Word: counterpart
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lightweight varsity boat, like its heavyweight counterpart, took the second podium spot after a close, aggressive race that again needed a photo finish to determine second and third place...
...although the WHRB of 1957 and its 2007 counterpart have a lot in common, some things have changed with time: the marathon bridge games that were a fixture of life inside the station in 1957 have turned into intense rounds of Risk, and the studio has moved to Pennypacker from its original home in Dudley Hall...
There is no shortage of ideas for improving No Child Left Behind. Senator Edward Kennedy, who chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and Congressman George Miller, Kennedy's counterpart in the House, are sorting through a mind-numbing number of proposals to address AYP's shortcomings, lackluster state standards, curriculum narrowing and remedies for failing schools as well as issues concerning the law's requirement for a "qualified teacher" in every classroom and other concerns...
...Thus, bringing up the question of class at this institution seems to run counter to our ostensibly meritocratic ethos. Everyone claims to foreswear social snobbery—and its counterpart, envy...
...occupied with the specter of war in the Middle East--this one precipitated by Egypt's decision to nationalize the Suez Canal. As troops from France and Britain geared up to attempt to take back the canal, Guy Mollet, France's Socialist Prime Minister, secretly presented his British counterpart Anthony Eden with a proposal: What if France and Britain became one country...