A few programming languages bear surface similarities to HyperTalk and were inspired by it.

But in spite of this surface similarity the grammar of the two is quite different.

Mr. Trump's television program and Google's initial stock sale have a few surface similarities.

But those were just our surface similarities.

But beyond attractive surface similarities, serious differences emerged soon after the merger was announced, according to executives in each company.

Those determined to find evil intent will, of course, focus on certain surface similarities between my passage and Hawthorne's.

However, behind this surface similarity lie the deeper conflicts and contradictions which have been illustrated earlier.

That said, the surface similarity to more familiar, Western European countries helped no end in terms of easing the children into a vastly different culture.

There are surface similarities but many more differences.

Despite the surface similarities, though, other analysts say the roots of Germany's problems are very different from Japan's.