The ornate snowflake decoration on top turned out to be more akin to marzipan than to conventional icing.
As they say in the newsroom, the Murdochs just may be a running story akin to Watergate.
He decided the patients at his hospital and South Korean schoolchildren would be inspired by something akin to it.
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If blockbusters become rarer than they already are, chasing solely after them could be akin to hunting unicorns when there are plenty of deer to shoot.
It is striking that this generally poor country seems, in some areas of life, to be following a path more akin to Western countries than its neighbours.
For a Dutchman to say he was bored with beer would be akin to knocking Rembrandt.
One way to accelerate this would be to create an export financing arm for technology products akin to what the U.S. now has for commodities.
Loomis Sayles portfolio manager David Rolley expects the ultimate outcome to be something akin to a bungee jump.
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At this point, expecting Amazon to actually divulge genuine numbers surrounding its Kindle business would be akin to expecting that so-called "fiscal cliff" to just vanish overnight.
Maybe companies would reconceive cars as a platform like iPhones and let third parties create apps that could be sold through something akin to the Apple App Store.
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Tax breaks are akin to state aids, they say, and should therefore be subjected to the same rules.
He says OnLive will also be able to support interactivity and extra features akin to those found in a Blu-ray player.
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Some were hoping for a Western price drop akin to what Japan will be getting soon.
De Castries, a fan of Greek mythology, believes a Greek exit would be akin to opening a Pandora's box.
It would be akin to the problem with High Frequency Trading.
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Trying to trim it to the size of a banner or a signup ad will be akin to trying to convert a lion into a vegetarian.
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But the state takeover of Detroit would be more sweeping, akin to the control board over Washington, D.
The treatments can also be quite painful, akin to someone snapping a rubber band at your skin.
The shift in currency rates, according to Dalio, will be akin to the Bretton Woods break-up in 1971.
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The speculation is that Fletcher could be working on something more akin to what Dan Roth is doing at LinkedIn.
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But the complexity of their technology makes it very unlikely that anything akin to their clone factory will be seen on Earth.
It may be that the logic of systemic corruption is akin to that of doping in athletics.
That would actually be somewhat impressive, roughly akin to what Canada and Slovakia achieved in recent decades.
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Carrying the aerospace analogy, Simmons says the investigation into this disaster will be akin to that following the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger.
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In the now vast multimedia universe, that may be akin to sending a message via telegraph instead of e-mail.
It's intended to be akin to a visit to the altar, or the celestial end point of a pilgrimage.
Rather, managers hired women because they expected programming to be a low-skill clerical function, akin to filing, typing, or telephone switching.
This change should make our valuation, forecast, and ratings services more useful as the sector and industry groupings will be more akin to similar designations found on Bloomberg and other financial data service providers.
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