odor likened to the smell of rotting flesh.
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A company Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes once likened to the Albanian Army is now worth $863 billion, while Bewkes' Warner, now named WarnerMedia, is a subsidiary of AT&T and has lost nearly all of its top executives in the past year.
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The Justice Department on Monday sued North Carolina over a bathroom access law that it said violates the rights of transgender people, a measure that Lynch likened to policies of racial segregation and efforts to deny gay couples the right to marry.
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The most famous of those who failed to get on the ballot was popular singer Mai Khoi, 32, who is likened to Lady Gaga and has been hankering for a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama when he visits Vietnam on Monday.
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The company first talked with Laurent Alexandre, a biotech investor whom Mercier likened to a French Ray Kurzweil — he's one of these irrepressible "transhumanists" still sadly stuck in a physical body but thankfully ready to invest in elegant ways to escape from it.
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" A spokesperson for INDECLINE told VICE that the inspiration for the statue came from that quote, which one member of the collective likened to Trump saying he could "stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters.
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The "seasteading" movement, which began in earnest in 2008 in California with the financial backing of Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, has been likened to the phenomenon of micronations for its vision of establishing sovereign communities outside the control of existing states.
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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South African soldiers were deployed to gang-ridden Cape Town suburbs on Thursday to help quell escalating violence that has killed hundreds this year and that officials have likened to a war zone, a Reuters cameraman and community activists said.
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The law, which has been likened to a "French Patriot Act," allows officials to monitor emails and phone calls of would-be jihadists without court authorization, and forces telecommunications companies to store customer metadata and make it available to the government on demand.
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Both sides of the equation are fascinating, with Gallardo seeking to forge an uneasy peace among the various drug kingpins -- in what only can be likened to the mob families parceling off Cuba in "The Godfather Part II" -- establishing Mexico's first narco-union.
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Like "Revolt," a call for feminist revolution that a critic for The Telegraph likened to "a cluster-bomb of subversion" when the Royal Shakespeare Company produced it in 2014, they have a ferocity that is utterly absent from the playwright's personal demeanor.
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Nash was consistently likened to a second rate Lily Allen (because there was only room for one "real-talking" white woman from London in music) and the manner in which she spun tedious, everyday events into catchy pop songs was frequently scoffed at.
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Oil traders will be waiting to see what the world's most powerful oil producer Saudi Arabia — likened to "Superman" by the respected oil market expert Helima Croft — says and does at the forthcoming meeting of OPEC and non-OPEC producers on June 22.
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SHANGHAI — Just days after being likened to a king by President Trump, President Xi Jinping of China on Monday reiterated his commitment to reform while holding court before a group of wealthy and influential business leaders from his country and the United States.
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Some neighborhoods in New York could be likened to the "red belt" surrounding Paris: Communist-organized cooperative parties on Allerton Avenue in the Bronx were a strong base of party support, as were parts of East Harlem, Brooklyn and the Lower East Side.
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Now, with his campaign manager from that race, Joseph Percoco, convicted on Tuesday, Mr. Cuomo must concede that, at best, he did not know about the corrupt scheming occurring in the adjacent office by a man he has likened to a brother.
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"England's Orpheus" is also the title of a May 16 concert at Zankel Hall featuring the countertenor Iestyn Davies and the lutenist Thomas Dunford, with the music of, among others, Dowland and Handel, two composers also likened to Orpheus in their times.
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By looking at growth rings on the teeth — marks that the researchers likened to the growth rings of a tree, which can be used to learn about its history — they determined that the Neanderthals had experienced short-term lead exposure during colder seasons.
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The popularity of trash radio has also underscored how pockets of populism are bubbling beneath the surface in Canada — including in Ontario, where Doug Ford, a conservative likened to Mr. Trump, was recently elected premier of the province by railing against the establishment.
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A continuous chain of embedded multiplicitous ratios likened to sand, wood, or seashells inscribe lived experience into granular multi-scale polyrhythms, which cascaded around the relatively tight stereo field of the restaurant as Ashanti harnessed and juggled his inner flows of circuitous energy.
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" The La Guardia AirTrain, which could cost more than $1.5 billion, is part of Mr. Cuomo's broader plans to improve the airport, a dingy complex that Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. famously likened to an airport "in a third world country.
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According to recent news accounts published in Josimar, a Norwegian soccer magazine, and The Guardian of London, North Korean workers endured conditions likened to forced labor by some human rights activists: extended hours, little time off or pay and brutal living conditions.
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The consensus among key legislators acknowledges that privacy is not just of benefit to individuals but can be likened to public health; a level of protection afforded to each of us helps inoculate democratic societies from manipulation by vested and vicious interests.
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Flying out of La Guardia Airport — an experience Mr. Trump and Vice President Joseph R. Biden both have likened to a third world airport — is difficult enough, Mr. Benepe said, but now he worried about broader travel problems during Mr. Trump's presidency.
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Evenepoel, already being likened to Belgian great Eddy Merckx after winning the European TT title and the San Sebastian Classic in his first year as a pro, is the youngest medallist ever in the event and said his silver "felt like a gold".
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"Our criminal justice system is broken and the Queens district attorney's office is ground zero," said Councilman Rory Lancman, who announced his run for Queens district attorney in September and whose campaign message has been likened to that of Mr. Krasner's in Philadelphia.
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She's not unlike Orange Is The New Black's Piper Chapman, who show creator Jenji Kohan has previously likened to a Trojan Horse: a pretty, thin, white, blonde woman through which to tell the far more complicated stories of incarcerated women of color.
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Upstairs in the ballroom, acoustic treatments have been added to the walls and ceiling, and some remnants of the dance-party past have been removed, like a monstrous lighting rig that John Moore, one of the Bowery Presents principals, likened to Battlestar Galactica.
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While local reports indicate this occurrence is a first for Nyda, snow boulders have been seen all the way from Sweden, where they were adorably likened to potato dumplings, to Michigan's Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, which witnessed a similar phenomenon in 2013.
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Police proposed in April that Babis, a billionaire businessman-turned-politician sometimes likened to U.S. President Donald Trump, should be formally charged for fraud in tapping a European Union subsidy a decade ago to build a hotel and conference center outside Prague.
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According to U.N. officials, nearly 700,000 Rohingya have fled into Bangladesh from Rakhine to escape a military crackdown since August, amid reports of murder, rape and arson by Myanmar troops and Buddhist vigilantes which the United Nations has likened to "ethnic cleansing".
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After the acquisition, Madra was put in charge of the newly created Ford X and put to work on the Transportation Mobility Cloud, an open-source platform for cities and other transportation partners that has been likened to Amazon Web Services for self-driving cars.
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The audio search technology relies on artificial intelligence, and has been likened to a "Google for sound" – meaning that it can be used a lot like a search engine, but one that's capable of surfacing phrases found in audio files, instead of text on webpages.
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South Florida, which sits on porous limestone substrate often likened to Swiss cheese, has recently faced some of the highest rates of sea level rise in the world, and as the ocean plows further into its freshwater-adapted marshes, it's weakening them even more.
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Some scholars have said that Clinton's case was unique and cannot be likened to the current proceeding, however, because the Republicans who impeached Clinton relied on evidence laid out in a report by former independent counsel Kenneth Starr, who Democrats accused of political bias.
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In addition to his ludicrous claim about Mexicans attempting to somehow recapture American land, he said that "we don't need immigrants from incompatible places" and that white people were going through a "demographic displacement" due to immigration, which he likened to apartheid South Africa.
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Likened to an action-movie hero ahead of Britain's latest bout of brinkmanship, Prime Minister Theresa May went to war with fellow lawmakers who refused to eat a perfectly good bowl of porridge that a bunch of chefs in Europe had rustled up for them.
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The "Eightfold Way," which Gell-Mann poetically named after the Buddhist eightfold path to enlightenment, has been likened to the Mendele'ev Periodic Table of Elements in chemistry because it classified subatomic particles, like protons, neutrons, mesons, and baryons, into groups with similar and related properties.
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Opinion polls show most Russians strongly oppose the plan, which has been seen as responsible for a drop in Putin's approval rating in recent months, prompting speculation that the Russian leader, whom Navalny has likened to an autocratic tsar, may decide to dilute the reform.
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" Writing for Wired, Lauren Goode said she "managed to squeeze the folded-up Fold into the side pocket of one of my most fitted jackets, but it's inelegant in this state" and also likened to its slim narrow design to "carrying a TV remote.
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Using a molecular apparatus known as a CRISPR—which Perlstein likened to a command line editor for animal genomes—PLab alters the genome of test animals (yeasts, flies, worms, fish and sometimes mice) to mimic the broken gene disorder…to essentially, make them ill.
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McCurdy pointed out that his studies indicate that 7-hydroxymitragynine may have some addictive qualities, but when looked at in the entire plant, the ratio of that element is so little that the plant has very low abuse potential, one he likened to coffee.
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Likened to a "grave-robber's nightmare" in original reviews from 1960, CHILD is a tough piece to take in: A small figure of a child is strapped to a wooden high chair, with its head pushed back and its mouth wide open, frozen in pain.
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But he didn't resign his office, which meant that he oversaw an election in which he himself was a candidate—a conflict of interest that Abrams likened to a boxing match in which one fighter is also the referee and one of the judges.
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Winogrand, a New Yorker whose most famous photographs record the life of his native city, is sometimes likened to Norman Mailer, and he manifests — in a few audio and video recordings and in the fond memories of old friends — a similarly brash, reckless masculinity.
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KATHMANDU, Nepal — After human traffic jams at the top of Mount Everest and an aggressive, unruly atmosphere that has been likened to "a zoo," Nepalese officials said on Wednesday that they were considering changing the rules about who was allowed up the world's highest mountain.
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On Saturday, after delivering a few pandering sentences at the headquarters of the CIA, an institution he just ten days prior likened to Nazi Germany, he launched into a 209-minute rant about what was clearly weighing on him: the previous day's inauguration coverage.
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He outwitted rivals who underestimated him, steered a decade-long oil boom that swelled Sudan's middle classes, and forged a network of security forces and armed militias to fight his wars that some likened to a spider's web with Mr. al-Bashir at its center.
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A globe-trotting adventurer sometimes likened to Hemingway, he climbed mountains, crossed jungles and was a deep-sea diver, a marine zoologist, a fisherman, an aerial and undersea photographer, an archaeologist in Mexico and Central America and a connoisseur of Japanese art and culture.
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The FTSE 100 missed out as world shares held firm after Chinese authorities ramped up efforts to control the outbreak of the coronavirus, which is being likened to the 2002-2003 spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and has already led to nine deaths.
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Many of them were Cuban doctors sent on medical missions to friendly countries like Venezuela, a program that critics of the Cuban government likened to human trafficking, since the government took in billions of dollars a year in fees from the doctors' host countries.
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The house banh mi is similarly well furnished, with cha lua, pork roll steamed in banana leaves; thit nguoi, cured pork with visible pockets of fat, often likened to salami; and a house-made pâté of pork and chicken livers, the texture of clotted cream.
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Of course, Clint skewered Obama at the 2012 Republican National Convention when Mitt Romney was selected as the party's nominee, talking to an empty chair on stage during his speech that he likened to BO's presidency at the time ... empty (in his eyes, anyway).
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He does back the House Judiciary Committee's investigation, which the panel's chairman has likened to impeachment, and he appears on whip lists by The Hill and other media outlets as a "yes" on impeachment because he says the panel's actions essentially represent an inquiry.
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Multispace could look like a brand-new thing or it might look just like, say, Facebook or Google, but its core would be open technologies governed by some incorruptible, benevolent organization whose mission could be likened to that of public libraries: guarantors of free and open information.
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Court records obtained by PEOPLE confirm that Meyer-Aleman and her husband, Alejandro Aleman, face aggravated child abuse and first-degree murder stemming from the April 2016 death of Tayla, who is likened to a concentration camp survivor in audio released by the Florida State Attorney's Office.
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President Obama reportedly used a secure phone (which Obama likened to a child's toy) for his digital activities precisely because the risk of cyberattacks on the nation's chief executive — which could come by way of web-based malware or locally via wireless connections — are too great.
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The idea of the CAT, which one former SEC commissioner likened to a Hubble Space Telescope for the securities markets, was born in 2008 and gained urgency after the May 2010 "flash crash," when the stock market lost more than $1 trillion in minutes, before quickly rebounding.
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LONDON — Hospital doctors in England staged their first strike in four decades on Tuesday, disrupting treatment for thousands of patients in the National Health Service and escalating political tensions over a publicly funded health care system so revered that it was once likened to a national religion.
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DENVER (Reuters) - A Colorado couple has been jailed on suspicion of abusing their 17-year-old, blind and autistic son, who was hospitalized weighing just 88 pounds (40 kg) and whose condition a doctor likened to that of a concentration camp survivor, court records showed on Wednesday.
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Using computer vision techniques and experiments that might be likened to a slime mold version of an MRI brain scan, the researchers are examining how the slime mold uses this mechanism to transfer information around its giant unicellular body and make complex decisions between conflicting stimuli.
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U.N. officials say some 700,000 mostly Muslim Rohingya have fled into Bangladesh from Myanmar's Rakhine state to escape a military crackdown since August, amid reports of murder, rape and arson by Myanmar troops and Buddhist vigilantes in actions which the United Nations has likened to "ethnic cleansing".
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"For the first time I feel as though the canvases can speak for themselves," she says of the work, whose freewheeling feel and Caribbean colors are often likened to Matisse's, but whose influence is drawn as much from Mexican muralists and the Brazilian modernist Tarsila do Amaral.
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"There was a sense of devastation and loss — not unlike Brexit — a sort of grief," said Lady Amanda Harlech, the writer, creative consultant and muse of the Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld, recalling early stays in rooms that she likened to the inside of Marie Antoinette's jewel box.
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Meanwhile, though the government is now outwardly acknowledging Li's death, officials appear to be employing a sledgehammer approach to online displays of discontent, deleting posts and even closing down WeChat accounts -- which one of my mainland business contacts likened to a digital death sentence in China.
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Reported here for the first time, the apparent link to Ablyazov — a business tycoon who has often been likened to Bernie Madoff, the former financier who ran a massive Ponzi scheme — is a further twist, showing Roh entangled in a massive and complex money laundering case.
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Orchards like the one at Tower Hill — there are fewer than a dozen in the country, experts say — have been likened to the Svarlbard Global Seed Vault, a concrete facility storing nearly one million seed species on the side of a mountain on a Norwegian island.
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More importantly, the technology promised to drastically cut down on the amount of waste produced in manufacturing, since each upper is knit from a single piece of yarn, rather than cut, sewn, and glued together, a process sometimes likened to making cookies with a roll of dough.
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Cheng Li, an expert on Chinese politics at the Brookings Institution, said Xi appeared to have traded securing favorable amendments to the constitution in exchange for a compromise on the make-up of the Standing Committee, a line-up he likened to a "team of rivals".
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Zisis Kozlakidis, the president of the International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories, an organization that represents some 1,300 biobanks containing specimens like viruses and the reproductive cells of clouded leopards, told me a collecting rush is underway, which he likened to an international space race.
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Now, after two months languishing in a shelter, Ms. López and nearly 2000,23 other Cubans who were stranded because of a political impasse in Central America will soon be back on the trail, heading to the United States in an exodus that some officials have likened to a stampede.
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He's been a punching bag for late-night hosts and likened to a circus master on SNL, his interactions with reporters have become memes, and this week he's even getting grief about his weight from Trump adviser Steve Bannon amid reports that he's being removed from the podium.
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Its logo, an "M" with a twisted loop inscribed in a circle, lurks at airport terminal bookstores all over the world, the magazine's glossy black cover—which the late David Carr likened to "a slab of printed dark Belgian chocolate"—conveying a placeless, easily translated sort of luxury.
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Mr. Clarridge was an unflinching champion of a brawny American foreign policy and of the particular role played by the C.I.A.'s clandestine service — a cadre he likened to a secret army that "marches for the president" and ought to be subjected to as little outside scrutiny as possible.
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In 503, Rosenwald, who holds a medical degree from Temple University, started working at D.H. Blair & Co, a Wall Street boiler room that a New York state judge likened to a criminal enterprise and that was led for decades by Rosenwald's father-in-law, J. Morton "Morty" Davis.
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Maybe the same process can unfold during in an intense psychedelic trip, which is often likened to an ordeal, a harrowing journey, or even, as Tehseen Noorani, a former psychedelic researcher at Johns Hopkins, once put it to me , "a bout of incomprehensible experiences, perhaps akin to a hazing"?
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Read more: Poland's populist government let far-right extremism explode into the mainstream The new Czech prime minister Andrej Babis, appointed last week, is an anti-establishment billionaire likened to Donald Trump, who won a landslide victory in October on a platform of opposing European Union-mandated refugee quotas.
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Her beguiling concept was that by a simple pinprick — drawing only a drop or two of blood — Theranos could dispense with the hypodermic needle, which she likened to a gruesome medieval torture, and perform a full range of blood tests in walk-in clinics and, ultimately, people's homes.
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In it, Cruz talks candidly and movingly about her struggles giving up on her career for her husband, joining the campaign trail, moving to Texas from Washington, something she likened to "divorcing an essential piece of herself" and identified as a contributing factor in her struggle with depression.
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Designed by Norman Foster, an architect besotted with flight, the building is often likened to a spaceship—an impression reinforced by the fact that its foundations are decoupled from Earth's crust by a system of 700 steel disks which allows it to move back and forth during an earthquake.
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Immigration and controlled borders have been the main focus of right-wing UK Independence Party (UKIP), who have been campaigning for Britain to leave the EU. Last week, the party released a controversial poster depicting refugees crossing into Europe, which was likened to propaganda used by Nazis during World War Two.
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Though SenseTime and Megvii happily tout facial recognition for photography apps or office worker verification, they have tried to distance themselves from authorities' use of their technology in tracking people in Xinjiang, where the government's political reeducation centers were recently likened to "concentration camps" by one senior US Defense Department official.
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After years spent on covers of the most respected magazines in the country, being likened to Steve Jobs (both in fashion sense and entrepreneurial spirit), and generally ruling over the tech world, Holmes' operation was ultimately exposed for what it was: a jumble of embellished half-truths and outright lies.
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She's philosophical about the affair now, regretfully noting that she didn't know the relevant history behind his story defending a doctor at the infamous Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, a state-funded clinic which many trans folk, myself included, have likened to conversion therapy for trans people.
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Yet as Americans struggle to make sense of a public health emergency that can only be likened to the AIDS crisis of the 80s—and lobby for something better than President Trump's toothless declaration, offered without any new funding or programs—we're also trying to figure out how we got here.
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ARKit, Apple's augmented reality framework that CEO Tim Cook recently likened to being as "dramatic" a development as the App Store itself, has now been installed more than 43 million times worldwide through a host of ARKit-powered apps and games, according to a new report out today from Sensor Tower.
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On the roadbed above, the array of median barriers and fences, including a reinforced-mesh overhang in the shape of a backstop, brought to mind the collection of wall prototypes that Trump had recently gone to see in San Diego—the disembodied slabs that some had likened to conceptual art.
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They typically buy the renewable energy in amounts to match what they draw from the grid — a system of swaps that Ms. Jackson of Apple likened to using an A.T.M. "The dollar you deposit in the bank might not be the exact same bill that you get out," she said.
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