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"to liken" in Spanish
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to liken(also: to equate, to benchmark)
Chairman Giscard d'Estaing's draft constitution may be likened to a large removal firm.
El proyecto de constitución del Presidente Giscard d'Estaing se podría comparar con una gran empresa de mudanzas.
Perhaps he is upset that Mr Barroso has likened him to the Sheriff of Nottingham.
Tal vez está enfadado porque el señor Barroso le ha comparado con el sheriff de Nottingham.
In the Committee on Legal Affairs and Citizens' Rights Sir Leon Brittan likened the WTO talks to a poker game.
En la Comisión de Asuntos Jurídicos y de Derechos de los Ciudadanos, Sir Leon Brittan ha comparado las negociaciones de la OMC con una partida de póker.
to liken(also: to compare)
You had remarked earlier in the House that you likened yourself to a diesel engine.
Antes comentó a la Asamblea que usted se asemeja a un motor diesel.
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We are not in competition with the USA - one could almost liken this to a beauty contest.
No estamos en competencia con los Estados Unidos -casi cabría hablar de un concurso de belleza.
(Liken they Allah to) that which is bred among ornaments and which in disputes cannot make itself plain (or give an account of itself)!
¿[Una hija --] alguien que será criado [sólo] como un adorno?!
The people of China liken this disaster to earlier cataclysms accompanying major historical changes in that country.
La población de China asocia el desastre a otros cataclismos anteriores acompañados de importantes cambios históricos en el país.
We must not liken these people to illegal immigrants; that would be like riding roughshod over the principle that asylum seekers should not be expelled or returned.
Es fundamental no encasillar a estas personas como inmigrantes ilegales, lo que equivaldría a echar por tierra el principio de non-refoulement.
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