Will any large grouping of people exchanging information settle into a pattern akin to that of traditional media?
But the big worry is that spreading unrest will culminate in another shock akin to the oil embargo of 1973, the Iranian revolution or Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
"Personal carbon offsets are akin to indulgences sold by the Church in the Middle Ages," said Roger Pielke Jr, an expert on science policy from the University of Colorado in Boulder.
The proposal that seems to be gaining most traction is for a liquidity facility funded by a levy on the industry, akin to the FDIC’s deposit-insurance scheme for banks.
The problem is akin to what happened in early set theory.
It was not a smile, but it was something so enigmatic, it seemed akin to either ecstasy or anguish.
Hebb replied that the question was akin to asking which feature of a rectangle-length or width-made the most important contribution to its area.
A panorama is more akin to the experience we get on a device like a laptop.
The kind of defence we want is not something akin to the Maginot Line, but more like manoeuvre warfare.
At ground level, such vibrations-akin to low-frequency sound waves-are very small, only about the size of the vertical motions that produce them.
The next page you see, akin to Figure 4, is a list of permissions per module.
A minister talks with despairing candour of Yemen's moribund civil service, which often seems akin to a large-scale unemployment-benefits scheme.
Similarly, work is under way to allow links, akin to those between websites, to be set up between virtual worlds based on open standards and hosted on different machines.
Chastising Goldman Sachs for flexing its muscles on behalf of a customer is akin to slapping a kitten for its adventures with a ball of wool.
Tess had never before visited this part of the country, and yet she felt akin to the landscape.
Their schedules are also displayed on large television screens, akin to flight schedule displays in airports.
Some levy fees on certain products, akin to bottle deposits, to ensure they are disposed of safely.
Due to the reputation of turkeys being incredibly stupid, the term "Turkey" began being used as a slang, derogatory term meaning something akin to "idiot" around the early 20th century.
Several people took a gesture of political confrontation on the street akin to "perfor-mance art," but this remains a mere episode, as long as we do not set a "zero tolerance" goal.
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