Sentence examples for the closest parallel from inspiring English sources

The closest parallel he finds is 1976.

"People often say to me that the closest parallel to today is the 1930s.

Oddly enough, Shanghai offers the closest parallel for the debate over the racecourse.

The closest parallel is Old Hanoi with its ochre-hued mansions, but that's almost gone.

The closest parallel is Mr. Morris's staging of Rameau's "Platée" in 2004, also at the New York State Theater.

The closest parallel is Nigeria, which is also struggling to build democracy and should eventually be given debt relief.

The closest parallel is probably Havana, another decaying former Spanish colony filled with ghosts and stories and heroes.

In Canada, the closest parallel to Corbyn's positive program, as well as its media vilification, has been the Leap Manifesto.

"The closest parallel would be the Tea Party with the Republicans" in the United States, he said.

But the closest parallel to Thursday's vote came at the start of the 105th Congress, in 1997.

The closest parallel I can think of is the bitter intraparty struggles of the 1920s, which pitted urban, often Catholic Democrats against Protestant farmers.