Despite questions and cries of frustration from demonstrators, the police were eerily silent.

It is eerily reminiscent of cases when state officials resort to impersonating activists to gain access to their networks and personal information exactly the scenario the prankster journalists are hoping to avoid by raising Ukrainian authorities' awareness. What can Russia really access?

The situation itself is reminiscent of classic border provocations.

His bright, simplified style is reminiscent of Marc Chagall.

In its syntax and grammar it is reminiscent of Chinese.

These storylines are reminiscent of real life corruption cases in China.

For the literary minded, it was reminiscent of Jonathan Swift s Gulliver s Travels.

Conditions in Greece today are reminiscent of those in Germany in 1933.

This is ominously reminiscent of China s initial response to SARS in 2003.

The relaxation areas will look like small green spaces, reminiscent of parks.

While the attacks were reminiscent of the 90s, Turkish society has moved on.

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

But that continuity is more reminiscent of the zastoi, or stagnation, of the Brezhnev era.

The fables themselves are strange and vivid, while the character of the tsar remains eerily familiar to citizens living in many former Soviet countries.

Their main arguments are reminiscent the arguments put forward by those who backed the Cuban Revolution.

The first single, the ballad Te Extraño, Te Olvido, Te Amo , was reminiscent of his earlier work.

Nonetheless, political divisions within Europe are reminiscent of those that prevailed at the time of the Iraq war.

This is reminiscent of an army that, fearing defeat on the battlefield, poisons the wells as it retreats.

Factory conditions in parts of China are all too reminiscent of the early twentieth century, pre union US.

The author s bravado and eccentric use of language are reminiscent of a character in an Irvine Welsh novel.

Sit ins, reminiscent of the 18 days of January and February 2011 that ended Mubarak s rule, have already started.

The depravity is reminiscent of a violent gang rape in South Delhi that shocked the nation in December 2012.

The Israeli West Bank barrier has become a site for graffiti, reminiscent in this sense of the Berlin Wall.

U.S. Men's Archery Team member Brady Ellison has caused a storm on Twitter after images of him looking eerily similar to the Wolf of Wall Street star surfaced.

This, too, is reminiscent of Algeria in 1992, when most European governments supported the annulment of the Islamists electoral victory.

This is reminiscent of George Orwell's Animal Farm all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

Like certain other aspects of the US China economic relationship, China s adjustment is reminiscent of Japan with a 30 year lag.

In the Middle East, however, the outcome could be reminiscent of what followed the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan 36 years ago.

Derek Stout notes that author s bravado and eccentric use of language are reminiscent of a character in an Irvine Welsh novel.

Pressure on China today to push up the value of the yuan against the dollar is eerily similar to the pressure on Japan 30 years ago to make the yen appreciate.

Instead, they seem to want a solution reminiscent of nineteenth century Ireland which led to a century of casualties on both sides.

But the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 was a 1931 like event, highly reminiscent of the world of depression economics.

It is heart breaking to see our country being so brutally torn apart in a manner strikingly reminiscent of the apartheid days

More critically, public confidence in the electoral commission and the judiciary is once again falling, to levels reminiscent of those in 2007.

Instead, his behavior is reminiscent of a feudal district official whose main priority is to ensure that his superiors are treated with due reverence.

There is even reminiscent of Hermann Hesse s last novel, The Glass Bead Game an international body that audits the bodies that audit the auditors.

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 latest piece of ministry propaganda is somewhat reminiscent of the viral '100 Years of Beauty' series highlighting changes in women's fashion across different countries.

First, a naval blockade (reminiscent of the Cuban missile crisis) that halted both Iran s oil exports and imports of refined fuel would cripple the country s economy.

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.

And so I expected to walk into this building and be met with this cacophony of honking and braying and squawking, but instead, when we stepped through those doors and into the building, it was eerily silent.

This is disconcertingly reminiscent of the spring when Jean Claude Trichet, the ECB president, lashed out at a skeptical bond market and declared a Greek default unfathomable.

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 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.

Filmed before the era of Pixar, the iPod or the iPhone, there's something eerily prescient about the Lost Interview, as Jobs assesses what he sees other companies doing right and wrong, and offers his own vision of the future of computing.