Word: parallelling
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...When asked about Spencer’s role, Faust describes the vice president’s duties as so expansive that they parallel...
...child during the trip and hearing the teenagers discuss their impending conscription into the armed forces. (Israel requires men and women to serve time in the military upon reaching the age of majority.)Speaking before a crowd of about 100, the former president went on to draw a parallel between the indispensable contribution of the Israeli youths to their country and the responsibility of the graduating class to have a similar impact.“I really like how he was able to join a small event, an event for undergraduates, to the potential to really do something great...
...Speaking before a crowd of about 100, the former president went on to draw a parallel between the indispensable contribution of the Israeli youths to their country and the responsibility of the graduating class to have a similar impact...
...That textbook description of how an insurgency works was on show in the village we visited - a small collection of huts Deva and his unit of 130 men and women use as an occasional base as they constantly shift around the hills. There, as elsewhere, the Naxalites run a parallel administration, complete with tax collectors, a school and very basic health facilities. Late in the afternoon, seven women militants dressed in tunics and red sashes danced and sang for gathered villagers, preaching the benefits of Maoism, railing against exploitative mining companies and chanting about the evils of New Delhi. Dozens...
...likely nominees this year, Obama is closest to Carter in background and policy leanings. The parallels between his campaign so far and the one Carter ran in 1976 are striking. Like Carter, Obama had little national experience when he started to run. Neither was given much chance of winning the nomination. Instead of running on a detailed platform, Carter told crowds that what Washington needed was "a government as good as its people"-just as Obama promises "change we can believe in." Carter's message sold well after Richard Nixon's disgrace, and press accounts from the time suggest that...