The idea grown men might follow a game like children would have struck them as insane.
Labour has built a society which seems to treat adults like children and children like adults.
Many of the goods displayed, like children's desks and patio furniture, represent a dream of upward mobility.
All that morning we followed the news fiercely, like children listening to a thunderstorm in the dark.
Like children, the monkeys feel they "need to get the same thing as somebody else, " de Waal said.
We raised our glasses again and grinned at each other like children who had agreed on something for once.
They seem so innocent, like children at my neighborhood day-care center in Atlanta.
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They listen like children, entranced, as if any glimpse of a world elsewhere, especially a warm one, were a blessing.
When it gets right down to it, culturally we're like children who have to be forced to eat our vegetables.
The most common is to provide for people who are financially dependent on you like children and perhaps a spouse.
Like children everywhere, she had made the rules purposely impenetrable in order to stack the odds of winning in her favour.
Animals are like children in that they can't speak up for themselves.
And you talk about the insurance reforms that are popular like children with preexisting conditions or the doughnut hole or caps and rescissions.
They shake their fists, not in anger but in glee, like children who have just scored a goal or opened a Christmas gift.
Edzard Ernst, Professor of Complementary Medicine at Exeter University, says it is well known that alternative therapies can have side effects, especially in vulnerable groups like children.
Cinder blocks were scattered across the ground like children's toys.
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The new film unwinds in one take, lasting ninety minutes, and by some miracle we grow happily accustomed to its rhythm, like children held rapt by a bedtime story.
Like children anywhere, their hands still stretched out to greet us when we trudged up a hillside in the Bekaa Valley to reach the snowbound concrete blocks they now call home.
Not only did Paterno like children, Thornburgh wrote, but made sure to participate in a Penn State dance marathon charity for children with cancer and was a supporter of the Special Olympics.
Kasai noted that one of the ways that H1N1 differs from seasonal flu and other pandemics is that it seems to affect young adults more severely, in addition to traditionally high-risk populations like children and the elderly.
It is a summary court in perpetual session and when I visit those bare, rundown yet teeming classrooms across Africa, they are full of children, like our children, desperate to learn.
And that's ultimately what I believe both peoples want -- which is why I think -- I think it was very interesting that in my speech in Jerusalem, some of the strongest applause came when I addressed the Israeli people and I said, you have to think about these Palestinian children like your own children.
We treat our values, like our children, not equally but uniquely, and we don't like having to choose which one we would sacrifice to save another.
Like small children at bedtime, Wall Street likes to be told a comforting story.
Executives seem to regard investors like small children, who should be seen and not heard.
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But they're still like small children compared with the vast scope of human ability.
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