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Example sentences for: analogy

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Although never rigorously derived, this region can be viewed as an empirical analogy of the confidence region.
The enhanced ability of Fnr to activate dmsABC gene expression is possibly, by analogy to Crp, due to increased affinity of Fnr at the consensus versus the native non-consensus Fnr recognition sequence at dmsA . Likewise, the poor match of the Fnr site at the promoter for the fumarate reductase gene, frdA to the consensus Fnr sequence may account for the relatively weak anaerobic induction for this respiratory operon [ 14 ] .
The obvious objection to this analogy is that, while you can clearly assault someone twice, you can only kill a person once.
OK, I know that analogy doesn't really work.
(Ross Perot, too, was fond of this analogy, since he was a CEO.)