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It is therefore in many ways more akin to an art rather than a science.
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Preference shares, particularly redeemable preference shares, are sometimes considered to be more akin to loan stock than share capital.
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The new organisation will be more akin to an organism, adopting the language of biology rather than the machine.
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Nevertheless, in terms of the rights which attach, redeemable preference shares are more akin to debt than shares.
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They were more akin to the machine politicians we know today than to the noble coalition builders and power-brokers who preceded them.
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This is very narrow, more akin to a country lane, with few passing places, but is relatively traffic free.
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This unstable region of Ulthuan has a strange other-worldly quality more akin to the realms of Chaos than to mortal lands.
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They are therefore more akin to the conventional drugs.
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It is therefore in many ways more akin to an art rather than a science.
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Keeping a steady blaze is akin to the way in which women generate and maintain emotional energy.
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Nevertheless, in terms of the rights which attach, redeemable preference shares are more akin to debt than shares.
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The relationship between each group and management was akin to that of contractor and client.
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The staff relaxed, until the building started expanding and contracting - an effect they described as akin to heavy breathing.
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To be enjoying the war was very wrong, but her new-found feeling of achievement was akin to joy.
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Yet it is clear that something akin to what Kazantzakis depicts must have occurred in actuality.