His words were prophetic.

Conservative modernization is a gamble.

A monopoly is like running on firm ground.

New ideas are like new drugs.

Am I now beyond reflecting the revolution, instead reflecting the war and, like the war, full of disease and death?

And it's like cleansing yourself so that you can ...

Competition is like a treadmill.

And you can hit it again. That's kind of ham fisted. You might just push it into a third keyhole or whatever, so you don't do that.

It looks like the Willy Wonka factory at this point.

It would be like waking from a nightmare.

And in a silence close to being blind to the crime, everyone shut up.

Bo behaved more like an American politician.

It s like nuclear proliferation, only far easier.

Political leadership at such a moment demands a Churchillian accent.

I had a vision of myself in a fluffy anorak, looking like the Michelin Man.

It sounds like some quiz show or something, doesn't it?

One senses something like the making of an American Asian dominated universe.

As it stands, Afghanistan s economy is a house of cards.

Indeed, it increasingly resembles a chicken farm after a fox has broken in.

Indeed, they are us while remaining themselves.

Europe wishes desperately that it had America s problems.

So it's like the different layers of what we are made of and what we present to the world as an identity.

As Gandhi said, To a hungry man, a piece of bread is the face of God.

FLORENCE British politics has always been something of an experimental laboratory for the industrialized world.

That social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

National narratives are, indeed, a type of currency.

To some extent, the two countries problems are mirror images of each other.

Turkey was traditionally a bystander in Middle East politics.

For without that, one difficult journey would be not merely difficult but close to impossible.

Trying to understand the Hermit Kingdom can be like staring into a black hole.

In this sense, Hurricane Sandy was like gun violence.

This dynamic is similar to that of an asset bubble, albeit faster.

Thatcher s embrace of the cause of our freedom was electrifying for me.

Right now, a genome is akin to a novel written in an unknown language.

This may well look like structural unemployment in three years.

The situation resembles that of a crowded cinema with only one exit.

And you might also know that, for science and medicine, Boston is a bit of a candy store.

This makes the 1970s, 1980 s, and 1990 s look like an era of accelerating discovery and therapeutic development.

The ever vain Depardieu (and what actor isn t vain?) will be a god in Russia.

US policy has devolved into a sort of wheel of fortune game for financial firms.

The outcome resembles a Shakespeare comedy of confused identity.

It was the proverbial match thrown by a careless smoker into a parched forest.

Support for the deserving poor was to her like charity wrung from the household budget.

LONDON Some fine ideas are rather like a beautiful object with a time bomb inside.

Gandhism without moral authority is like Marxism without a proletariat.