The phrase "a better parallel is" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to draw a comparison that is more fitting or relevant than a previous one.
Example: "In discussing the impact of climate change, a better parallel is the way we responded to the ozone layer depletion in the 1980s."
Alternatives: "a more fitting comparison is" or "a more appropriate analogy is".
But Markram argues that a better parallel is the Human Genome Project.
The state information agency, Russia Today, headlined its press conference on Mr Nemtsov's killing as "Murders of Politicians: the Methods of Maidan".Other analysts say a better parallel is not the Kirov murder, but the waves of political killings that swept through Latin American political dictatorships in the 1960s, or Italy in the late 1970s.
Bush saw himself as a latter-day Churchill — though there's an argument that the better parallel is Neville Chamberlain — and put his bust in the Oval Office, saying, "He watches my every move".
Perhaps the better parallel is Sarajevo 1914.
Maybe the better parallel is between Obama and Frank Robinson — in the managerial stage of his career, that is.
To my mind, a better parallel would be the Catholic Herald refusing to publish an anti-Catholic tirade.
I once compared it to William Allen White's Emporia Gazette, but a better parallel would be Dwight Macdonald's Politics, the irregularly published magazine that one of the mid-twentieth century's sharpest essayists put out from 1944 through 1949.
A better parallel may be with financial services: the City of London thrives on the back of an open market and international talent.The Premier League's main source of strength is its financial clout.
In reality a better parallel can be found in China's own totalitarian past.
But a better parallel exists, which should be getting more attention these days.
This case was always a better parallel than Microsoft to the F.T.C. investigation of Google.
