Word: likening
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...years, the Law School had been known as “Beirut on the Charles,” a moniker referring to the vicious academic infighting that made many liken its acrimonious atmosphere to the brutal civil war in Lebanon...
...this far has been an achievement itself. A lunar mission has been consistently opposed by sections of India's political and scientific community ever since it was proposed in 1999. Critics question the logic of a country battling dire poverty spending millions of dollars on scientific pursuits that they liken to reinventing the wheel. They said the ISRO should stick to socially relevant research as it did after its establishment in 1969: launching satellites for landscape and resource mapping, weather forecasting, or communications and educational broadcasts...
...twin 2-year-olds with his partner of five years, Kristina Hathaway. His opposition to marriage is political, in solidarity with gays who can't legally wed in most states, and personal - he and his partner both got divorced in their 20s, an experience that has led McCauley to liken marriage to food poisoning: "You don't want to eat that thing again, even if you know it's perfectly fine this time." (Read "A Gay-Marriage Solution: End Marriage...
Polonsky also points out what he deems faulty, nonanalogous logic sometimes used by advocates for shorter shifts, who liken residents' work regulations to those for commercial pilots, who are similarly prohibited from flying more than a maximum number of hours in a stretch. "If you think of what is really proposed [by the IOM], it is like having a pilot switching over in midflight or asking him to switch over as he's about to land," he says. "'Well, your time is up, it's time for someone else to take over...
...courage to resign" if he'd "known about it at the time I was serving," but, hey, he didn't know • acknowledgement of as torture in Bush administration memos finally released by the Obama administration that also describe lots of other "enhanced interrogation" techniques that "critics liken to torture" - like, say, repeatedly slamming people against walls ("walling") - but, hey, that's still no reason to hold the officials who authorized these illegal tactics, you know, accountable...