Some analysts see similarities in their paths to primacy.
Gone are the battalions of tens of thousands of soldiers, torching everything in their paths.
Differences, yes, but Bill Tierney sees these teams as similar in their paths to success.
A wealthy few had cars, and they drove them ruthlessly, generally haranguing and disrupting the people in their paths.
The Midwest storms, unusually strong for October, left fallen trees, power failures and debris in their paths.
For the next nine hours, mobs of young men vandalized any cars and businesses in their paths.
For defending Olympic champions here, swimmers of all shapes, ages and nationalities have been obstinately standing in their paths.
But in large part, the bookshelf served to highlight New Yorkers' ability to ignore anything in their paths.
Someone will also have to ride herd over Russia's warring business clans, which are trying to devour one another and everything else in their paths.
But many overcame the obstacles in their paths, making it to college and charting paths as engineers, medical technicians and businessmen.
And every edifice and geographic landmark in their paths (save for a few sacred sites) is submerged, scorched or altogether shredded.
