Likening Sentence Examples

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  • Both successions were doomed to failure; and the result 7 In likening the earth to a cylinder Anaximander recognized its circular figure in one direction.

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  • So Gregory of Narck upbraids the Thonraki for their "anthropolatrous apostasy, their selfconf erred contemptible priesthood which is a likening of themselves to Satan" (= Christ in Thonraki parlance).

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  • Esther, moreover, ought to be parallel to Judith; fancy likening the representative of Israel to the goddess Ishtar !

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  • Firstly, I have recently veered away from likening the sexuality debate to the male/female debate.

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  • Critics gave the show a lukewarm response, with one reviewer likening it to "eating diet rice cakes," but the viewing audience disagreed and turned My Fair Wedding into a top rated show for WE.

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  • For as the angels were mismanaging the world, owing to their individual lust for rule, he had come to set things straight, and had descended under a changed form, likening himself to the Principalities and Powers through whom he passed, so that among men he appeared as a man, though he was not a man, and was thought to have suffered in Judaea, though he had not suffered.

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