Whatever it is, it's a mindset that is reminiscent of General Motors.

And a quote that sounds largely reminiscent from everything I've been reading all week.

It's reminiscent of the description of history as one damn thing after another, right?

The world must completely divest itself of mindsets and vestiges reminiscent of imperialistic tendencies that appear to linger in various forms.

This graph that I'm clicking down here is meant to be reminiscent of a medical heartbeat graph, showing the exciting moments of adrenaline.

It's a little bit reminiscent of 1969 when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, and everybody was about to race out toward the stars.

And from that little egg, they pass through this spiky little porcupine fish stage, reminiscent of their ancestry, and develop this is their little adolescent stage.

Immediately following the coup, the European Union adopted an ambivalent position toward it. This, too, is reminiscent of Algeria in 1992, when most European governments supported the annulment of the Islamists electoral victory.

These are reminiscent of the kinds of categories that Immanuel Kant argued are the basic framework for human thought, and it's interesting that our unconscious use of language seems to reflect these Kantian categories.

In short, Germany during the World Cup is reminiscent of a Shakespearean midsummer night s dream, with a touch of Woodstock to boot. Outside the stadiums, public screenings of the games have become joyous mass happenings.

Like certain other aspects of the US China economic relationship, China s adjustment is reminiscent of Japan with a 30 year lag. Japan s trade balance fell into deficit in 2011, for the first time since 1980.

In any event, Israel s leaders are not actually interested in a realistic peace. Instead, they seem to want a solution reminiscent of nineteenth century Ireland which led to a century of casualties on both sides.

Those were not exactly enlightened words especially in view of what was shortly to come. Yet Deng seized the moment at a critical juncture that is strikingly reminiscent of the one now faced by Xi and Li.

He has chosen to respond by tightening his autocratic grip, with the body that appoints prosecutors and judges set to become a mere appendage of the justice ministry. His supporters have been launching smear campaigns against Gülenists that are reminiscent of Gülenist tactics.

Yet little changes. As a result, the peasant question is now threatening social stability and is potentially explosive in a way reminiscent of when Mao organized his revolution around peasant disaffection with the rural policies of the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai shek.

But they have to be open to cooperation and coordination with others. We must be vigilant in resisting the start of a trend reminiscent of developments in the early years of the twentieth century a trend that quickly led to global disaster.

And in an enormous 40 page paper in German he says, at one point my wife is German and she translated it for me and at one point he says, ganz widerlich Geruch, an absolutely repulsive smell, which is good. Reminiscent of hydrogen sulfide.

To be sure, there were indications of a temporary pick up in annual consumption growth to nearly 4 in the fourth quarter of 2013. Yet that is reminiscent of a comparable 4.3 spurt in the fourth quarter of 2010, an upturn that quickly faded.

Of course, should the US see failure ahead, it could seek to broaden the war beyond Iraq s borders by attacking Iran, a policy reminiscent of Operation Sideshow, when US failure in Vietnam in the late 1960 s enticed President Nixon into attacking Cambodia and Laos.

Japan is deploying vast government aid and private sector engagement reminiscent of its investments in China at the height of Japanese global economic power in the 1980 s. Japan appears to be acting not only for commercial reasons, but also according to its strategic interests.

It takes little foresight, however, to predict that more force will not produce more security for Israel. The policy, reminiscent of terrorist stratagems, of bombing civilians in order to force the hands of their leaders will only strengthen the radicals and boost their popular support.

DENVER Much has been said about the similarities between the chaos in Syria and the Balkan wars of the 1990 s. But, while the prolonged killing may indeed be reminiscent, the political and diplomatic effort that finally ended the war in Bosnia is hardly in evidence today.

Unlike Europe, beset by a sovereign debt crisis, and the United States, whose leaders are wrangling over how to stem the deficit, Russia may look like an oasis of stability and continuity. But that continuity is more reminiscent of the zastoi, or stagnation, of the Brezhnev era.

This situation is an injustice of vast proportions, reminiscent of and arguably much worse than the now repudiated colonialism of the Western powers in the nineteenth century. The task of remedying it must begin at the meeting on climate change that will be held in Copenhagen in December.

In general, there are three ways to foster international peace deepening economic interdependence, promoting democracy, and building international institutions. Unfortunately, because East Asia s political leaders have failed to pursue the latter objective, they now find themselves playing dangerous balance of power games reminiscent of Europe a century ago.

In Europe, where national economic failure once led to the collapse of democracy itself, people are now asking if it could happen again. Some see another Weimar moment, reminiscent of the belt tightening and surging unemployment that characterized Heinrich Brüning s Germany and helped to bring the Nazis to power.

Countries that have outstanding debt in dollars or other foreign currencies are especially vulnerable. If their export revenues were to plunge relative to their debt service obligations, the result could be crises reminiscent of Latin America s in 1982 or the Asian and Russian currency crises of 1997 1998.

Will the political winds shift to reinvigorate economic liberalization, with politicians reminiscent of Britain s Margaret Thatcher or the US s Ronald Reagan coming to the fore, breathing the fire of change? Will politicians finally tell their citizens that if their economies continue to sleep, they may not wake up?

The scandals provided the right with an opportunity to deliver a coup de grace to the SLD in the form of parliamentary investigative commissions. The hearings, reminiscent of Joe McCarthy s witch hunts in 1950 s America, humiliated the SLD and, in large part, compromised the entire post 1989 period.

The current tone surrounding the peak oil debate is reminiscent of that surrounding the global war on terror, with the phrase you re either with us or against us recycled to polarize observers and analysts. But as in any other debate, once extreme positions dominate, the real problems are trivialized and marginalized.

Perhaps the saddest of all foreign reactions came from the University of Chile s student federation. Using language reminiscent of the Stalinist 1950 s, the federation which has led student protests demanding better education in Chile condemned their Venezuelan counterparts for defending the old order and deviating from the path the people have chosen.

This could just be the beginning. With Africa s current market of one billion people set to swell to three billion by 2045 including 1.1 billion people of working age (more than in China or India) its long term economic and commercial prospects are reminiscent of China s when it opened up more than three decades ago.

Collapsing emerging market currencies, and the resulting trade pressures, will make it all the more difficult for them to prevent their unemployment levels from rising significantly. In the absence of a backstop for emerging country finances, the doomsday scenario of a protectionist vicious cycle reminiscent of the 1930 s could no longer be ruled out.

For the literary minded, it was reminiscent of Jonathan Swift s Gulliver s Travels. Gulliver finds himself caught in a war between two tribes, one of which believes that a boiled egg should always be opened at the narrow end, while the other is fervent in its view that a spoon fits better into the bigger, rounded end.

After all, he reacted to China s growing activities in Africa which his officials maintained was reminiscent of imperialism by receiving an official visit in 2006 from Taiwan s then President Chen Shui bian. As the pressure from the rebels grew, Qaddafi s last hope for maintaining power became China, and so fear of its influence in Africa was brushed aside.

A raft of populist policies underpinned his first four year government, from rural debt suspension and cheap universal healthcare to handing out 25,000 to each of 77,000 villages for entrepreneurial start up funds. Reminiscent of development strategies prevalent in East Asia, Thaksin picked strategic niche industries to propel Thailand s economic expansion, focusing on automobiles, fashion, food, healthcare, and tourism.

CAMBRIDGE With its presidential election over, the United States can finally take a breather from campaign politics, at least for a while. But an uncomfortable question lingers How is it possible for the world s most powerful country and its oldest continuous democracy to exhibit a state of political discourse that is more reminiscent of a failed African state?

The structure that Britain seems to have in mind is, according to some, reminiscent of the loose alliance binding the British Commonwealth. But History s ruse could be that even as the British succeed in improving Turkey s prospects for admission, the renegotiation of the Nice treaty, which will become necessary if Croatia is admitted, is likely to lead to stronger European integration.

This renewed embrace of the market, reminiscent of Deng Xiaoping s original turn to capitalism in 1979, will be hard medicine for China s entrenched business and government elites to swallow. If Xi s administration is successful a big if its reforms may enable China to negotiate the necessary transition from an economy driven by exports and government investment to a more sustainable growth model based on domestic consumption.

I have often thought that cricket is really, in the sociologist Ashis Nandy s phrase, an Indian game accidentally discovered by the British. Everything about cricket seems ideally suited to the Indian national character its rich complexity, the endless possibilities and variations that can occur with each delivery, the dozen different ways of getting out all are reminiscent of a society of infinite forms and varieties.

When it was finally proved that power had turned Chen into a common criminal, the KMT was voted back into power. But, while Chen s legacy of lies and corruption has ended, the reborn KMT under President Ma Ying jeou has much to do to convince a cynical public that Chen s ways, reminiscent of KMT s own darker past, have not become embedded in the system.

In this sense, though Obama did not back away from rhetorical expressions of transformational goals regarding such issues as climate change or nuclear weapons, in practice his pragmatism was reminiscent of more incremental presidential leaders like Dwight Eisenhower or George H. W. Bush. Despite his relative inexperience in international affairs, Obama showed a similar skill in reacting to a complex set of foreign policy challenges.

And yet, it is also a region with a distant history of great economic and cultural achievement in the Silk Road era, and that recently has emerged as a focus of renewed global competition reminiscent of the Cold War. Can Central Asia regain a key role at the center of the huge Eurasian landmass, surrounded by some of the world s most dynamic economies China, Russia, and India?

What Europe is trying to do in Portugal and Greece is reminiscent of central banks futile efforts in past decades to keep exchange rates away from the market equilibrium price level. Some central banks, such as the Bank of England in its unsuccessful fight against George Soros in 1992, got burned when it became clear how much money was required to buck the market, the policy was abandoned.

Hollande is also aware that, for historical and cultural reasons, France s international role must be different from that of other countries. In his book Changer de destin (Changing Destiny), published in February, he affirms that France s message will continue to be a universal one a stance reminiscent of the birth in 1789 of the French Republic, which, like the United States, was originally conceived as the triumph of liberty and democracy.