Word: paralleling
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...Secondly, there's India's fitful, parallel struggle as a nation. As a mathematician, Suri is fond of symmetries, and India's political tumult - from bloody partition through to the difficult years of Indira Gandhi's Emergency - backdrops Meera's narrative in sometimes contrived, sometimes clever ways...
Sometimes, the propaganda appears even more starkly as if coming from a parallel reality. On Thursday, the junta announced the barely credible results of its referendum on a new constitution that would extend its hold on the country. The vote had been held in the cyclone's aftermath. More than 92% of voters supposedly said "yes," with a turnout of 99%. The plebiscite was delayed in Rangoon and the delta, but apparently the junta still expects the region's stricken people to vote on May 24. But the true sentiment of the country cannot be masked by propaganda...
...members of the ever-improving Ivies, this season has been a trying one for both the men’s and women’s lacrosse teams, whichin many ways have had parallel experiences...
...pantomime, physical comedy and athleticism. "People think our skating is eccentric. It's not so," Groebli told TIME during the pair's first U.S. tour, in 1939. "Any figure skater should be able to do a serious spread eagle"--in which he skates with his body bent backward nearly parallel to the ice--"asleep...
...From tilting against the U.S. in 2003 to challenging China now, is France becoming the world's default Don Quixote? Five years ago Paris flamboyantly opposed the war of the American "hyperpower" in Iraq; now it opposes human-rights violations committed in Tibet by tomorrow's superpower, China. The parallel undeniably flatters the French ego, since it suggests the supremacy of ethics over realpolitik in French diplomacy. But the reality is slightly more complex...