Sentence examples for modern-day parallel from inspiring English sources

Modern-day parallel, anyone?

In a modern-day parallel plot expatriate American Ella Turner arrives in the area with her architect husband.

The supposed modern-day parallel?

In this latter book, Mr. Eppler observes that there really is no modern-day parallel to what Wilbur and Orville accomplished.

Another student saw a modern-day parallel in the genocide in Darfur and led efforts to raise $2,000 for Darfur schoolchildren by selling bracelets.

Andrew Odlyzko, who is researching a book on the topic, says that the railway mania may even help to explain why Britain did not succumb to the revolutionary fervour that swept Europe in 1848.The 1990s telecoms boom is the most obvious modern-day parallel to the railway mania.

Frequently, as you read Moore, the modern-day parallels make the hairs on the back of your neck stick up.

Neither inviting nor shying away from modern-day parallels, Han neatly unpacks the social and political catalysts behind the massacre and maps its lengthy, toxic fallout.

There are few modern-day parallels for someone like Biden — a man who has been considered a top-tier presidential candidate over such a long period, who almost always considers it and sometimes also runs.

At times not much appears to be happening, until you realize that the director's sidelong, subtle approach has teased out modern-day parallels to the issues that surrounded the Rivière case.

Essentially an Old Testament tale of an Israelite and a Philistine who love each other from childhood but are forced apart due to race and power politics, director Andreas Homoki doesn't force modern-day parallels.