Sentence examples for grim parallel from inspiring English sources

There is a grim parallel here with what is happening in the United States.

Another grim parallel is the refusal by leaders to take politically tough but economically necessary stands.

Indigenous activists such as Sue Caribou see a grim parallel between the casual neglect of the current foster care and the systematic abuse of the residential schools.

He wrings out a grim parallel between the murders of Rasputin and of Nicholas and Alexandra (shot in a basement, bodies burned).

She recalls reading a book on the Nazi seizure of power, and drawing grim parallels with what was happening to Labour.

Looking for grim parallels with the present moment, I recently went back and looked at how Mussolini's rise to power was reported.

But the outspoken, often abrasive P.I. isn't entirely fearless, and BLACKLIST (Putnam, $24.95) plays on her worst nightmare -- of being deprived of the right to sound off -- by drawing grim parallels between the repressive political climate of the McCarthy era and present-day threats to First Amendment freedoms in the name of national security.

Musically, Cabbage haven't alighted upon a new paradigm to match, say, the Mondays' squalid funk and scabrous disco, but new songs Necro Flat in the Palace and It's Grim Up North Korea, which draws parallels between British working-class life and Kim Jong-un's DPRK, indicate a move in the right direction, the latter evincing a degree of motorik propulsion.

One of its grimmer side-stories has a queasy contemporary parallel: in 1943 the Americans, to speed their invasion of the island, reinstalled and relegitimised the criminal gangs that had been more or less broken by Mussolini in the late 1920s.

One day in late February, the sort of grim, raw day when nothing north of the 18th parallel looks right, Ms. Holzer followed Mr. Widener to a selection of two-bedroom apartments at the Century.

A parallel myth is that her combined style and conviction drove the grim-faced leaders of Northern Ireland's political parties into signing the Belfast agreement.