Sentence examples for historical equivalent from inspiring English sources

Was Matulka, you start to think, the art historical equivalent of space debris?

Then came World War II and the historical equivalent of continental drift.

In other words, Sept. 11 was the historical equivalent of a violent and unpredictable storm.

That would require a "rapid and far-reaching" transformation of the world's economy, one of such scale and magnitude that it has no historical equivalent.

But the fixations of the filmmakers – the private lives of the privileged – will turn her work into the historical equivalent of Hello! magazine.

THINK of the word "bluestocking" and you are likely to conjure up something female, formidable and frumpy a dingy corner of feminism, the historical equivalent of dungarees.

Though Bonds may be detached from his peers, he is not that different from some of his historical equivalents.

Some of the women gathered in Ms. Churchill's opening scene could, in a sense, be seen as the historical equivalents of the Carries and Mirandas and Samanthas of today: smart, successful women who questioned or challenged the traditional notions of women's roles and their relationships to men in their cultures.

The differences between this proposed bailout and the three closest historical equivalents are immense.

He is the first player to appear in the senior grade of both the NRL and the AFL (or their historical equivalents).

GameSpot said that with the screen full of units, "you can begin to imagine how their historical equivalents once prospered", while GameSpy said The Age of Kings presents "realism rarely seen in the RTS genre".