Doing nothing at work is akin to masturbating at work it's totally inappropriate.

Theresa May said that this proposal would make Northern Ireland carry out different tariff regulations, akin to its secession from Britain.

It was indicated that this approach assumed that the shipper should be provided with protection inspired by principles akin to those of consumer protection.

The G8 Summit proposes that the solution to Africa's problems should be a massive increase in aid, something akin to the Marshall Plan.

Non tradable activities are akin to a country s sports leagues different people like different teams.

Except, in reality, the way the industry sold yogurt was to convert it to something much more akin to ice cream.

Becoming a member is a seven year process of induction and indoctrination. The Brotherhood is a movement run by a hierarchy that is more akin to the Bolsheviks.

He or she should not attempt to centralize information, but rather to make it flow more smoothly. Call it information liquidity, akin to financial liquidity.

without adding , God willing. And when you forget, remember your Lord, and say, Maybe my Lord will guide me to something more akin to rectitude than this.

without adding , God willing. And when you forget, remember your Lord, and say, Maybe my Lord will guide me to something more akin to rectitude than this.

Furthermore, shortages in Poland s residential rental market restrict workers ability to move to where the jobs are. Arguably, Poland s labor market is more akin to Spain s than that of Scandinavia, where generous social protection allows for extensive employee training.

But banks can use internal mathematical models to calculate their own risk weights. This is akin to marking one s own exam paper unsurprisingly, banks risk scores are usually on the safe side.

As devotees of the 12th Imam, the Hojatieh believe that only great tribulation will warrant his coming. Akin in some ways to Lenin s doctrine that worsening social conditions would hasten revolution, the Hojatieh believe that only increased violence, conflict, and oppression will bring the Mahdi s return.

It is my hope that North East Asia will achieve relations akin to those we see in Europe, for this will open an entirely new chapter in the history of North East Asia, which in turn will contribute to global peace and prosperity.

For the US, displacing Russia as India s leading arms supplier was a major diplomatic triumph, akin to Egypt s decision during the Cold War to shift its allegiance and its arms supplier from the Soviet Union to America. The difference is that India can actually pay for the weapons that it acquires.

It is also becoming increasingly clear that Hu will continue to rely on a variety of politically retrograde propaganda tactics. He has revived the use of ideological campaigns, akin to those used during the Cultural Revolution, such as a requirement that Party members study The Collected Works of Jiang Zemin .

Concerned about the continued establishment of checkpoints in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the transformation of several of these checkpoints into structures akin to permanent border crossings inside the Occupied Palestinian Territory

Concerned about the continued establishment of checkpoints in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the transformation of several of these checkpoints into structures akin to permanent border crossings inside the Occupied Palestinian Territory,

Fearing that elections might bring an Islamist majority to Parliament and to the assembly that will write a new constitution, most secularists demanded supra constitutional principles (akin to a bill of rights, with a few twists) or a constitution to be enforced by the SCAF before elections. They staged street demonstrations, mobilized media pressure, and lobbied the SCAF.

For Britons, this idea stirs sentiments akin to what Germans might feel if the EU proposed a new tax on liverwurst, with the proceeds to go into the central pot. They also point out that, unless an FTT were agreed globally, financial companies would quickly migrate from London to New York.

Concerned also about the continued imposition of checkpoints in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the transformation of several of these checkpoints into permanent structures akin to border crossings inside the Occupied Palestinian Territory ,

This modest claim, which refers only to promotion, is more than made up for by the description of the work of the Human Rights Committee The Committee's final decisions on the merits are akin to judgements, but are called Views'.

In reality, translation is akin to working for peanuts, since the corresponding meaning of something in one language is often hidden in some deep and impenetrable recesses of the other. As a result, the translator is forced to search all over... Never mind that the picky reader is very difficult to fool.

Most of its people are politically impotent and poor in terms of both wealth and prospects. Islam never experienced something akin to the Reformation in Europe the lines between the sacred and the secular are unclear and contested.

But the word a combination of the Greek nostos (homecoming) and algos (pain) was coined to describe the disease of acute homesickness. Perhaps it would be beneficial to return to that definition of nostalgia, at least in its political manifestation, as something more akin to an illness a condition that distorts reality and impedes the formulation of effective solutions for real world challenges.

Europeans, for their part, are still hysterical about getting caught up in the Russia Ukraine gas dispute that left their pipelines dry for a few days at the beginning of this year. They see discussing energy security with Russia as akin to chatting about water safety with Comrade Crocodile.

GENEVA Europe s slow motion sovereign debt crisis may appear unique, but it is not. Just a few decades ago, Europe had the Exchange Rate Mechanism, which collapsed during a crisis very much akin to the one afflicting Europe today.

This might appear excessively hopeful, yet in Afghanistan, a country akin to Iraq in many ways, there are groups working towards this goal. The Cooperation for Peace and Unity (CPAU) provides a model of how this can be done.

Nonetheless, the ECB is right that it is faced with very different monetary conditions in different member states indeed, the eurozone is akin to a badly working fixed exchange rate system, with all of the attendant risks. Ultimately, limiting the ECB to its conventional tool kit amounts to accepting the risk of a eurozone collapse.

And those who afterwards believed and left their homes and strove along with you, they are of you and those who are akin are nearer one to another in the ordinance of Allah. Lo! Allah is Knower of all things.

And those who afterwards believed and left their homes and strove along with you, they are of you and those who are akin are nearer one to another in the ordinance of Allah. Lo! Allah is Knower of all things.

Several proponents of these new ideas have openly used the analogy with drugs. It has been argued that if, in 2007, the US had a Financial Products Safety Commission akin to its Food and Drugs Administration, the market would not have been flooded with teaser mortgages that entangled millions of households in chains of predatory credit.

Owing to its underdeveloped financial system and inefficient capital markets, China would be unable to withstand an attack akin to those that triggered the Asian financial crisis without the protection of capital controls. Already, even without a major speculative attack, the exchange rate and interest rate arbitrage facilitated by renminbi internationalization have imposed significant losses on China.

Even for Greece, the IMF argued, debt dynamics were not a serious concern, thanks to anticipated growth and reforms. Never mind the obvious flaw in the Fund s logic, namely that countries such as Greece and Portugal face policy and implementation risks far more akin to emerging markets than to truly advanced economies such as Germany and the United States.

For me, the nomad was a romantic figure, akin to the American cowboy of the Wild West. In the world s harshest environment, they trekked hundreds of kilometers, surviving on camel milk and dried meat, with all of their possessions strapped to a camel s back.

What is less clear, though, is whether the same justification can be used by central banks to create permanent swap lines with just a few other central banks of their choosing. This is akin to an announcement on a cruise ship approaching an iceberg that the crew will definitely rescue first class passengers but not necessarily others.

He sends down water from the sky that fills riverbeds to overflowing, each according to its measure. The torrent carries along swelling foam, akin to what rises from smelted ore from which man makes ornaments and tools. God thus depicts truth and falsehood. The scum is cast away, but whatever is of use to man remains behind. God thus speaks in parables.

He sends down water from the sky that fills riverbeds to overflowing, each according to its measure. The torrent carries along swelling foam, akin to what rises from smelted ore from which man makes ornaments and tools. God thus depicts truth and falsehood. The scum is cast away, but whatever is of use to man remains behind. God thus speaks in parables.

Something akin to this mistake has befallen American foreign policy. The United States has become preoccupied with the Middle East in certain ways, the wrong Orient and has not paid adequate attention to East Asia and the Pacific, where much of the twenty first century s history will be written.

A mere one hour flight from Miami, the country struggles with poverty levels akin to the poorest parts of sub Saharan Africa. But, whereas many parts of the world are extremely poor because of their isolation, Haiti is extremely poor despite its proximity to the world s largest market.

The sources of those tensions are clear North Korea s shelling of South Korea s Yeonpyeong Island and its flaunting of a modern, previously unknown, nuclear plant the US led armada now cruising through the South China and Yellow Sea and China s claim that the South China Sea is an area of vital national interest akin to Tibet.

CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA One question that should have been asked about the Chinese Communist Party s just completed leadership transition is whether the entire elaborately choreographed exercise was akin to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. The installation of a new leadership may matter little if the end of CCP rule is both foreseeable and highly probable.

Modi s victory and Abe s increased ability to stand by Japan s allies can help to forge deeper bilateral ties and, if properly understood by China, foster a greater strategic equilibrium in the region. It is now possible for Asia s greatest powers China, India, Japan, and the US to form something akin to the concert system that gave Europe a century of almost complete peace in the nineteenth century.

This idea is lost in today s cost accounting for universities, which treats what transpires between teacher and student in the classroom as akin to what happens between producer and consumer in the market. In both cases, it is assumed that the value of the exchanged good is decided shortly after its delivery according to how it satisfies an immediate need.

Indeed, the successes of Team GB produced an upsurge of patriotic rejoicing akin to victory in war. Britain finished third in the gold medal count, behind the United States and China, much larger countries, but ahead of Russia, which traditionally competes with America for first place.