Sentence examples for has its parallel from inspiring English sources

This is not just ancient history since it has its parallel today.

Every road has its parallel, every spot its coordinate.

The lack of transparency isn't necessarily sinister, and has its parallel in other fields — in the world of food and wine, for instance.

The San Diego Zoo has its parallel Frozen Zoo, an archive of thousands of DNA samples and cell lines from a host of species.

Cage's 4 min 33 sec, the work which starts when the pianist raises the lid of the piano and finishes, without him having played a note, four minutes and 33 seconds later, has its parallel in Rauschenberg's white paintings.

That outstretched hand is a plea for mercy, a moment that has its parallel in Hitchcock's other film of 1954, "Rear Window," when the murderer (Raymond Burr) suddenly appears on the doorstep of the photographer (James Stewart) who has been spying on him and judging him.

And this, he adds, doesn't just alter the history of photography: this technological-intellectual jump, he says, has its parallels in the media today.

And they know that tithing has its parallels in other religious traditions, as well; in the zakat, for instance, the religious tax that is one of the five pillars of Islam, and in the alms-giving practices of Buddhism and Hinduism.

Referring to his speech in the Lords in a debate on the issue in 2012, he told the Daily Telegraph: "I finished with a piece of theology which said that the love between two people, whether the same sex or opposite sex, has its parallels with the love of God for the human race" – and found himself inundated with messages of support from gay campaigners as a result.

(Everything I have been saying here has its parallels in literature. There is, for example, Kafka's novel The Trial, which is lost in its own labyrinths.

Likewise, Amanullah and Huda (2012) report that condom use is rare with regular partners and with boyfriends, a situation that has its parallels all over the world.